Visiting Monterey and Santa Cruz

Today we took my moth­er to vis­it Mon­terey Bay Aquar­i­um and San­ta Cruz Wharf.

As far as I’m con­cerned, Mon­terey Bay Aquar­i­um is the best aquar­i­um in the uni­verse. It’s amaz­ing! If you ever get a chance to vis­it it, you have to go. If they ever put the sev­en won­ders of the world to vote, I’ll serous­ly con­sid­er cast­ing my bal­lot for this attrac­tion. It is sim­ply breath­tak­ing.

After spend­ing four hours in the aquar­i­um, we were quite ready for sup­per at the Bub­ba Gump Shrimp Com­pa­ny (yes, like in For­rest Gump). It was pret­ty neat, and the food was good. We even got our pic­ture tak­en with a For­rest Gump imper­son­ator!

Final­ly, we vis­it­ed the San­ta Cruz Wharf at the north end of Mon­terey Bay. It was pret­ty neat, although the sea lions weren’t too frisky.

Over­all, it was a pleas­ant day spent roam­ing North­ern Cal­i­for­nia.