Day 5 – Monday
After breakfast we met Haddie & Oliver to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The line wrapped all the way around the building. But lucky for us, Haddie had a season pass that allowed us to skip the line and walk right in for free.
We walked over to an Italian restaurant to meet everyone for lunch. They make their own pasta at this place so we all had to order pasta. Red meat sauce, 3 cheese sauce, pesto & chicken. All were delicious. For some reason, I never remember to take a group picture with all of our beautiful plates, but only remember when the table is full of dirty dishes.
When we got home Bruce put on the wetsuit and we drove back to the beach where we had seen the other surfers. The water seemed a lot rougher today which made me really nervous. There were no lifeguards and no other surfers today. So basically if anything happened to Bruce it would be up to me and the various mothers and children playing in the sand to save him. Yikes! That’s a scary thought! But he was undeterred. He marched out into the water and waited for some good waves. Unfortunately the waves were breaking really shallow making it pretty difficult to body surf. Bruce gave it a few shots and then called it a day. He had accomplished what he wanted to do – get in the ocean. Mission accomplished.
Stan & Mary drove us to Bruce’s cousin Tom’s house for dinner that night. We all walked over to In N Out for some burgers. Last time we were in town his wife, Hannleigh was working so we hadn’t met her yet. And since it was during Covid we hadn’t gotten to spend much time with his kids either. Such a delightful family. We had a wonderful time. Someday maybe I’ll tell you the fascinating story of how Tom met Hannleigh in the Philippines and what it took to get her to the US.
On the way over Mary & Stan pointed out some million dollar homes and then some 2 million dollar homes. Amazing!
