Wow this trip was so fun :) It was so nice to get away for a little while :D

We started off early bah! ><>Super duper mad great driving skills got us through safe and sound :) We arrived at Monterey at 10:00am :) We walked around the various shops and such, there was a shop with random antique-ish stuff and there were a couple of machines things LoL like there was one of a slot machine that spits out coins that had monterey on it and a small picture pretty cool (regardless if you get a combo or not :D ) and there was also a machine that you squeezed the handle and it had various qualities about a person, Kyle took it and it said "naughty" hm...LoL...just hm...we got a few laughs out of that. Charlie had fun in the candy store and bought a lot of taffy's :) uhm....Oh then as we were walking by one of the shops there was a restaurant giving out free samples of their clam chowdah (us, being asian, we snached them up :D ) but they were actually really really good, so it was nearly lunch time and we decided to eat there :) Kyle, Chrissy, Janice and I all had the same thing, (clam chowdah in a breadbowl), Charlie had fruit and clam chowdah, tiff had calimari, benny had a chicken sandwich. We didn't eat in the section with the view, but the restaurant was still in a location with lots of windows that we could look out and get a cheap view :D

Then we went to the beach :) None of us went full dive in, but we all kinda a waded as the tide went in and out, everything there is by meters so we only stayed for an hour an 15 minutes. That was enough :) it was kinda chilly, but at least the sun was out and all bright. :)

After that, we went to go check out the hotel, it was really new and the rooms were nice and clean :) It would have been nice to stay an extra night, but oh well ;( We all kinda mooshed in one room anyways for most of the time. It was a bit bizarre though, the mirror and sink were outside of the bathroom, but it was all good, the toilets had like SUPER flushing ability LoL...:)

So once we dumped our stuff off, we decided to go shopping and the shopping center was called the "Del Monte Shopping Center" but is conviently not located on delmonte road/street/whatever LoL So we stopped by a holiday inn and asked for directions, and shortly after, we arrived at the open air mall. Since it was a sunday, most of the stores closed at 5ish but some of the big ones closed at 6 or 7. Tiffany, Chrissy and I all bought stuff from the Gap (WHOO go $7 shirt :D) and Janice bought stuff from victoria secret (sexy stuff for the buff!) and the guys went to EB games and Waldenbooks (what neeeeeerds :D ) They were having fun with their math and logical game books LoL we hung out there until closing and then Lunch was big so we didn't really want dinner then and there so we went back to the hotel.

Then we brought out the Cranium :D LoL that is the greatest game ever. As usual, the girls won :D whoot!!! Go Chrissy for her cameo/humdingers (leave it to beaver!), Go Janice for her drawings and freaking great spelling abilities, Go Tiffany for her overall greatness and especially in the data head parts. Anyways as usual we also had a wager, that whoever lost would have to go get dinner. :D The boys went out and got jack-in-the-box and we cleaned up. The jack-in-the-box pannido which was really good :) We watched some of the olympics, (mens swimming and womens gymastics) yeah, so we kinda just hung out and were really boring LoL :D

Tiff was really tired after a day of driving and stuff so at midnight, her and benny went up to the other room and got some sleep, the rest of us just hung out and picked on charlie LoL cause dang that's fun and easy :) LoL I think at like 12:45 or one ish, we kinda started winding down and got ready to go to sleep LoL per usual Chrissy was the first one out LoL :D The rest of us mostly slept by 4:00am :D but gah, for those of you who don't know, if it doesn't say on the package, "caffene free" then midol had caffene in it LoL I didn't realize this, until I was wide awake at 5:00am and then 6:45 and 7:30am LoL...it kinda sucked...i was just like...totally up. it was bizarre. when most of us got up, we turned on the tv and watched the end of Austin Powers Goldmember. And by that time it was like 9:45 so we got ready to pack up and make sure we didn't leave anything since check out time was 11:00am We cleaned out, and then went to Denny's for breakfast.

Then we headed out to the 17 Mile Drive and omg. there were just SO many rich people there! we used the restrooms at one of the resorts there and in that parking lot there were so many ferrarri's, lamborghinis, roles royces! omg. it was just WOW. along the drive, there were so many "houses" i put houses in quotes because some of them were more like mansions! it's just OMG! it was amazing how much wealth some people have. We stopped at a small lighthouse, and walked through it, it was kinda cool. We made a couple of stops on the road, but for the most part, we just drove by and admired from the car. Then at the end we went to Carmel but the weather was kinda sucky and really overcast near sprinkling at times. We just went into all the small shops and stuff, some of us bought candy at this candy import store. (Mia if you're reading this, me and my friend bought a pack of smarties...uhm yeah they're just M&M's with a harder shell...it wasn't exactly worth it for a $2.00 box of M&M's LoL)

After shopping and stuff, we needed to go back anyways, so we headed out of Carmel and started home, charlie bought the game "rush hour" so they were playing that in the car, we tried one of them, but it was hard, so we decided to forget it and sleep LoL, then we stopped at Applebee's for dinner in gilroy. I had a half sized oriental chicken salad which was perfect since I wasn't that hungry really. :D yeah, so then after we went shopping, I didn't buy anything, but they went into the gap and the billabong outlet, and claire's...yeah...then we left at like 8 something, and we got back to SL at 9:45 or something, and I got back home at 10...overall this was a super great trip :D super duper. LoL :) it definitely should be a tradition :D