Fish, Garlic and Danish Food!

Over the weekend, Danny and I took a short trip up to Monterey and Gilroy to enjoy the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Gilroy Garlic Festival. We left early Friday morning and took a funny way on the 5 freeway (don't ask! haha) to get to Monterey. It was our first time to the Aquarium, so we were both excited. We brought our own lunches that we enjoyed outside with the cool sea breeze!

Look at the sea lions lounging on the beach! At first I thought they were just rocks until I saw a small lil-something move and swim into the ocean!

Danny couldn't resist eating the swimming mackerel! Our highlight of the day was watching the cute sea otters bath themselves! They wash their cheeks with human-like circular motions!

For dinner we went to the Monterey Fish House...they have amazing food! Danny had halibut, and I had California white seabass which we both had almond encrusted -yum! Luckily, we were able to get a 5pm reservation, otherwise we would of had to wait until 8:30pm to get a seat!

The following morning we hit the Gilroy Garlic Festival to enjoy some stinkin' food! Just like last year, there were lots of visitors wanting to stink their breathes with garlic as much as we did!

We started the day by watching a demo of how to cook pepper steak sandwiches, then we got hungry and ate some key lime calamari. After scarfing down the calamari, we ordered a sausage sandwich with chicken stir-fry, scampi and mushrooms -of course, everything had garlic in it. It was fantastic! Then, saving the best for last we had roasted corn with garlic butter! Luckily, the nice boy gave me an extra corn for free which meant a whole corn for the each of us -score!

We had our share of garlic for the summer, so it was time to go home to Orange County! We didn't try the garlic ice cream, again, this year, but someday we will!

On our way back home, we decided to take the 101 freeway as we were hungry for a different scenery. The nothingness of the 5 would have driven us crazy! We thought that a good stop along the way into Solvang would be nice. It's been years since Danny and I went there, so we wanted to revisit it again =)

We ate at a small danish cafe, and enjoyed the music of the old man's accordion. I almost felt like I never left Vienna! Danny enjoyed a plate of schnitzel and I had danish sausage. After strolling the small danish village, we went back on the road and said "Good Night" to a fun and exciting weekend!