Step 1. Take one lovely car.
Step 2. Put Dire Straits on the iPod.
Step 3. Cruise south on the freeway for a couple of hours.
Step 4. Arrive at the Jabberwock Inn in Monteray Bay. (http://www.jabberwockinn.com/the-borogove.htm)

WOW.

This hotel ROCKS. Big time. For starters, it's in one of the most gorgeous places in the entire world. Secondly, it's all based on the books of Lewis Carroll (duh). And last, but not least, it is owned 2 of the nicest people on the planet.

We arrived in the afternoon like a pair of zombies. 6pm their time = 2am ours. We were given a tour of the place, introduced to the other guests and shown to our room - the Borogrove (straight from Jabberwocky - my absolute fave). The bed was ENORMOUS, there was a jacuzzi in the room, and the most stunning view over the bay below. Awesome.

After a quick glass of wine and some nibbles downstairs we wandered down to the beach and to a brilliant fish restaurant for dinner - yummy. We just about managed to stay awake for the walk back up the steep hill to the hotel. Grumpy was asleep within about 8 seconds, while I had a soak in the jacuzzi. A word of warning. Even a tiny drop of bubble bath in a jacuzzi will have the bubbles up to the ceiling in no time! Seriously! Superb though, none the less.

I was fast asleep before 10pm (their time) and slept like the proverbial log till 8am Saturday. A lovely breakfast (complete with Jabber-juice!) and we were back to feeling normal again (well, almost!).

Dawn even sorted a couple of tickets to the Monteray Bay Aquarium - that place is AWESOME!!!! (Pics to be posted soon) :D