Yesterday Victor not only grabbed his toy bird from me (which he has done before) but held on to it and brought it up to his mouth to test out various parts of it! That's the first time he has brought a toy up to his mouth to try and eat it. He wasn't too impressed, but it was something new :) His favorite toys right now are his feet and his reflection. His favorite snacks are still his hands and blankets.
So roadtrip. Friday morning we got a late start because we did most of our packing then. We left around 11, determined to make it through LA as quickly and painlessly as possible. It wasn't too bad, considering. We made it up along the 101 before we stopped in the afternoon. We randomly picked an exit, and it turned out to be a cute little town called Summerville with a small park overlooking the ocean! Picnic time! I thought it looked like there were big pirate ships out in the water, but they turned out to be a series of oil rigs. It was a nice little stop, except a train came by right next to the park and scared poor Victor silly with its loud horn. 20 minutes down the road, we were at our hotel! We stayed in a nice little place with a lagoon in the middle filled with water lillies and turtles swimming around. For dinner we ventured in to downtown Santa Barbara, which was a very nice place with lots of upscale stores all along the street. Damian carried Victor in his baby carrier because we didn't bring the stroller, and it's a good way to keep Victor entertained enough to fall asleep again later (after sleeping all day in the car). Not that Victor didn't fall asleep in the restaurant, but it still kept him pretty amused.
Saturday we got an early start, thanks to the little man. I think this is the first time Damian and I have stayed in a hotel and NOT done the late check out ;) We cut out from the 101 and ventured on to Rt. 1, which is a bumpy little two lane road--trust me, very small after the 10 lanes you get in LA! This is the scenic route up the coast. We passed a few small beach towns, but there's a whole lot of nothing out there--again, nice after the endless suburbia of SoCal and the endlessness in general of LA! One town we stopped at Damian called "spillover from a sleepy little beach town." It made even his hometown look big! But it was a weird little tourist place with a 70's kind of vibe. Further up the road we stopped at a resort with a little rest area. This was kind of getting in to the national park zone. Damian had even checked it out online while we were researching hotels--those rooms went for $1500 a pop, easily. It did have some nice views up and down the coast as it was up on a cliff. Looking at the winding roads was a bit intimidating! We took Damian's truck and took it pretty slow, though, and did all right. Fortunately traffic was light enough that we didn't have to pull over to let other people by very often. The scenery was absolutely gorgeous. The water was blue and sparkling but shallow so you could see all sorts of rocks and things. We were up on a cliff a lot, but the water was pretty shallow--except for these random huge rocks that popped up just off the shore all over the place. Once we got up in to the Big Sur park we actually had some streches of big trees--small redwoods, I think, in some places. I was surprised that there were several homes in these backwoods areas and national parks, but I guess I shouldn't have been since my own in-laws live in the Adirondacks ;) We made it all up the coast to Monterey and stayed in a town just past it. We were too tired to go back there to look at the fancy downtowns, so we got pizza and went to bed early, which was just as nice! :)
To be continued, my little munchkin just woke up with hiccups! Poor baby!
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