Boardwalk: Santa Cruz

On July 12, 2014 our family went on a trip to Boardwalk, a beach in Santa Cruz. During our prior visit, on July 6, we only stayed at the beach; we did not go on the rides. But this time we went for a longer time and we spent most of our time on the rides. The rides we went on were the "FreeFall" in which you sit down on a seat and they elevate you. Then they suddenly drop you down. But there was an even larger version of it and it wasn't even scary. It was barely 20 feet tall, but people were screaming. This was the least scary 'scary ride' I have ever been on. We also went on the "Train Adventure". It was a small kiddie ride in which there were weird animated statues doing things. It was dark and there was light that looked like Ultraviolet light. But I wasn't too disappointed when we came out of the train. My next favorite ride was the "Pirate Ship". There was a ship that was swinging back and forth very high. It was scary, but a fun kind of scary. My mom kept insisting that I was scared, but I was not. Actually, my mom was so scared that she was screaming right from the start, but I asked her to stop. If you actually try to ride the wind, you do not feel scary, but if you don't, you feel a tingling feeling in your core. Next my favorite ride, the "Speedbumps" In this, you and someone else got into a car. Then you drive around the track. There are lots of cars, so you have to bump other cars and try to go ahead of them. I was the driver and my brother was sitting next to me. After that we played in a shallow area of the beach where there were no waves. I even went swimming. This experience of the beach was much more fun than the last time.