During the boys’ fall break, we decided to take a short trip to a nearby beach town. It was a good timing to get away as it was still quite hot with poor air in San Jose. We found these cottages that would take doggies and it seemed safer to avoid much public areas with our own cottage. We arrived on Thursday first to near Monterey; we walked around the coast and later found a pizza joint to have lunch. Afterward we could finally check in to the cottage. We had one of the smallest units but it was plentiful for us. It did have an unusually short entrance door that Stuart had to be careful. We loved having a private backyard to ourselves. Buddy also liked the large common courtyard in the center for all the doggies to walk around.
After a much needed break for TV and game time, we walked over to the Asilomar Beach. Stuart and I had spent time in the Asilomar conference ground before and thus it was nice to reminisce the beautiful ground while walking through it. Then we arrived to the beach and we were surprised by how soft and wonderful the sand was. The weather was perfect and thus the boys and I spent a long time playing with sand and at the water. Buddy was having a good time walking along the coastline with Stuart; he would love to be let free like some dogs there, but we were not ready for it yet. After a couple hours of playtime and a good shower, we ordered takeout from the local Fishwife. It was very relaxing to hang out in our cottage the rest of the night.
On Friday the air quality was not too good in the morning, thus we decided to hang out in the room just as what the boys loved to do. I did take Buddy out to walk all around the Asilomar conference ground and remember about the day when I went for a conference. Before lunch time, we headed out to Carmel. It was unusually warm and sunny that day. We walked around downtown and finally found a good place to stop to have lunch; Buddy was happy to rest in the shade and had some iced water served by the waitress. Next we spent an hour at the Carmel Beach as we were not as prepared for a long outing. We liked the Carmel Beach as well; there were even more doggies being free there and Buddy loved watching them.
After our usual afternoon breaktime in the cottage, we walked back to Asilomar beach. This time we stayed until after sunset and it was another awesome fun time at the beach. Connor loved bossing us around building cities with sand; Logan had a good time building and playing with water despite the fact he sometimes told us that he does not like getting dirty at the beach. I did take turns walking Buddy with Stuart, and I also enjoyed taking pictures of the sunset as well. We finally had to say bye to the beach and headed back. Since the food was so great plus we were tired and lazy, we ordered again at Fishwife for its close proximity and enjoyed another wonderful dinner.
We tried to make the most of our trip and we stayed in the cottage until close to check out time. We all agreed that we will return one day again.
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