Fun Friday #2: Aquarium and LouLou's

For this Friday's adventures we celebrated my mom having just landed- we picked Grant up at school and did a brief stop at the aquarium. The boys each got to pick something to show her. Carter picked the Sea Otters, Grant picked the Tentacles exhibit and then Grandma chose Penguins.

For dinner we went to the pier right at 5pm and got into LouLou's right when they opened. LouLou's Griddle in the Middle is a famous Monterey staple but it tiiiiny- there were 4 4person booths and 6 seats at the bar- for our party of 6 they turned 2 of the 4 person tables against the wall and we ate facing the windows. LouLou's is the epitome of Sea to Table- Geoff ordered the crab special and we saw the boat pull up to the pier and a fisherman bring up nets full of Dungeness Crabs- 10 minutes later Geoff was served one! (and the boys enjoyed playing with the claws) They split calamari and fries, Mom got a delicious Sole special with pineapple mustard and Polenta and I went with crab cakes- yum yum yum