Sea World

Sea World gives all active duty military and their families a free day at their park. You pick the day and just go. We picked yesterday since Brent had the day off for Columbus Day and most of the schools didn't. It was a great time to go. Not too crowded but the weather was fabulous. The shows were awesome. It made our whale watching trip of last week seem a little sad but there is something special and different about seeing these animals in the wild. Shamu was of course our favorite. These animals are so huge yet graceful.








Morgan really enjoyed watching the animals and it was fun pointing them out to her. She only went on one ride but didn't seem too disappointed about it.


Brent loved this picture of her and the Beluga. It swam right over to her and it was like they were just checking each other out.

The new Blue Horizons show was really neat. There were a lot more people involved in the show doing high platform diving and trapeze type stuff but it was cool. The Dolphins are always fun to watch. I think we appreciate them more now that we have been able to see them pretty up close in the ocean lately while at the beach.








I'm glad we got to go but I don't think we'll need to go again for a while. Thanks Sea World!

MHS 10 years class reunion

Sadly the pictures I took turned out really poorly but I felt I needed to share a little anyway. For memories sake.
Megan and Melissa

The cheerleaders

Tiffany



One of my best friends had a baby two days before the reunion so I got to see her and her new baby while I was in Manteca. The timing turned out great and he was beautiful. Congrats Melissa and Sean!

Happy Birthday Brent!

Yes, his birthday was in June but for his birthday present, he got a whale watching trip. We finally went in Monterey last week and had a great time. The whales got pretty close to the boat and there were at least 20 in the water in viewing distance. These were Humpback whales. Enjoy!







After we went whale watching, we headed over to the Charlie Brown Park to let Morgan burn off some energy. She had a great time with dad because I was still getting over my sea sickness. The seas were a little rough.

This weekend we headed up to Manteca to go to my 10 year class reunion. We decided to make a trip out of it. We headed up to LA after work on Thursday and after way too long in the car due to traffic, we made it to the Griffith Observatory. It's right by Hollywood and the view was fantastic.


Friday morning we headed up the coast to Big Sur. We stopped at a few places along the way and checked out the views, saw the elephant seals, and took some pictures. It truly is a beautiful place.







We drove up to Monterey and stayed at the Naval Postgraduate School. The Gateway Inn was beautiful. The building was very ornate with these great gardens right out our balcony. We look forward to going back and staying there again.



More posts on our Whale watching trip and the reunion to come.

Big Girl Bed

We put Morgan in a big girl bed about two weeks ago but she's still not consistently sleeping in it. We start out there every nap and night but she only sleeps in it about half the time. We still like to have the crib in there as a threat but I guess we'll have to take it out eventually.

Bay Cruise and USS Mercy

One of Brent's friends from elementary school and his family came over from LA for the day. Brian Allred was also in town so we went on a by cruise and to the USS Mercy. We had a great time. Morgan loved pushing all the buttons.