I wish I went to Stanford

I went to visit my sister in California over the long weekend. Well, to be fair since I'm "retired" I took an extra long weekend (Thursday-Tuesday). Being the organized sibling Kath had a whole itinerary set up for us so we got a lot of great tourist work done. A few highlights from the trip:
- The monterey aquarium: the otters are hillarious and they had a brand new Great White Shark! oooooh! To be honest, it was a baby Great White Shark...so not exactly Great...more like pretty big for a baby.
- Shopping!: J.Crew and DSW officially have all my money.
- Visit to the redwood forest: We totally won the hike. estimated time: 2 hours, our time: 45 minutes. Woohoo!!
- Sea Lions at the beach: We saw Sea Lions at the beach!!! at least I think they were Sea Lions...I'm not sure I totally know which one is a Seal and which one is a Sea Lion...