We live in a beautiful world. yeah we do.

Basically our earth is amazing and I love it. A lot. So I thought I'd show you some of the thing I love about it. :D

I really love flowers.

Aaand trees are awesome:

And I think that these places are beautiful:

I especially love the ocean:

And I'm amazed by the fact there's a whole other world under it:

And I really love the sun:

Sorry this is kind of a long blog post. I just have felt a lot of appreciation for how beautiful this world is lately... And these pictures are all from just tiny corners of it. It's awesome.

So me, Camille, and Stephanie have recently decided to take up learning the guitar. So every Tuesday we go down to my basement and we watch these learning videos that my dad lets us borrow. Actually they're really useful and I think we're all learning a lot even.

But anyway, that was kind of just random. After guitar lessons this week though we went over to Stephanie's to see her new kitten and she is just adorable... you don't even know. So, yeah. Yeah the kitten is Sunshine and the other one is Oliver and the other one is Stephanie. :)

Father's Day (I know it's really late...)

My dad is really great. He plays guitar, he knows so much about the scriptures and about cool religions like Islam, and in general he's just a very happy person which I admire him for. I'm really grateful that he's my dad because I've learned a lot from him (as well as from my amazing mom too. I just have great parents. really.) Happy Father's day!

Monterey trip day 5:

Today we drove around Big Sir. The view was absolutely amazing--I haven't seen water that blue in a long time. Then we drove down to see Hearst's Castle but all the tickets were sold out so we got to see it from afar. We went to eat at a fancy fish restaurant but me and my sisters decided to walk to a different restaurant once we saw the menu... everything was really expensive and really fishy and we're not really fish fans. We ate delicious italian food and we even tried some fried artichokes... Which are all over the place over here. They weren't too bad actually. And... yeah that's a pretty good summary of what we did today.

There are so many strawberry fields by our condo...

See? Look how blue!

This is Hearst's Castle with the camera zoomed in... Yeah we didn't see much haha.

The end.

Monterey trip day 4:

Today we went on some hikes at Point Lobos. The weather was cold but the view was absolutely beautiful.

Monterey trip day 3:

Today we went to San Francisco. I loved it all over again. First we visited the Palace of Legion of Honor. It was pretty cool and they had a special Paris Impressionist exhibit that was really interesting. They had some photographs of Paris from the 1800s and I was kind of amazed... 

In front of the Palace of Legion of Honor

Camille and Jamie Lyn informed me that this guy is my boyfriend... attractive, isn't he?

Random fact: I love how colorful the streets in San Francisco are.

We ate at a Middle Eastern restaurant for lunch and I had falafel which I haven't had since I lived in Egypt... It was delicious. 

Next we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge. And yeah, it was windy so in this picture our hairstyles are kinda strange... Oh well.

View from the Bridge.

After that we went to Haight-Ashbury which was just as hippie-ish as I remembered.

We went to Ghirardelli Square and ate delicious sundaes and shakes.

We spent the remaining couple of hours of the day at Pier 39 on Fisherman's Wharf. It brought back memories of old times with my friend Stephanie which made me miss her more... Haha oh well. 

And that's the end of today's adventures. Goodnight. :)

Monterey trip day 2:

Today we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was amazing. It was probably the best aquarium I have ever been to. My camera failed so I used the other camera. I'll post the better pictures later but for now here are some mediocre pictures.