He left a poop at Rotten Robbie's

Morning and a forecast of rain found us heading out to San Jose to the Tech Museum (free with our reciprocal MOS pass), and we lucked out as downtown San Jose still had Christmas Town up - tons of X-Mas trees on white felt that looked like dirty driven snow. The museum itself was nice and had a good number of decent exhibits, which says a lot after just having been to the Exploratorium. Would have been great if not for the $20 parking in downtown SJ.

After lunch, we headed out to take Kieran to see the Tales of Despereaux, which was very cute. So many different story lines, but sweet. Akira slept through most of it (amazing the number of things we've pulled of this week while the kid(s) were napping.

By the time we got out at 3:30, there were huge patches of blue sky and fabulous cloud formations, and just as we got on the highway and saw signs for Santa Cruz (also 35-40 minutes away), we both got the same idea and decided to head there for sunset. We arrived down at the shoreline on West Cliff Bvld to see a bunch of surfers taking advantage of the last waves of the day. It was amazing as we huddled together at the top of the cliffs in 45 degree weather to see the surfers hanging out in the water. I don't care how thick the wetsuit is, you've got to be crazy or young to go sit on a board and get soaking wet in January. True enough, those that came out of the water were in there late teens... The sunset was beautiful and lovely as sunsets are.

We had dinner on the Santa Cruz pier with an old CA girlfriend of mine, and then headed back into town, when Kieran suddenly announced his burning need, and with a grimace and a pre-stunk gas station restroom, he left something behind.