When we left San Jose we surprised the kids by taking a detour from where they thought would be our next stop and headed instead to the Monterey Bay to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium (we were only an hour away, how could we not?!?!). Boy was there a lot to see and do there!
Favorites of the day, for M it was the Jellyfish exhibit; Li'l J was thrilled to watch the penguin's during their feeding time (he has recently developed an obsession with penguin's); and C-sta loved watching the sea otters.
As we were loading up the car to leave and drive inland again, a very tame seagull approached me at the trunk of our car. When I ignored it, he waddled around to the side of the car where J-rod was helping to buckle C-sta into her booster. When he ignored it, it hopped up onto the hood of our car and just eyed us so of course I pulled out my camera and snapped a few pictures. He even stayed on the hood of the car as J-rod started up the car. Once we pulled out of our parking spot the seagull finally flew away but not before giving us all a good chuckle as we waited to see how long it would ride along with us!
Our first visit to Monterey Bay and its Aquarium.
Favorites of the day, for M it was the Jellyfish exhibit; Li'l J was thrilled to watch the penguin's during their feeding time (he has recently developed an obsession with penguin's); and C-sta loved watching the sea otters.
Jelly's!
I loved the sea horses!
Such cute little penguins.
Ocean life
An octopus's garden
Otter-mania!
Cannery Row, Monterey Bay, Ca.
A parking meter.
J-rod and I hadn't seen one of these is a long time. So my reaction was, "People still use these?". It was fun to see how it's been updated to reflect the time we live in. Our kids of course had NO idea what it was!
A last look at the beautiful bay.
We enjoyed our time in Monterey Bay, Ca.
As we were loading up the car to leave and drive inland again, a very tame seagull approached me at the trunk of our car. When I ignored it, he waddled around to the side of the car where J-rod was helping to buckle C-sta into her booster. When he ignored it, it hopped up onto the hood of our car and just eyed us so of course I pulled out my camera and snapped a few pictures. He even stayed on the hood of the car as J-rod started up the car. Once we pulled out of our parking spot the seagull finally flew away but not before giving us all a good chuckle as we waited to see how long it would ride along with us!
"Feed me? Feed me. Feed ME!"
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