Anniversary Trip

This last weekend was our planned one your anniversary trip. On Thursday we both took the day off and headed to Monterey. Friday morning we ate breakfast at our hotels resteraunt and watched the otters out in the ocean while we ate. Then we headed to the aquarium at the bay on Friday. We were able to see a lot of it before it got to crowded. They had a special sea horse exhibit open and they have a huge jelly fish exhibit. There were also a lot of otters and seals, and we got to watch the penguin feeding.

Monterey Slideshow 103 pics

After the aquarium we ended up going to see an X-games 3-D show at the theater that we had seen previews for on TV the night before. It was pretty cool.

On Saturday we did the 17 mile drive around Pebble Beach. After that we headed down the coast on the 1 to Pismo. We got there in the late afternoon and it was rainy, so we ate at the Marie Calendar's and then checked into our hotel room and relaxed most of the rest of the day.

17 Mile Drive, Drive to Pismo Slideshow

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Sunday we had a rental set up with Sun Fun Buggies at 11, so we headed to their shop. This turned out to be the biggest pain during the trip. When we got to the shop at 10:15 the sign on the door said closed though their hours were starting at 9 - we called the phone # and they said they were going to pick us up at the hotel - this was never mentioned to us when making the reservation (thank goodness they didn't), but we had already checked out so we drove ourselves over to the beach - having to call them 3 different times to get directions that were different every time :(. Finally we got to the beach and one of them came and picked us up and took us out to their staging area. We got out there (~1.5 mile drive) and got ready to rent, only to find out they didn't have our reservation info (made over a week before). To make an already long story shorter we ended up walking over to the business next to them and renting a 2-up atv for the same amount of time for half the price, win. The thing that made me really glad about this later was seeing at least 3-5 of the buggies stuck in the dunes and one having to be towed back to the trailers. The atv was great and we had a blast riding all over the dunes. The people we rented the atv from (http://stevesatv.com/) were nice enough to give us a ride back to the car after our rental was over and we headed on home down the 1. A few spots of bad traffic adding nearly 2 hours to the drive home was the only bad thing after that.

That was our weekend, and if you watched the slide shows it was about 1/3 of the pictures.

Happiest Place on Earth

The weekend before last, Angela and I both got eye exams on Friday, got some new trial contacts and ordered new glasses. Then we headed down to Anaheim for the weekend. One of my friends (Thanks Matt!!) had gotten 3-day park hopper passes for Disney Land/California Adventure and only used 2 of the days, it was a nice anniversary present. So we spent the Saturday all over Disney Land, we got there when the gates opened at 8 am and left the park at midnight. We stayed in a hotel that was about 4 blocks away, so we didn't have to worry about parking or anything.

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This is what you want to do when you live in the desert. I was just glad that it cooled into the double digits this weekend so that I didn't fry while watching some of the race. The race was only full size ish vehicles from stock Volkswagon Beatles to large trucks and buggies that probably ran in the 6-700 horsepower range. They ran 3-5 (class dependent) laps of 44 miles each. The race started at about 7:30 pm, I think we left around 10 or 11.

Friday I went riding, its been so long that the battery had gone dead on the Pred and I had to go get a new one. Bouncing across the desert also made for sore arms for 3 days - not to bad though.

We also saw GI Joe this weekend at the theater, I thought it was good, but I hear the critics are giving harsh reviews. Umm...thats really all I have for now.