Santa Cruz

A couple of Saturdays ago we decided to take a day trip down to Santa Cruz to spend some time at the beach and let Hannah see the ocean for the first time. The drive down and back wasn't very pleasant. The road was windy and there was stop and go traffic during parts of the drive which made Hannah very car sick. We had to stop a few times to clean up vomit and to let Hannah walk around and get some fresh air. Once we arrived at the beach everything was much better and we had a lot of fun!

Hannah walking in the sand for the first time:
She liked walking out into the water and one of the first times out there she tripped and fell face first into the sand. Here is Brian rescuing her:
Here's a close up shot after some of the sand was cleaned off:
She didn't mind too much. She wanted to go right back to the water:
Some kids dug a hole and Hannah wanted to play in it:
Hannah didn't want us to hold on to her but we wanted to make sure we had her when the waves came. In this picture she is trying to pull her arm away from me:
Hannah liked watching and following this little girl:
It was a really hot day so we went and bought a slush puppy. Hannah enjoyed eating it and playing with the straw:
We recorded Hannah playing on the beach with our camcorder and I wanted to post some clips from that but we're having trouble getting our videos on to the computer. If we can get it figured out I'll add some video clips later.