Monterey Bay Aquarium @ Cannery Row

It has been 7 years since last visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It's a great place to visit, lots of sea creatures to see and touch. We swung by Big Sur and snapped some breath-taking pictures.

Road trip to San Francisco

A week before Erica's highschool orientation, we took the girls on a road trip to Northern California. we left home on Wednesday morning, stopped by Ostrichland in Buellton to feed the Ostriches and Emus, grab a lunch at the Anderson's. we found a beautiful place at Backbay Park near Morro Bay! we spent a night at King City and started our 2nd day at 7am. We visited the Winchester Mystery House, the girls really enjoyed the tour. After lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant, we went to the Golden Gate, Fisherman's Wharf and China town. After dinner, we drive 2 hours to Marina near Monterey Bay and spend a night.

1st time smoking

Someone in our community dumped an old smoker out, we took it home and took it apart, gave it a good sanding, cleaning, new coat of high temperature paint, replaced wood fixtures and it's just like a new one. tonight we fired it up the 1st time to smoke some ribs, pork belly and a piece of salmon. looks like it works as good as a new one too!

Buy one get one free @ Baskin Robins

4th of July special at Baskin Robins. Vivian used her gift card and treated Erica an ice-cream cone!

Museum of Western Film History, Lone Pine

We stopped by the Museum of Western Film History after lunch at Lone Pine. It's the area where dozens of famous cowboy movies were filmed.

Manzanar National Historic Site

After weekend stay at PMC, we drove almost 3 hours to the East side of Sierra, stay a night at Ridgecrest. It was warm at the Valley, the girls managed to have some fun in the pool. After a great continental breakfast, we drove 1.5 hours north to the Manzanar War Relocation Camp where 10,000 Japanese American were forced to reside after Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor.