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After watching Black Panther on opening night with literally every POC Jon and I know in the 831, we ended up at Los Pericos for dinner. Insider tip: it was not hard to get seats for Black Panther in Capitola.

lol.

Anyway, this post is about Los Pericos because everyone already knows about Black Panther. What people do not know is that this Mexican place was so sympathetic to my second trimester urges, that they made carne asada fries for me for $6. And then I took home a whole plastic bag filled with their fresh tortilla chips and ate everything as a pre-dinner snack.

Los Pericos is located at 139 Water St. at the edge of downtown. For the most part, Jon and I order their tacos (carne asada, al pastor, and lengua) or their super burritos (carne asada, al pastor, or fish). Though in the above picture, Jon's friend ordered the Molcajete, which was featured on an 8.5" x 11" color printed picture scotch taped to the soda dispenser. Strategic!

Other highlights include a free salsa bar, a mini parking lot in a sea of metered parking, and huge portions. It is one of the only places we go when we eat out and on this particular night, it was a fun little reminder that colonizers can't take away created places of belonging. Yes, I believe I belong with the lengua.

Jon and I are counting down the weekends we have before the baby comes, so today we went to Monterey for a quick day trip. I'm a very big girl right now, so we were hella efficient and spent most of the day at the public library #lit. (literally.)

Our first stop was Compagno's Market and Deli, a local sandwich shop with excessive military decor?  It was delicious and seriously the whole sandwich is such a good deal- $12.50 for a sandwich the size of a large take out tray. No really look at the picture of Jon eating the sandwich. It required two hands to hold HALF of the sandwich. He is eating the other half for dinner as I type this.

Second, we went to Revival Ice Cream because that is what I have wanted to do for almost two years. We got Rose Tea (with cream cheese and white chocolate) and the Bee's Knees (burnt honey, bee pollen, beeswax, and honeycomb candy) in a waffle cone and it was perfect. Other flavors included: Apple Miso, Eucalyptus Mint, and some coconut milk flavor with lots of herbs.

After that, we just hung out at the Monterey public library (the first public library in California! Did you know!?) It was a great library- the clientele was mostly very old and the one guy at the table next to us typed with so much strength, I couldn't stop laughing.

Anyway, we dropped by a few places to pick up groceries- the Wharf Marketplace and one of those "10 artichokes for a dollar!" stands on the side of Highway 1, spending the rest of the drive home brainstorming names for our baby boy.

I am going to miss days like this one when we become a family of three!!

JON AND I ARE ON A ROLL WITH DATE NIGHTS. Sure, we had Shin Ramen Black for dinner not that long ago, but here we are! Out. AGAIN!

Jon and I were excited to check out Cremer House in Felton, and Santa Cruz Restaurant Week gave us an excuse to finally do so. First of all, I really liked their cute little salt and pepper shakers. They were very small.

Also, the food was fantastic. Restaurant week highlights a prix fixe menu at dozens of Santa Cruz eateries, and this one was only $25! I ordered the grilled pear salad and the seared diver scallops with celery root puree and root beer gastrique. What? Jon got the burrata salad and porter beer braised short rib. OOH the DESSERTS were the best. Jon got the salted pretzel bread pudding with pomegranate cider caramel and blackberry jam.. but I GOT THE ROOT BEER FLOAT.

It was perfect.

Oh shoot haha you know what else happened recently? Craigslist adventures. Last week, I found a $10 shelf that is perfect for our pantry. Little did I know that it was located in the hills of Bonny Doon. It was hella dark, the roads were NOT paved, we almost hit TREES AND ROCKS, and I've never heard Jon so sincerely say that he loved me and was glad that we got a chance to know each other. On another night, I found a woman selling 90's Star Wars Legos and took Jon and he made me talk to this woman for like 30 minutes while he squatted over a cardboard box "making sure all the pieces were there." Then we gave her $150 and when we got home Jon was like "I think it's missing pieces." and he was sad.

Speaking of sad things Jon does with Legos, on Sunday I was exhausted and during my nap, Jon thought it was a great idea to sort all his Legos. He just kept pouring them out, mixing them around, dropping them on other piles of Legos. Why, Jon.

Well that about describes our life right now.

A few details (about Cremer House. Not Jon's Legos)

• Cremer House is located on 6256 Highway 9 in Felton, CA. (next to the New Leaf!)
• The building has been around since 1874! It's such a beautiful piece of downtown Felton history.
• They serve tons of craft beers, ciders, wines, house made sodas, AND THAT ROOT BEER IS BOMB.