Saturday, June 26, 2010

Monterey Part 3

Though our trip to Monterey was mainly to take Rafael to the Aquarium, it seemed that the highlight of the trip was something we didn't expect.

We had an early dinner (around 5 pm) on Sunday at a Mexican restaurant near the hotel which by the way, we would highly recommend. It's called Lopez Restaurante Y Cantina. I just happened to read it in one of the reviews of the hotel in tripadvisor.com.

I had the usual steak carne asada which was ok. Not bad but ok.

What Angel ordered however, was the best Mexican dish I've ever tried. It's called Chile Relleno - green pepper stuffed with cheese (4 kinds), egg, and potato. Yummy is all I can say.


No, the meal was not the highlight of our trip.

Just as we finished dinner, we chatted with the waitress who was very nice and accomodating. She mentioned this really big park called Dennis the Menace Park not too far from the restaurant. We wanted to take Rafael somewhere to release his pent-up energy. So we drove down about a mile and saw this huge playground. Near the entrance stood this big train. A real train which turns out was donated by the Southern Pacific Company to the city. Whoever thought we would see something like it on this trip! Rafael of course was ecstatic.





While we were on the train, he kept saying: "Wow nice! Wow cool!".

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