Our day started really early - we left about at 6 am for Marina near Monterey (about a 1 hour drive) because there was the grand opening of a new REI store. I found out that first 200 people get a free water bottle with a gift card ranging from $5 to $100. We arrived at about 7.30 and nobody was there. It was little bit chilly, so we stayed in the car, but when at about 8 am other people appeared, we took our chairs and positioned ourselves in front of the entrance. The store opened at 11 am, so we had to wait about 3 hours! In the end it wasn't so bad. We got into a discussion with one man who we thought was the child of some Czech immigrants, but then we found out he was "just" an American who lived in the Czech Republic for 3 years and he spoke very good Czech! While we were waiting we got lessons in using a compass, a free cap, and quite a nice breakfast - tea, coffee, juice, banana and muffins. At 11 am we got our free water bottle, all of us with a $5 gift card, except for Tublu who got $25! The store wasn't very big and it didn't have any sales, so we left and went to the 17 mile Drive which is a private drive with several famout golf courses. It has many beautiful views of the ocean. Our next stop after this drive was Monterey Aquarium - we had two guest cards which we actually managed to use for 4 of us (Petra wanted to study, so she didn't go). We did a quick tour around the Aquarium, and saw the main exhibits. This was our last stop - we were pretty exhausted after such a long day with so early a start, so we left for home. Unfortunately I was driving otherwise I would have followed the example of the rest of the car and slept practically the whole way home!
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Nas den zacal velice brzy - vyrazili jsme kolem 6 rano do mesta Marina, pobliz Monterey (asi pres hodinu cesty), protoze tam bylo slavnostni oterverni obchodu REI. Me se podarilo zjistit, ze prvnim 200 lidem daji zdarma lahev na vodu a poukazku od 5 do 100 dolaru. Na misto jsme dorazili asi v 7.30 a byli jsme prvni. Bylo pomerne zima a tak jsme zustali v aute, ale kdyz se v 8 hodin objevili dalsi lide, tak jsem si vzali nase zidlicky a usidlili se pred vchodem. Obchod oteviral v 11 hodin a tak jsme meli pred sebou 3 hodiny cekani. Nakonec to nebylo tak stane! Seznamili jsme se s jednim Americanem, o kterem jsme si nejdrive mysleli, ze je to potomek ceskych imigrantu, ale pak jsme zjistili, ze je to pravy American, ktery mluvil velice dobrou cestinou, a ktery zil 3 roky v Cechach. Behem cekani jsme dostali lekci v zachazeni s kompasem, cepici a docela dobrou snidani - caj, kavu, dzus, banan a muffin. V 11 hodin jsme dostali zminovanou lahev zdarma a poukazku - vsichni 5 dolaru, krome Tublu, ktery dostal 25! Obchod nebyl zrovna nejvetsi a hlavne tam nebyli zadne slevy, tak jsme se brzy vydali na 17 milovou cestu, coz je soukroma cesta s golfovym hristem. Je plna take nadhernych vyhledu na ocean. Nase dalsi zastavka byla v Aquariu v Monterey - mela jsem od rodiny dve karticky na vstup zdarma, ale s ceskym myslenim jsme prosli vsichni ctyri! (Petra nesla, ucila se). Rychle jsem si prohledli aquarium, ale videli hlavni atrakce. To byla nase posledni zastavka - byli jsem pekne unaveni po takovem dlouhem dni s takovym brzkym vstavanim, a tak jsem jeli domu. Bohuzel jsem ridila, jinak bych asi taky usnula jak vsichni ostatni v aute!
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