From working all the time to almost never.....

I guess Josh deserves to have a break after all the hard work that he has done on the submarine....but we didn't realize that he was going to have it this good!!! Like I mentioned in the previous post, Josh checked into NPS on Friday and got his school schedule....and here it is:

Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tuesday and Thursday 8:00am - 10:00am and then 1:00-3:00pm
Friday NOTHING

Don't you wish you had that kind of schedule?!?!?! Thats only 16hrs a week!!! Although he will have to put in more time for studying....he still has a pretty good schedule! I'm glad though that he gets a break for a little bit...he more than deserves this time. As for me....I will be looking for a job soon....not sure what I want to do...nothing perminent obviously....since we are only here for 18months....but I will be finding something once our stream of visitors dies down....although anyone is welcome to come and visit anytime.....I am SOO excited about my visitors this summer.....Christie and Eric the day after tomorrow.....my parents the beginning of August....and Rachel the end of August....not to mention our trip to Colorado the first weekend of August for Amanda(Josh's Step sister) and Ben's wedding!! I can't wait to see everyone...both in Colorado and visitors here! Well...that is all for now....gonna go practice my Mario Kart...gonna play via the wi-fi with Christie and Eric later! Hope everyone has a good week....I will probably not update again until next Tuesday when Christie and Eric leave!

Love and Hugs,
Amanda and Josh

More from Monterey....

Sorry for the lack of updating lately. Josh and I have been busy hanging out and just learning more about the area. I'm able to update because Josh went to check in at school this morning. So now we will hopefully know what his schedule will be like. All we know right now is that he has orientation on Tuesday. He is excited and not.....he is excited to get back to school since he loves it so much but not too excited to have to go back to work....he and I have enjoyed him being home all the time and being able to do whatever when want. Not much else is going on here...we finally have our place all set up.....and are ready for our first set of visitors. Christie and Eric come to visit on Wednesday so they will be here to celebrate the July 4th holiday with us. And...we bought a grill....its AMAZING....Josh cooked steaks last night on it and they were TO DIE FOR! We both thought that they were some of the best steaks that we have ever had! Well...thats all for now...here are a few more pictures:

View from Lover's Point....the trees here are so neat!
Josh touching the Pacific Ocean for the first time......
A seal swimming outside out boat on the glass bottom boat we went on
More Sea Lions!
Monterey Sunset!

I have never seen so many beautiful flowers..and so many...this is one of Josh's favorites....besides his most favorite which is birds of paradise!
We had a huge heat wave...and no one around here has a/c...including us....so I think Ollie was hot....he has never done this before.....
Out on the water with last weekend's storm coming in...the lightning from this storm was the cause of several of the fires around here!

A few Pictures

Here are just a few pictures we have taken...I will explain each below:


Just the waves....
The sea otter we watched on our walk this morning...he wanted lots of attention!

Josh liked that the seals were on the rocks...
Our first friend we met just below our feet while sitting on a bench near the water...Josh was playing tug-o-war with him with a weed...kinda funny...not sure what he is!?
more water, waves and rocks.....
and again.....

view from our guest room.....

outside....side view of our townhomes.....
cloudy morning...this was from our walk this morning
coming home from our walk.....
we found some more sea otters....we think they are fun to watch

Busy...Busy....Busy....

Well...most of you already know but Josh and I finally have a home here in Monterey! We found a place this past Monday....it is a townhouse....not exactly what we wanted but we are really enjoying it. It is two stories and has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.....there is a balcony off both rooms and off the living room all with ocean views....we are 5 blocks from the ocean, Cannery Row, the Monterey Aquarium, IMAX, and lots of shopping and restraunts! We haven't yet got a chance to explore....we have been so busy trying to get our place together. We got the keys on Monday evening and our stuff came the very next morning.....the movers were here until like 5 or so on Tuesday. On Wednesday we started to get things unpacked and went to the commissary to get some groceries so that we wouldn't have to eat out the whole week......although our wonderful friends Bonnie and Noel that already live here had us over several times for dinner,breakfast, etc.....we are so thankful for them...they have helped us out in so many ways! Also on Wednesday we drove up to San Lorenzo (1.5hrs) to get Josh's car....and on our way back we stopped in Sunnyvale to visit college friends of mine that I have not seen in like 3 years or so. We hung out at Bubba and Elizabeth's catching up....meeting their new baby girl Keela...who is absolutely adorable....and then we all went and had dinner together at a burger place right up the street from where they live. It was so nice to be able to spend time with them and to catch up....and hopefully we will get to hang out with them a lot more now that we are only about an hour drive from one another! Thursday we spent the entire day unpacking and getting things together.....the same on Friday. I got to skype with my parents and show them around a little and then I got to skype with Rachel, Kyle, Christie, and Eric! It was good to be able to see them...via the computer and talk to them and show them around a little! I miss you guys so much...and skyping made me realize that again....even though Rachel has already replaced our friendship with others 3 times over! I'll forgive you....and when you realize they are NOTHING compared to me...I will accept you back!;) Well...that brings us to today....we spent the morning doing some more unpacking until I was about to go crazy from being in this place all week and doing anything else.....Josh and I decided to take a walk and then go see Sea Monsters 3D at the IMAX. It was really neat and was a lot of fun to get out for a little bit. Now we are back home and continuing to get this place together. We only have about 2 weeks before our first visitors come....Christie and Eric are coming for the July 4th weekend. It should be a lot of fun. Well...better get back to telling Josh where I want things before he does it all wrong;) HaHa! I'll try to get some pictures up and update more frequently!