Fun Trip to SLO

Last weekend we took a day trip to San Luis Obispo to visit Marianne and let Kevin go surfing (he didn't end up getting in the water, but that was one of the reasons to go...). Emily was the most excited little girl to go see her favorite aunt, and we had a blast hanging out at the beach and the little beach "downtown" areas. We started off with lunch compliments of Marianne at her sandwich shop. Some of the best sandwiches out there, in my opinion. Emily had a plate of olives, pickles, cheese and turkey. She ate all the olives and some of the other stuff. Then we headed out to Morro Bay to check out the surf, only to discover that they were having a surf contest so nobody else could surf. It ended up being okay because it was freezing and super windy so Kevin didn't really want to go anyway. We let Emily play in the sand for a while and had a few "sandcastles" toppled over by the waves.


Then we went down the street where they have all the little shops and visited this really cool taffy store that Marianne had found previously. They had probably over 50 flavors of saltwater taffy in big bins, then you got to take a big black cauldron and fill it with whatever you wanted. They had flavors like apricot, caramel apple, pumpkin pie, eggnog and pineapple, plus all the regular taffy flavors. We got a good assortment and my, were they delicious. I actually have only eaten about four of them, but the ones I had were REALLY GOOD. The flavors seemed more intense than your typical taffy. And Emily got a balloon, so she was happy. Then outside of the store we found...Sahara!

Please see the Fresno Fair post if you don't know what that is. Emily and another little girl who happened to be there had a nice little horse ride. Notice the bag in Emily's arms - full of taffy! I don't think Emily could have had more things that she loved in one day (well, maybe if grandma and grandpa were there and she got to wear her princess dress all day, but that's probably it).

Once we were all loaded up with candy we headed back to Marianne's for a little rest, then went the other direction to Pismo, although we never did make it all the way down there. We went to Spyglass (to check out the surf again) and they had a playground right there by the edge of the cliff overlooking the ocean so Emily got to play. The surf there wasn't good enough for Kevin to get in, so we played at the playground and then went down to the water and looked in the little tide pools and watched the sunset. Emily found a perfect stick for poking sea anemones to make them close up. The sunset was gorgeous, too.

Last but not least, a trip to the famous Splash Cafe for some clam chowder in a bread bowl. It was sooo yummy! After I scraped out every last bit from my bowl I finished off Marianne's, too. Yeah, I'm a hungry pregnant lady, okay?! It just tasted so delicious and I had been craving that ever since we even decided to go to SLO. So I had my fill. For now. We took Marianne home and got Emily in her pajamas for the ride home, but then she got in Marianne's bed and said she wanted to stay there. We thought surely if we acted like we were just going to leave her she'd follow us out the door, but no, she was perfectly happy to stay with Marianne for the rest of her life, probably. It took many minutes of coaxing and finally Marianne carrying her out to the car to get her to go. Emily is just so enamored with her darling auntie. It was a fun trip!