Monterey

After more than a year of being pestered by various friends and relatives, I finally decided to take Winston on a trip. We went to Monterey for an overnight trip. While he will remember nothing from this trip (my reason for not taking the enormous trouble to plan for trips), hopefully he is getting more than usual sensory stimulation that might contribute to a few points increase in IQ (or EQ). After all, these hypotheses were what drove me to take this trip.


So did I accomplish the goal? Well, it is hard to say. He was very excited when he first got out of the car in Monterey, running around like crazy, presumably because he was in the car seat for the past 2 hours. He paid a little attention to the seaside scenery, the jelly fish in the aquarium, and the boats at Fisherman's Wharf, but he paid much more attention to the elevators of the hotel and the doors at every place. In fact, partly because I was trying to get him to see what's really unique about Monterey, I was constantly taking him away from a door knob or an elevator that his temper seemed to be worse than usual. After all, he was happily playing with the door knob, which would have been acceptable were he at home.



The weather was beautiful, even though it was early February. Most people were wearing T-shirts already. I recalled that the previous time I was in Monterey was for a company conference, and it was really cold, windy and dark. There was an organized tour of the aquarium, but somehow my mind was preoccupied by various things. That was almost 6 years ago. How time does fly...



Winston slept in the same room on the other double bed. We put all those pillows around him to prevent him from falling off the bed. And he snored... Is it normal for a toddler to snore?

Since he is too young to keep a journal, I am doing it for him. He ate fish and chips for dinner, and had a bath in the huge bathtub at the hotel room. First he was afraid and said "pa pa" (afraid), but when he sat down in the tub, he was fine. He had some pictures taken in Monterey, and as usual, received a lot of praises and compliments for his looks as he ran up to people or ran by them.