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I got to go home for a week to visit my family.  My grandparents were also visiting from Illinois!  

We cooked, played cards, walked the mall, and sat around in my mom's immaculate house in the middle of an immaculate Colorado Springs suburb.  :)

It was so peaceful sitting in the backyard with my grandparents, admiring the Colorado sky...  

Whales!

Aatman finished his first clinical and had a little break, so we went to Carmel and Monterey Bay for a little getaway!  

Todd and Michelle had gotten us a whale watching trip for Christmas last year and a gift certificate to a nice dinner in Carmel for my birthday.  This seemed like the perfect opportunity to use both!

We headed down to the wharf and hopped on a boat for a 3 hour tour of mild seasickness and a bunch of whales!  We saw like 15!  It was a blast!!  

Dinner was at a cute little Italian restaurant in Carmel called Little Napoli.  All of the food was great but, I have to say, I'm still thinking about the artichoke we had as an appetizer...  Yum!!