California Coast

The week before our wedding, my mom, my brother Richard and his girlfriend Maria flew into LAX to travel north with us to the wedding. Richard and Maria had not been to Los Angeles before so we did some sight seeing before going home.
We first had lunch on 3rd Street Promenade, here Maria displays the beer Rich and I each enjoyed with our food. We then headed over to Venice Beach to do some people watching and let them onto the sand and see the Pacific Ocean for the first time. As it turns out we all ended up in the ocean ;-)The next day we were up VERY early to avoid LA rush hour and began our drive north. Our first stop was just north of San Simeon to check out the elephant seals.

We then continued further north to Big Sur to check out the Redwoods, here's Kylie and I in a hollow in one of the trunks of the trees.
Then we jumped back into the car to get to Monterey where we had lunch at Bubba Gumps and checked out the Monterey Aquarium. Here is my mom, Rich, Maria and Kylie at Cannery Row in Monterey.Once finished there we drove the remaining hours up to San Rafael. After a night of sleep we headed out the next morning to do some wine tasting in the Sonoma area where Kylie grew up. Here's Kylie and I at one of the winery's we visited.

The following day we took the ferry across from San Rafael to san Francisco to have lunch at Fishermans Wharf and check out Golden Gate Bridge. We of course had Clam Chowder in sour dough bread bowls! Here is a picture at Fishermans Wharf with my mom, Me, Kylie, Rich, Maria, my dad, Gisela

After this we got married, which this trip was all about in the first place ;-) Stayed tuned for that post!