Getting Wild at Wilder Ranch State Park

We ventured out to the coast this weekend since it was nice and sunny, but you'll notice in these photos we're still bundled up due to the wind. We hiked in Wilder Ranch State Park, picnicked on a beach, then went on a few kiddie rides on the boardwalk.

Daddy tried to take a nap on the beach, and Claire quickly took advantage of this and tried to crawl away.

Luckily, Mommy was awake and was able to stop her before she went into the raging ocean.

Along the hike, there was a large chunk of land missing. It created a nice horseshoe looking cove that was pretty. Because of this, we took a picture.

Later we found another smaller chunk of land that had fallen into the ocean. It was roped off, but that didn't stop us from getting a picture of it.

As we were hiking, a young woman thought it would be nice to take a picture of the "two of us". As she was taking the picture Daddy turned sideways and she was amazed to find, that there were actually three of us.

Once the hike was over, we headed to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk which actually has no more boards, just cement. During the late 80's they did some pretty extensive renovations and found it less expensive to maintain cement, but for the curious tourist, you can still observe some of the original boardwalk boards in an airtight glass case near the ticket booths for the rides.

Anyway, Claire enjoyed going on rides with both mamamama and dat (that's how Claire says our names).

Then we all played skeeball. Dat was arrogant and thought he would cleanup, but it turns out Mamamama has a secret past as a professional skeeballer, rolling two games in the mid 300's. You can see from the board above Mamamama's head, that 350 is a pretty darn good score. Claire also played too, but she got 0. Dat's score was somewhere in between the two of them.

Although Claire scored a 0, she was quite good at taking the coupons as they came out of the machines. And she was even able to keep up with all the tickets coming out when Mamamama was rolling her balls of fire.Claire and Mamamama also got to ride on the trucks. We debated about it for a while, but we were pretty sure that Pepsi was sponsoring the ride.

Claire was so tired she didn't mind sleeping with a puppy wrapped around her head the whole way home.

Until next weekend, or until Claire does something exciting again, toodles and good luck with all of your ventures, especially if you are a venture capitalist. And if you just like going on adventures, we hope you capitalize on your adventures even when your venture to Ventura.