trip: part two

On this particular day of our trip, we started the day with a tasty and very filling breakfast at our hotel and went for a walk around the gardens at our hotel in Cambria and visited their nursery, which my mom would have loved. Then we headed up the coast on our way to Monterey. So this day was just mostly devoted to taking our time on this stretch of highway 1 and enjoying the views. We stopped at this one beach that was covered with literally hundreds of elephant seals, and we saw Hearst Castle from afar. We would have loved to take a tour, but we figured that that would not be a good idea for Alyssa right now or for anyone else on the tour. Its very unlikely that she would be quiet for a 45 minute guided tour; so maybe when she's a little older. We drove the very scenic and windy stretch of Big Sur, finally ending in Monterey. We checked into our cute, but very small hotel room in Pacific Grove, where we would be staying for the next two nights, and headed to a local seafood restaurant recommended by the guy at the front desk. It turned out to be a very good recommendation, and we even had time to take a drive around town before it got too dark and found another awesome playground for Alyssa. It was a very unique playground called the Dennis the Mennis playground with long curvy slides, tunnels, climbing wall, a real train you could climb on and more. Alyssa had a blast, and so did daddy.