filling my time

Monterey is so beautiful! Wanna see how beautiful it was this past weekend?

This was my day on Saturday!

I visited a couple of friends who just moved there and had such a nice time catching up, seeing their new place and just relaxing and having fun. We spend the day in downtown Monterey for lunchtime and the rest of the afternoon. I also decided to do some wine tasting, which was really fun. I am not much of a wine person, and in fact most wines really just don’t taste very good to me, but the whole cultural aspect of drinking wine fascinates me enough that participating in some wine tasting is enjoyable! And after seeing the movie “Sideways” my interest was just much higher. I must admit that I’m not much of a Pinot Noir fan, but I must also give it some more tries since the glass I had wasn’t very expensive. I’m sure the more expensive brands have a better taste.

After we saw the main drag and the fisherman’s wharf, we decided to go back before we saw what you see the right. Yes, it’s really a monkey taking a dollar from a girl, you know, the old organ grinder. He was making some nice bank, about $10-20 while stood there for a few minutes. Assuming that he always makes this kind of money, I’d say that’s not a bad job to have for some easy money! After being entertained by this for a while, we found a store that carried some foreign candy and I had to buy myself one last taste of good ‘ole Milka chocolate! It was darn expensive but will be yuuuuumy when I finally eat it!

This was a very nice weekend that I needed to get a break from my personal issues with a friend and jobs. It is now a new month, hopefully time for a fresh start and new beginnings. I definitely can’t wait to get back up there to Monterey!