Asilomar state beach smells like fart: a day of indulgences

Today, in honor of my book loving nerdiness. we took a drive to Cannery row!!!

it is in Monterey about an hour and half from us. We also decided once we got there that it was the day of indulgences.

We started out with lunch and a drink. nothing like an afternoon bloody mary.

then we walked around town and eventually rented kayaks... i would put some photos up, but we had to use a waterproof disposable camera since we didn't buy the waterproof case for our real camera yet.

anyway, we kayaked along the bay for about an hour and a half and it was AMAZING!!!

we saw pelicans and elephant seals resting on the rocks near us ( you can't get any closer than 50 feet though because the area that we were in is a marine sanctuary and they are all protected) although one of the seals was following us and popping up right behind us or under tony's kayak...

we had all sorts of water gear on, so the only sunburns we got were on our faces and i was wearing sunglasses, so i have a little raccoon action going on!

once we docked our boats, we walked down the row and went to a wine tasting.

and promptly bought a bottle of pinot grigio.

after that we went to the rocky mountain chocolate factory ( where we officially named the day, the day of indulgences) because we each had a carmel apple ( mine was covered in pecans and tony's was carmel with graham cracker on it, called cheesecake)

we also bought some snacks for later on.

then we walked down the row and explores some building that are now shops, but at one time were the canning building of steinbeck's novel... it was so cool. i have a thing for old buildings.

Once we had our fill of that, we walked (off the snacks, i hope)and then drove along the coast line in hopes to see a stray whale on its way to alaska, instead we saw more seals and pelican and a few egrets.

oh and i forgot, we stopped to get some tea and tony a cookie- seriously this was an all day affair, we are not really that gross with all the food. we were there from like 1:30-9 pm/.. but i don't care if you judge, it was a special day!

we got home a bit ago and were going to have a glass of wine in the hot tub, but there was some kind of party going on there. there were like 15 people hanging around so we just came home and decided that we shouldn't have wine anyway, since we were feeling a little like poo from our sunburns...

and now i am going to indulge in some sleep-a lot of it, because i have to work tomorrow and the next day. But i plan on working off the indulgences at yoga this week!

oh yeah, and the last beach that we walked along asilomar beach really did smell like a fart.. i think it was all the sea life, they sorta just hang out on the rocks near the coast and it stinks!