My friends at FROST celebrated with me.

Mary Kay made a fantastic chocolate cake with fresh raspberries and we celebrated.  My birthday was filled with love.  Pretty amazing.

Hiking to Pfeiffer Falls and Valley View

Kevin was so great about letting me stop along the way and take pictures. The trees are huge -- easily 1,000-to 1500 years old.  What a great time...even if some tourists wanted to stay with us, rest with us, hike with us -- and talk non-stop along the way.  We stopped and shopped a little in Carmel before heading home. We decided to try a new restaurant for dinner and scored big time -- Rangoli's Indian Restaurant in San Jose was delicious.  On Sunday, Ashley, Kevin and I tried Mint Leaf in Saratoga for lunch -- another delicious meal.  I told Kevin I didn't want to make my birthday all about eating -- hmmm.

Saturday of my Birthday Weekend

I loved taking pictures of the wild flowers --surprise, surprise. The iris's are in bloom.

I found this wild iris along the Big Sur coast.

This wild iris was along the trail to Pfeiffer Falls

Birthday Weekend

My birthday celebration began early -- Kevin bought me a new MP3 player to use in the pool. Pretty cool. I had been hoping to go to Monterey for my birthday, but the weather report was nothing but rain. But when Friday came, it was beautiful -- so Kevin and I headed for the coast.

We spent Friday afternoon walking from Monterey Aquarium down to Passion Fish restaurant and back. We have a leisurely dinner. Beer battered kalamata olives, butternut squash soup, Mahi Mahi...very delicious. We walked back and poked around on Cannery Row. Listened to a musician at the Plaza for a while. A wonderful evening. 

Saturday we got up and walked around the Hyatt's Golf Course (Del Monte) for several hours. We had breakfast at the Plaza -- a fabulous egg white omelet. There were ten otters hanging around out the window. Then we headed down to Big Sur.

Happy BDay Gramma LuLu.wmv

A special birthday greeting...touched me deeply this morning.