I had off for a week in February, so Eric and I decided to travel out and visit Amanda and Josh Dishmon in Monterey, CA. We haven't seen them since last August. We made a road trip out of our week.
We started by driving down to Philly and stayed the night with our friends, Bridget and Jake. After a nice breakfast on Saturday we took a plane out to CA. We stayed with Amanda and Josh for 6 days, Saturday to Thursday. While in California it rained almost everyday except the last two days, but we made the best of it. We took two trips to Big Sur. We went to Pacific Grove and mainly spent time visiting with Amanda and Josh. Of course Amanda and I were able to do some baby shopping, that is always fun! It was great to visit with them. I told Amanda I was actually glad it rained a lot, that way we could just relax and spend time with them. Eric and I miss them both very much!
Here are some pictures from out trip:
As we drove down Rt. 1 in Big Sur was watched storm come across that the Pacific ocean. It was beautiful, but we didn't want to be out in the rain when it hit. 
This is a foggy, rainy picture of the coastline. 
Julia Pfeiffer State Park's waterfall was brown from all the mud, due to the rain. 
After all the rain passed we went to a Monarch Butterfly Farm/ winter pit stop. We were supposed to see thousands. We only saw one, but he posed for us nicely!
He even showed off all his colors for us. 
We did, however, see a lot of CA deer. They do look different than the east coast deer. 
There was an entire herd. 
The sun hit this lilly perfectly!
The following are some of the views we saw of Rt.1 the second time we went. 
On our way back to Monterey we noticed that the mountains off in the distance are snow covered. It was in the 60s along the coast and snow covered mountains in the distance. So Cool!
This is the Monterey Bay Marina: 
A picture of the boys in the Pacific Grove Natural Museum. 
and enjoying Jamba Juice.
I took this shot of Amanda and Eric looking over the Monterey Bay. Amanda was weirded out by this picture because she thought it looked like they were a couple. So she took a picture of Eric and I...
Here is Amanda's picture of Eric and I.
I love this shot of Amanda and I!
Cute picture of Amanda, Adah and I!
The last night we were there we went to the beach and watched a beautiful sunset! This is a sweet picture of Amanda and Josh!
I loved this picture of Eric.
Eric and Josh went and explored the rocks. Every time they found a pool to look through they each took their "pose" - Eric bending at the waist and Josh squatting.
