Leaving Monterey and Tomasso´s...

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone is really well!

Last night in Monterey (mon-a-raaaaayyyyyyy) we headed to a restaurant on
Cannery Row. All I can say about this is when we walked in all I could
think was that my parents would hang their heads in shame if they saw me
eating in a place like that! It was not great, gimmiky and a waste of
money. However afterwards we headed to a bar called Sly McFlys which was
really cute. It had a live jazz jamming session going on, it was a really
cute place! I liked it a lot. After that we just headed back to the olde
hostel, which was a really nice hostel. Very impressed with HI Monterey!

This morning Rob got up at 6.30am and went for a walk to a place called
Lovers point, he said it was a little underwhelming but he liked that all
the joggers and dog walkers said good morning to each other! lol! I got up
at 8.30am, had a shower and surfed the internet. At 9.15am I made American
Pancakes for breakie for me and Rob! They came out really really well and
were really cute!!! lol!

After breakie we headed back down into Cannery Row and had a walk on the
beach and a look at some shops. We brought a newspaper and walked down the
Monterey recreation trail. It was a really really lovely walk. We stopped
at another beach and read the newspaper and then headed along further to
the marina and saw about 50 SEALS just lounging around in the water and on
the rocks. It was SOOOOOOO COOOL, they looked sooooo cute. They were just
chillaxing! They reminded me of Baz soooooo much! lol!

After that we headed to fishermans wharf and had a look around the place!
It was a bit touristy but not too bad. We headed into the historic bit of
Monterey, although this confused me cause they named it the historic bit
but as far as I could tell it was newer than the Cannery Row area! lol!
Weird! We stopped off for Tacos (that werent anywhere near as good as La
Taqueras)! We then went to a coffee shop. Rob had a big brownie and I had
a coffee. I rang my parents to say hello as well! That was really nice!!!

After that we got a bus (that made both Rob and I feel sick!) to San Jose,
a train to Emeryville and then a bus to San Francisco. We headed back to
the hostel, via old navy. Rob has officially worked out exactly what you
can do to wind me up and when he is in a funny mood he deliberately tries
to do it! lol! Not a good thing for him to have completely mastered! lol!
He gets soooo much fun out of it as well! lol! :-)!

We checked into our hostel (back at the green tortoise) and then dumped
our stuff and headed literally across the road to a Italian restaurant
called Tomasso. This was soooo cute. It has a green door and no windows
and you go downstairs when you get in. Rob and I shared a Chicken and
Artichoke pizza, this was ABSOLUTELY amazing!!! I never thought to put
artichokes on a pizza but it was sooooooo good on it! I also had a
caprese! It made me laugh cause the enthusiastic bus driver from the day
before was like, owwww do you like Artichokes and we were obviously like
yer defo! She was like, well you should soooo go and get some deep fried
artichokes (artichokes are grown around here btw), we were like ummmm ok.
But obviously didnt cause they were deep fried! The pizza ones were not
obviously, they were sooooo good! Best pizza Ive had in AGES!!!! Perfectly
cooked, Id recommend this place to anyone. Plus it cost up 10 pounds each
for the pizza, salad, wine etc!

Weve now headed back to the hostel! Tomorrow is ACTUALLY going to be
Berkeley day!!! Cant wait, Iḿ so excited!!!

Lots of Love,

Sarah xxx