Monterey

We went to Monterey to go to the aquarium. It was fun. We played in a park and swam in the hotel pool and went to the Aquarium both days for a total of seven hours of wrestling Sam. The girls loved it. Hannah loves nature and sat and watched this eel for like 20 minutes. They dressed up in fish aprons, explored, made things and just had a blast! Really, they had so much fun and hopefully learned a little bit too!

I thought it would be a good idea to go down for two days. But it turns out we could have done most of what we wanted to do in a day trip. Staying in a hotel is so much fun for the girls though...they think hotels are fancy. When we got to Monterey, we decided to find a park to let the kids get some energy out...Dennis the Menace park which was a really nice park. They had fun climbing equipment and an old train we could play in. The kids had fun. Sam got dirty so he was right at home! Also, poor Sam had to wear a girl coat again because he got his all wet. Everyone is going to think we are raising a cross dresser with how often he wears that purple flower coat.










The Aquarium was so fun. The girls loved all the hands-on stuff that there was available and Sam loved this jumping water bed thing they had in the baby area.





There was this sun fish that was huge and bizarre.




Sam liked the Jelly Fish. They had this mirrored room that made it look like the Jellies went on for a really long time. It sort of mixed up Sam, and he walked right into the wall. Twice. The girls kept wanting to make him do it again but he wisened up. We got a good laugh. I wish we'd gotten a picture!




We, of course, did the 17 mile drive and Cyrus convinced himself he should play at Pebble Beach but I said no. That guy looked up and found a time he could play and was conviced it was a good idea. Its a good thing someone keeps their head around here! We took a picture near the golf course instead.