home away from home

 

I have a special place in my heart for the beach, ALWAYS! Even though Steve despises that place. Can you imagine not enjoying the beach? Well it's true folks, he is not a fan. He said that mostly it's the sand that gets him, he hates the stuff. But I'm thinking that when we went on our first "major" road trip as a married couple and I made him come swim in the ocean with me....while seaguls demolished our beach towels and lunch (let's just say POOP was everywhere)...did not help my cause. Oh that or the other time that I made him get in with me and his wedding ring went flying off his finger never to be seen again!

I am bound and determined to get Katy to like the beach, although I'm pretty sure I'm not going to have to even try at all! She had a blast. But that is not where our story today takes us....

We got to carmel pretty late. Let's just say that after getting stuck in traffic, and having the Davis's getting backed into...we were ready to get there. Oh but that is not the best part of the story. You see their car completely died on the way to California in Reno (that may actually be the armpit of America....sorry) of all places and they were in a rental car. Lucliky no damage was done and we arrived safely.

Also of note was how we kicked this trip off. Michelle made the BEST fish tacos and pretty much had them almost waiting for us when we arrived. After driving for a bit they really hit the spot. She also had another one of my favorites, pineapple. I didnt think much of it and fed some to Will, until I started to think that his stomach probably was not going to like it. Well we were cleaning up dinner and lo and behold Will was under the table eating all the dropped pieces of pineapple. He woke up crying that night pretty early in the morning and had thrown up and had a blowout. Poor kido! He continued having pineapple blowouts the whole trip. Which made church interesting!

After church and lunch we headed down to the main house (we all stayed in the guest house down the street). Jon and Michelle cooked this whole trip up because Jon's grandparents have a house there in Carmel. Yes that is right, Grandpa is currently living in Utah...so for the most part this sit's empty.

It was beautiful. If I remember correctly it sits on 9 acres pretty much in the pebble beach subdivision. We had a hard time getting there because there was a golf tournament going on that day, and everyone wanted to see if we had "clearance" to get to the house.

Jon gave us a tour and we had fun exploring the property. When we made it back to the house most everyone ended up taking a nap. When Jon and Johnny were the only ones up they decided to head down to the golf course to see if they could get in. Johnny is a big fan. I think Jane said he even records golf to catch up on later if he has to miss it, so you can imagine how exciting it was when they got in! Jon said the key is to just act like you belong there.

After they got back and we had dinner we headed down to the beach to explore the tide pools.

As you can imagine, our evening was pretty stellar! Katy was not a huge fan of the tide pools once she discovered they have crabs in them! But she did love the water and the ocean. I'm also suprised at the fact that Will did not totally stuff his face with sand. Mostly he was just trying to figure out what the stuff is. It was the perfect way to end our first day in Carmel.