citrus

it was a good day today. started out in santa cruz in the morning – woke up in the weirdly proportioned hotel room with way too much empty space – and colin went for a quick 5 mile run before we packed up and headed out for what was, upon reflection a way too big breakfast a zach’s. but i couldn’t resist a walk down tofu scramble memory lane.

we walked around uc santa cruz for a while, and as beautiful as it was, colin observed that he felt a little trapped by the enormous forest around him.

then we jumped in the car and drove down to cal poly. i don’t remember the drive down 101 being so scenic. it really was quite beautiful. we went straight to the campus and initially were struck by how small it seemed. almost like a high school campus. but then we parked, and spent about an hour wandering around on foot, stumbled across a little bit of activity on campus (a beach volleyball tournament, naturally) and saw some beautiful parts of the university, and well… by the time we were done, C was really quite smitten.

the tricky thing of course is that two of the university we have come to visit this weekend have issued him acceptance letters, the other two have put him on the wait list. cal poly is one of the wait list schools.

after checking in briefly at the hotel, we zipped over to avila beach to touch the ocean and lie in the sun for a bit, then had a substandard beach side restaurant lunch. (it’s odd how little appetite we’ve had on this trip. but not really any hunger related grumpiness either.) then one last stop in downtown SLO to check it out before heading back to crash at the hotel.

downtown was beautiful. and to top it all off, c stumbled across a hipster barber shop and got himself a new cut. “i’ve been blessed,” he keeps saying. that means he likes this cut a lot. 🙂

we keep being reminded of citrus on this trip. tangerine juice this a.m., a citrus marinated chicken breast sandwich yesterday, beautiful orange trees. the barber shop applied some kind of lemon/rosemary scented product to finish him off, and just now as we were getting ready for bed, the sop here in the hotel is some kind of citrus thing too.

it’s a sign, he claims. it feels like he’s enjoying the trip as much as i am.