Just for a day.

So it turns out that I'm not doing very well at updating this blog :-)  In an effort to not completely stop writing in it I have decided to make you all jealous.  For those of you who don't know, my husband and I are both graduate students at UC Davis.  This past quarter my husband was taking a couple classes, TAing for a rather time consuming class, tutoring for other classes, and doing his own research.  I was also very busy with my research, my job as a student researcher, different consulting projects, and tutoring.  Because of this most days were spent in the same building but separate places and our evenings were much the same.

About a month ago friends of ours mentioned a bed and breakfast they had been to and how much they liked it. So like the good little researcher I have become I went straight home and started researching this chain of bed and breakfasts (Four Sisters Inns:  for those of you that are interested).  By the end of the day I was dying to go and working out a way to convince my hubby that he was also dying to go :-)  Apparently he had felt the effects of the quarter as much as I had as it wasn't very difficult to convince him.  So we decided to book one night at the B&B during the school's Spring Break.  (I say the school's Spring Break because unfortunately we are passed the time in our lives where it is also our Spring Break :-)  ).  Now one night may not seem like much but it turned out to be absolutely perfect.  For a little more than one whole day we didn't talk about statistics, we didn't check our email, we didn't bring anything with us that could tie us to the real world!!

On the drive to the coast we stopped at a restaurant called the Whole Enchilada and had fried artichokes for the first time ever.  There are fields and fields of artichokes in this area.  When we got to our destination we walked around town, stopping in at little shops, went through the Farmers Market (and got a basket of unbelievably delicious strawberries), and watched people surf out by some seriously dangerous rocks!  That night we strolled through Monterey, bought a sand tapestry (pictures below), and thought seriously about doing a laser maze challenge before coming to our senses.  Later that night we decided we wanted some wine so we went to the liquor store to buy some.  Before checking out we remembered that we didn't have a corkscrew so we had better get champagne instead.  Since we are super classy people we settled on a fine bottle of $5 pink champagne.  The best part was when Chris insisted that the cashier print a receipt, to which the cashier grumbled "Oh yes, make sure to give that to the boss for the expense account".

The next morning we got up early and walked down to the beach to watch the sun rise.  Unfortunately the clouds on the horizon were a little too thick, so the sun rise was a bit disappointing.  If I figure this out correctly there will be some photos of our trip at the bottom of this post.  If not then see facebook for pics.  Anyway that was our trip in a nut shell.  We had a great time and I would recommend that everyone get away from work, school, kids, pets, etc., even if just for a day.