Friday, June 23, 2006

New House Time



We have been extremely busy the last couple of days getting ready to move out of our small hotel room into our big house (2100 square feet!) You may notice the iron wrought bars on the doors and windows as appparently the old lady who used to live in the house before us was a touch paranoid. Still, it certainly gives us that extra secure feeling and even allows us to leave our windows open while we are gone.

It has been very warm for Monterey the last couple of days, with temperatures reaching 79 degrees! After moving stuff around in our house all day, Misty and I adjusted our thermostat to turn the air conditioner on. We were a little worried when only warm air came out of the vents, so I called the landlord who said most people on the penninsula do not have air conditioning because of how cool it normally is and that opening the windows typically cools the house down. So, we ran to the store and bought some industrial strength fans, but we are told that we will not need them very often.


This is our palm tree in our front yard. Its a mini-palm tree, but we like it anyway. We call it, "Little Fella". We'll send more pics of the house when we have our stuff in it.

Well, we won't have an internet connection again until a week from now, so there won't be any more updates until then. However, once that is all set up, we should have a lot to show you so come back then!




Sunday, June 18, 2006

A Day At The Beach

We will never get tired of the ocean!



Yesterday, we spent the day at a beach in Seaside and at the Dennis the Menace park. Poor Misty got a really sunburned nose. It stays
about sixty degrees here with a wind, so the coolness can make you forget about sunscreen.









The kids really enjoy sifting through the sand for buried treasures or funny looking beach creatures such as hermit crabs. When sifting through the sand or peering through tide pools, they take great pleasure in making a new discovery that no one else in the family has found before.



After having fun at the beach, we went to a childhood favorite of Misty's - the Dennis the Menace Park! The park features a locomotive for the kids to play on, a rock climbing wall, a bush maze and lots of new friends to meet. Casey has a natural ability to make friends effortlessly and quickly. Misty and I have no idea where he gets that from since we are so natually anti-social.







Friday, June 16, 2006

We made it to Monterey!


I thought I would try using the blog format this time to decide if it is better to do this or use snapfish.com. Let me know what you prefer. Feel free to pass the link on to anyone you think would care.

First, some pics from our trip here. Before our vehicle misfortune, we had a great time at Six Flags in Denver, CO.

Notice Wonder Woman waving from up above.



We then had an unfortunate vehicle incident and no one was in the mood to take any more pictures until we got to Monterey and started having fun again.

Today, we went to the Rocky Beach!




Notice the little monkey hiding behind a rock on the right!





Our beautiful girl.





Casey always makes friends quickly!


More to come and maybe I will even get good enough at this blog thing to make it look nicer next time!