Central Coast Cycling Circuit... anniversary trip

Spent a lovely anniversary weekend down south, biking around, touring breweries, sampling food, and staying with warm showers hosts.  We took care of Thomas and Camille the weekend before, so Alexis and Mi-Suk took Kai and Nikko in for this weekend. 

Morning snuggles...

Breakfast of champions on Piedmont Ave.

On our way down we stopped by James and Courtney's place in San Jose which they've been remodeling for almost a year... the place was almost unrecognizable from the outside.

And the inside was totally unrecognizable.  Beautiful house!

They had the right beer for me

And on our way down to the campsite we stopped at a brewery.  Our first of the tour.  Their pretzles were amazing...

And had some yummy sushi near by: https://www.yelp.com/biz/kuma-sushi-los-osos

And we got a tiny plate of desert. 

We arrived in the dark and we got up the next morning and got going.  Didn't get to hang out much at Montana de Oro.  We camped at the group site a few years ago with the Wash U kids when Kai broke his arm...

Then we drove to Celia's for brekky...

And soon we were off...

Avila beach pier

Soooo many kayaks...

Pelican-Selfie

We visited the Avila Valley Barn where we had some snacks and saw some animals.  http://avilavalleybarn.com/ The kids would've like this place.

Hey Eli and Emi!

Looks like some great sea kayaking

Our second brewery of the tour.  Bittersweet brewery.  Not too bad... don't need to go back.  https://www.yelp.com/biz/bittersweet-brewing-grover-beach?osq=brewery

On our way up to a winery...

And our last brewery... we went with our Warmshowers host.. https://www.yelp.com/biz/central-coast-brewing-san-luis-obispo?osq=brewery

Kim with our WarmShowers host.  He was wonderful!

Our first stop the next day https://www.yelp.com/biz/slodoco-donuts-san-luis-obispo

obligatory tandom shadow selfie

We had a short ride back to our car the next morning...

bear sighting!

Back to the three stacks and a rock...

Our 4th brewery... https://www.yelp.com/biz/barrelhouse-brewing-co-paso-robles-2

Had to stop for this pic... might be a fun one to print out egh?

5th brewery stop... https://www.yelp.com/biz/earth-and-fire-brewing-company-paso-robles-2

And our last... Toro Creek. This place was cool https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/toro-creek-brewing-company-paso-robles

Came home... did a lake lap, all is good. 

Nikko in Chico!

on our way up, since traffic was heavy we decided to drop in on the Hoefts so Kai could show everyone his bum... and that he wears his pants backwards.  Oh and his drawing of daddy.  

Went back up to Chico for our anniversary getaway weekend again.  We first went there in 2013 when Kai was 1.5 yrs old.  We had a great time up there, we were too busy to research another location... so I figured let's go back.  We rented a place on AirBnB again... a different place as the place we rented before was already booked.  The lady that own the rental also owns the bakery next door, and she left us cupcakes as our welcome treat.!

not to be outdone, Nikko wanted to show off his newly acquired peeing skills.  

as planned the boys fell asleep on the way up.  

The next morning, we biked to Bidwell Park and to the Farmer's Market.  Chico is very bike friendly.  In fact we never got in our van after we parked it.  We biked everywhere!

Sycamore Pool! It's coooold....

Caper Acres... the greatest playground in CA!  Not open til 10.  Weird.

on our way to the Nut Fest!  There's a bike path for most of the route!

Bike entrance to the Nut fest

Milking cows...

Kai & Nikko quickly found water to play with...

And soon were IN it... much to the horror of the surrounding attendees.  One lady came over and told me she got wet from Nikko.  I told her to move... and that it was 90 deg... and gave her a beer coupon.  

back in town, we went straight to the Sycamore pool to get some more water time in.

The next day we had to head back to the park.  Only a few blocks away, but this was Kai's first time biking on roads.  He did a great job paying attention to me.  

Nikko didn't want to go down this one...

For lunch, we went to Sierra Brewery... we had to...

Nikko's drawing

Kai's drawing...

and mine!

Lots of IPAs that aren't available anywhere else.

The boys slept well on the way home too...

So we stopped at Lake Temescal to cool off and wake up.  

Beautiful sunset...