Day 4 - Monterey Area

On Monday morning, Nicole and I took a drive down to beautiful Pacific Grove.  Our most immediate destination was Back Porch Fabrics, but we saw some other beautiful things while we were there as well.   Here are the beautiful batiks I bought at Back Porch.  Orange again, what a surprise!  but their orange and pink selection just knocked me over.  There's a great quilt in the Batik Beauties book with a striped, mitered border, and I found the perfect stripe for mine.

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After shopping, we blazed down Highway 1 to see as many things as we could in our last full day together and, indeed, we saw some very pretty sights.  This beautiful bed and breakfast is the Seven Gables Inn, with rooms starting at just $200 a night - not too bad for such a beautiful setting, wouldn't you agree?

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Look at this beautiful carpet of purply goodness - it's called ice plant, and I've never seen anything quite like it.

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We continued our drive down the coast, looking at all the beautiful homes and stopping once or twice to try and get a picture of the waves crashing to the shore.

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We had the most delicious lunch at Roy's at the Inn at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach.  I had the Bento Box and tried sashimi for the first time.  It was melt-in-your mouth delicious.

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Nicole posed for a picture next to the beautiful tropical flowers in the hotel lobby.

But back in the car, we had more sightseeing to do.  We swung by the Mission Ranch for a view of the property.  Stopped briefly at the Carmel Mission, visited some friends of Nicole's at a cute little home decor shop, and then up to the Carmel Ranch where Nicole interviewed recently (beautiful place), then home to Ozzie.

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Ozzie ran into the guest bedroom and nabbed a bottle of Benedryl from my tote bag.  We both chased him all around the yard to retrieve the bottle.  Ozzie clearly thought it was a fun game.  The bottle had some puncture wounds, but fortunately, Ozzie didn't get to the contents.

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Then Ozzie hung out while we laid out the batiks from our earlier shopping trip.   I think he liked Nicole's pile the best.

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Here is the hostess gift I left for Nicole - I asked Nicole Ellison to make an Annie (actually a Nettie) doll using a fabric that Nicole and I have a running joke about.  The doll was adorable and I hope Nicole enjoys having her as a memory of my visit.  I know Ozzie wanted so badly to get Nettie as I was trying to take her picture.  Keep her on a high shelf, Nicole!