Happy 4 Months Phoebe!

Yesterday Phoebe turned four months old - where does the time go?!  To celebrate we spent the day in Santa Cruz at Day by the Bay.  Day by the Bay is part of the alumni weekend celebration at UCSC (where Jeremy goes to school).  There are a bunch of campus and local organizations that set up on one of the big fields and everything is open to the public.  One of our favorite stops was the food court - although it wasn't very balanced.  You had your choice of 3 different wineries, 2 different microbreweries, 3 different cookie shops, ice cream sundaes, corn dogs and garlic fries.  So basically, it was the perfect lunch :)  We all sampled various beverages, split a few orders of garlic fries, and then Jeremy (in the name of science) made sure to sample cookies from each of the different bakeries in order to figure out which was the best. 

We drove up to Santa Cruz with our friend Leslie after a quick stop for sunscreen and Frappuccinos.  Once we got there, we met our friends Geoff and Kristen and their little boy.  A little later, we met up with our friends Sathya and Noga for some real dinner.  I'm not saying that the booze and cookie food court wasn't great and all - but we figured that at some point we needed some actual sustenance.  To set a good example.  For the children. 

Between Day at the Bay and dinner, we wandered around downtown Santa Cruz.  I really like Santa Cruz!  It reminds me a lot of Ann Arbor, only bigger.  The UCSC campus itself is beautiful!  I don't know how any of the students there ever get any work done.  Before we left, we charged up the camera and I intended to take a ton of pictures.  We ended up having so much fun, we just kept forgetting to take out the camera.  From our big day of fun we have a total of ONE picture

That is Phoebe, me and Sammy the Banana Slug, the UCSC mascot (yes, Jeremy is officially a banana slug!).  I was pretty excited to get our picture taken with Sammy, but you can see that Phoebe is less than thrilled.  It looks a little bit like she is scoping out the crowd for some potential new parents.  Maybe ones that won't totally embarrass her by making her get her picture taken with a giant banana slug.  Sorry pumkin!