October 18

This morning we woke up to know power.  We are to go on a bus tour today down to Monterey Aquarium and Cannery Row.  So after firing up the gen set and making coffee for the guest, we left for Monterey at about 9:45 AM.  At first we heard that the power would be back on by 9:30 AM, well that came and went with no power.  So we opened the windows for the boys and off we went on our tour.

Our first stop was the Monterey Bay Aquarium, it has the rating as the best Aquarium in the world.

The weather is great, the temp is only about 70 degrees which makes for a good day.
here are a few things that we seen inside.

We didn't stay here very long because we wanted to go down to Bubba Gumps for lunch on Cannery Row.

As we were walking down to here we noticed that a lot of shops not opened, and low and behold the power was out here in Monterey.  So the only place that had power was the Aquarium.  So we head back there to get something to eat before we head out on the rest of our bus tour.

 We went by a lot of Golf Coarse on the 17 mile Pebble Beach Drive.  Our next stop was at the Migrating Monarch Butterflies Nesting Trees, this area is protect for the Monarch Butterflies.  It was neat seeing a few of them here.  They say that during the Migration that 100's of them can be seen here.  They start showing up around the first of October  and by November they are covering these trees.  Here are just a few of the pictures I took.

 We were here for about 20 minutes then off we went for the drive on 17 mile drive.

Our next stop was at the oldest Cypress along the coast.

 Once again we were back on the bus towards Carmel, so the wife's can go shopping for a couple of hours.

 The wife's may be happy but I don't know about the husbands.

 At least our two wife's came out of this store with no bags.

 This dog made a great door stop.

 We all had a great day and the wife's didn't brake the bank and we all had a great time.  Tomorrow we move again down the coast about a 100 miles to a town called Paso Robles, CA.  We will be here 2 nights with a trip to the Hearst Castle.  We haven't been there in over 30 years, so it will be a great visit again.