Monterey 2012

We had a little window of time this month to take a trip, and we went to Monterey. Whenever we travel through Vacaville we always stop at the Nut Tree. It's amazing! A play ground, train and carousel are exactly what we need after 2 hours in the car :)

We stayed in Aptos, which is perfectly situated between Santa Cruz and Monterey. Our hotel was 2 blocks from Sea Cliff state beach and it was an amazing introduction for our kids. We had beautiful weather and most of the beach to ourselves. Rhonen, unfortunately, got a little too wet from the ocean and we had to cut our beach trip short. But we compensated with the lovely hot tub at our hotel :)

the weather turned bad on the third day, which perfectly coincided with our trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I would recommend this destination to anyone, with or without children. What a beautiful place to enjoy and marvel at the ocean and it's inhabitants! Of course, our children absolutely loved it!