We did have one last little fun trip up to San Luis Obispo but this time I was the one doing the working! I had the opportunity to train a Pediatric Dentist office. I was a little hesitant to go out of town since we left 2 days after getting back from our Family Reunion and celebrating Chris' birthday it was a wirlwind! Not to mention 2 days after we returned, Maddie started school! I thought what the heck lets just have one last hoo-rah of the Summer. The shoe was on the other foot now and I worked two full 8 hour days while Chris played with the kids all day.
The night we arrived it was late and we carried the kids in to bed. Sawyer woke up in the middle of the night and decided to play with his poop and got it all over the bedding in the crib and his P.J.'s (This is a daily occurrence in our household for the last 6 weeks). The next morning he woke up before all of us, climbed out of his crib and played with his poop again and got it all over the white bed spread on our bed! So our trip got of to a great start. (Luckily Chris was able to smooth it over with the Housekeepers by speaking to them in Spanish!)
The first day of training couldn't have gone better, then when Chris came to pick me up, he said, "I'm so sorry honey... something bad happened" I started to panic and looked at Carter and his lip was HUGE and cut open. He had been jumping from the couch to the coffee table in our Hotel room and he hit his mouth on the table. His top teeth had been bleeding so I rushed him in to see the dentist and he took a look at them. He told me just to watch them but did recommend that he get a stitch on his lip. So we took him to Urgent Care and spent a few hours there. Carter was so brave he didn't even shed a tear. After we got out of there it was 8 by then and we were starving. Chris had waited in the car with the DVD player running for Sawyer, and the battery was dead! (Those things really drain the battery) We called AAA and they were supposedly on there way. Someone finally showed up around 9:30 and then we went to dinner. After that we headed over to the Laundromat to wash Sawyer's poopy blankets and clothes. What an exhausting day! Poor Chris felt so bad about what happened and kept worrying the rest of the trip that the kids were going to get hurt.
Luckily the next day went very smoothly.
After Chris picked me up we went to F. McClintocks in Shell Beach. It is a really cool restaurant where they cook everything over a wood pit. The food is sooo good. They also pour your water really cool too. I didn't get any pictures of that though.
Here is my yummy steak, it was at least 3 inches tall, a true baseball cut!
The next morning we got up and drove to Monterey (about 2 hours) and went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was so much fun. Chris has been wanting to take the kids there for a long time and we were so glad we did. They just loved it! It was hard to get good pictures but here are a few. My favorite thing was the Jelly fish, they were so stunning! There were so many different kinds. They had these little tiny ones that look like little umbrellas. The kids loved the Otters. We walked down Cannery row and had lunch at "El Torito" right on the ocean, it was so cool! Later that evening we drove down to Paso Robles to spend the night and the next morning we went home! Other than the first day our trip was a ton of fun and we really enjoyed spending time with the kids before school started!
