It's been a few years since I've been there and I didn't remember all the cool boutiques, ice-cream, candy and chocolate shops, jewelry and tourist nick-nacks, some very high end and the usual kiddy stuff. 
We stopped by the grocery store and picked up all the usual picnic fixin's and drove along the coast to a nice place where we ate and walked around the tide pools. Then we rented kayaks and paddled around the Monterey Bay for about an hour until it got to windy. I have wnated to kayak in Monterey Bay for several years now when Jon and I would go down for the annual P.I.E. show. It was fun with Mark and Kaylinn.
In some places the kelp was so thick we almost couldn't row through it. The paddles would get all tangled up. Now I wish I had taken a picture of me holding that incredible stuff, so long and rubbery. We saw about a dozen sea otters gathered in the thickest bunch of kelp. Actually they were just laying on the kelp.FUN DAY!
