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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Purple Carpet at Grandma's Cottage

As you can see from the photo below, this is truly a natural phenomenon. Every year these massive beds of icicle plants cover the ground near the beaches of Monterey. We were fortunate enough to happen upon these flowers, known more commonly as "purple carpet". The plants actually grow on top of rocks and sand without any need for common soil and form a coushony bed, which we laid in. It was really something to see.






After a long walk along the beach and through the forests of flowers, we returned to the Sea Breeze Inn where we had managed to get a pretty large cottage. However, the cottage was clearly decorated by an elderly woman with a sense of fashion dating back to centuries ago. The whole place felt like one of those rooms in every house where you can't touch anything and is reserved for a handful of occasions annually. You know the type.

We then went into town for dinner at a place on the Fishermans Wharf. The boardwalk was filled with restaurants, candy shops (with enormous salt water taffy selections), and various forms of entertainment.

The first restaurant that CJ and I looked into, while Brett and Zach parked, was bad from the beginning. First, there was a very attractive girl offering free samples of clam chowder outside of the restaurant who, for some reason, was not interested in having me hit on her so she got us a table pretty quickly. As we sat at the table, which was located in the main entrance to the restaurant (already a bad sign), the hostess handed CJ and I menus.

Before I continue, I should point out that because California is so open and accepting of the homosexual community, they are more prone to seeing two dudes together on dates and stuff. However, when she said, "here are the menus for your partners", I was quick to ask CJ, "WTF did she just say?"

Zach was having a hankering for steamed muscles and clams all day so it didn't help their cause when they informed us that said seafood was no longer in supply for the evening. Needless to say, we were no longer interested in their crappy table, prude soup girl, poor attempt at being a seafood restaurant, and bad-jokes hostess so we left and found a much better restaurant.

After a great meal, we headed over the hills and through the woods to grandma's house.

-Ben "I steal candy from kids" Schultz

Location:Monterey, CA

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