We woke up with intentions of biking to Santa Cruz, but fairly quickly decided that we wanted to spend more time with Margie, Jason, Ellie, and Ashley. Margie said we were welcome to stay as long as we wanted, so we thought, "Why not?" We still had an extra day to play with in our schedule. We figured it'd be best to take use it somewhere that we are comfortable and truly enjoying ourselves.

With that said, today was a bit of a lazy day. After breakfast, we did manage to get out of the house to talk a short walk down to the river. We took their dog, Lucy, with us and it was so fun watching her play in the water. When we got back to the house we ate lunch, took a nap, played a game of Scrabble, baked cookies, and watched some TV. 

For dinner, we went over to Carmel Valley Community Pool for their monthly fundraiser dinner. We ate some yummy hor d'oeuvres (artichoke jalapeno dip & bean dip) first. Then for the main course we enjoyed chicken, garden burgers, garlic mashed potatoes, salad, and garlic bread. Even though we were stuffed, we ate ice cream and cookies for dessert! After dinner, the "Big Swim" was about to start, another fundraiser that Ashley was partaking in. We didn't stay to watch though because it goes all night and Ashley is swimming from midnight to 1am.