West Coast Explorers

On Wednesday, we didn't really have any plans.  We decided to go exploring.  Nash and Nolan helped Grama Jo get ready for the day.

Grama and her stylists

 We ended up at a park in Pismo Beach.

Daddy the Dare Devil

Grama and the boys

Nash and Nana were enjoying the photo shoot.  Nolan, not so much.

 Nana and I walked along the cliffs a little ways and discovered some sea lions sunning on the rocks.

 This lead us to a staircase that took us to a little beach.

Nana and the mountain goat

Nash loved climbing on the rocks

Nolan and Grama Jo

On the way back to the hotel, we ended up at a little barn selling produce and canned goods.  They had a petting zoo to entertain the boys.

 That night we had dinner at Rosa's, which was delicious.  It's a nice, Italian restaurant where Jason used to work when he was in college.  During our trip we got to see a lot of different places where Jason used to work and live.  It was a trip back in time for him.  We had dinner a couple of nights with some of his college friends.  It was good to catch up with all of them.  We visited Jason's college campus one day and purchased a few things from the bookstore.

We visited the children's museum in SLO for a bit on Thursday.

The children

More children

On Thursday night we met up with some friends at the San Luis Farmer's Market.  They close off several blocks downtown so the vendors can set up shop.   We had some good food and the boys ate a ton of fresh strawberries.  Friday we checked out of the hotel and drove back over to Bakersfield.  We stopped to surprise Grandma Alonna at work on the way.  We turned in fairly early on Friday because our plane left at 5:50 am on Saturday morning.  The boys did really well on all of the flights.

Passing the time with a movie

We arrived back home around 1:30 this afternoon.  It was tough to say good-bye to our friends and family in Cali.  We had such an amazing two weeks away.  And I want to give a special shout out to Nana for making the trip with us.  You were such a big help and it was exciting for us to share that part of our lives with you!  Mwah!
I have to share one last picture from my cell phone for the sake of memories.  This is a picture of one of the sunrises.  We saw many of these because Nash was usually up around 5am.  We would go down to the lobby for hot chocolate and wait for the sun to come up so whoever wanted to continue sleeping could get a little more shut eye.  For some reason Nash never quite adjusted to the time change even after 2 weeks.  Hopefully that will make for a smooth transition back to our normal schedules.  It might be an interesting week!

Back to reality!