Friday in Monterey

We started the day early with a ride into Monterey Bay. We were so early very little was open haha. We shared a cinnamon bun and a coffee at a little shop. We did a lot of walking around, checking out the shops as they opened up.

Everywhere we looked there were flowers. Pots along the street, little landscaped areas, or just randomly growing everywhere.

Then we went over to Fisherman’s Wharf, browsed the tables of goods and watched the sea lions for a while. We sat and ate clam chowder bread bowls (memorable!).

We took a break at home then went to the Watsonville Farmers Market, held every Friday at 2 pm. You have never seen a market to rival this one. Holy Cow. Food stands, flower stands, fruit stands – the smells were mouth watering. The produce and flowers were so beautiful they could have been photographed for a magazine. This is a big agriculture area so everything was locally grown. the market stalls lined two sides of a city plaza / park. They even had a bouncy house set up for the kids.