Santa Cruz

We spent the next day doing the thing we love the most, Outlet shopping. We headed down to the Great Mall of the Bay Area which is south of San Fran, and on our way to Santa Cruz.

We spent a couple of hours perusing the fine stores, and purchasing discounted goods, until we found that we had had enough. Interestingly we did not have a map. so we took the long route down to Santa Cruz, as we couldn't find the short one... (it was lovely and scenic though so we coped. i think the problem was that Tony was focusing on the new shoes he brought and not the road!)

Santa Cruz was ok, I guess we were expecting another Clearwater Beach, and this was not that. We went for a walk and had a nice dinner on the pier over looking the harbour.

The next day we decided it was time to head up to San Fran itself and Tony wanted to try and gate crash the Apple announcement of the new Macbooks, so with detailed maps in hand, we headed for the mythical Silicon Valley