Our Anniversary Vacation To Monterey

Today is our one-year anniversary! It's gone by so fast we can't believe it. For our honeymoon we went to Monterey, as well as a few spots in SoCal, but we just fell in love with Monterey. So, we decided to go there again this year. Here are a few pictures from our trip!



This is my sweet, adorable, sleeping husband in our room after a long, early morning drive. He always drives the whole way, and I am very grateful for that. I usually just end up sleeping through most of our long drives, which makes it go by very quickly for me! I know... I'm a bad wife. Oh well, I'll be doing a lot of driving my self soon...






This was my anniversary gift. He upgraded my wedding band to a new one with more and bigger diamonds. I thought he was only getting my rings cleaned and he surprised me with the new band. It was a great surprise! It is so much more sparkly now!



Everybody's got to have a cliche photobooth shot!



This is the sushi restaurant that we ate at for dinner. Great food! We heard them singing a crazy Japanese birthday song with some cool drums, so we want to go there again for one of our birthdays.











The view from our table. We were looking out to all the boats in the bay at Fisherman's Wharf.















Our drinks. Virgin beer and virgin daquiri. Don't judge us. :-P



Course 2. Edamame (salted soy beans, very nutritous), seaweed salad (it was actually quite tasty. Just tasted like seasoned green beans.), and gyoza (everybody loves pot stickers!) Course 1 was the miso soup, but I forgot to take a picture of it.












Course 3. SUSHI!



We ate ALL of it! Some of it was kinda hard for me to stomach. I'm not quite a pro at sushi yet. Some raw fish has a texture like regular meat where you actually have to chew it, but other raw fish just squishes and disolves in your mouth and THAT is the gross stuff. The flavor is all just an aquired taste.









This was our view when it got dark.

















Last, but not least, desert. Red bean ice cream and green tea ice cream. Delicious!



















This is what Brett says he sees EVERY day. Don't be jealous.














A great picture of us!















Isn't the beach beautiful? Oh yeah, and my OTHER new wedding band is GORGEOUS! We were driving down to Fisherman's Wharf, and he asked me to get some food for him out of the side pocket of his backpack. I reached into the backseat and only found the ring box from when he gave me my other band. I thought to myself, "Why did he bring this? It's empty. He already gave me my new band." But then he said, "Hey what's that? Maybe you should open it..." I opened it and about jumped out of my seatbelt! Another, gorgeous, sparkling band! So, here is the complete set. I wasn't expecting this kind of upgrade until maybe our 5 or 10 year anniversary. This picture doesn't show how sparkly it is, but trust me, look at it in the sunlight and you will be blinded! Not to brag, or anything... :-)



This is just a cool, old boat that we saw. It looked like the Bubba Gump shrimp boat.














Lots of boats! Very cool.
















This picture kind of reminds me of the picture of Desmond and Penny on Lost.












A duck swimming with only one foot so it was going in a circle with his face tucked under his wing. I thought it was quite funny.











Fisherman's wharf.














One of these seals was just barkin' away. I don't know what his problem was.
















This is the pier at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. We decided to stop there on our way home for some burgers. They weren't very good.