Mother's Day in Monterey

Last Thursday we headed down to Monterey to celebrate Mother's Day. Our first afternoon there we went to Dennis the Menace park. Sophia had a great time, but we didn't take a lot of pictures. The next morning we had a wonderful breakfast and then went to the aquarium. Here's Sophia communing with the sea turtles:

The turtles were surprisingly interested in the people that were looking at them. Maybe they thought we had food... or that we'd let them out. Later, after lunch and a nap, we headed to the beach for a while. It wasn't a long walk from our hotel, but it was SO windy. I had mistakenly packed for the weather we had last year (warm and wonderful) and didn't bring a lot of warm clothing. However I did bring jeans and a sweater for the evenings. This is how I realized that Sophia needs new jeans - hers are all high-waters. Oh well, I don't think anyone noticed except me.

I think it is kind of funny to be wearing jeans and long sleeves at the beach, but at least we weren't freezing. It was funnier to see some teenage girls wearing swimsuits and running into the cold waves. Sophia didn't care what she was wearing. She enjoyed looking for rocks, shoveling sand into her bucket, and knocking down Daddy's sand castles.

Overall I had a very nice Mother's Day trip. If it was warmer, I would have liked to stay for the whole week. Since it was sweatshirt and jeans weather, a couple days suited me just fine.