Visit from My Seester

 Beginning of October we were blessed by my sister's family's presence. They flew in  one weekend, we went to the beach and California Pizza Kitchen. The original plan was to go to the aquarium, but I messed up big time on that front. The Air Force ITT office isn't open on the weekends, we needed a reservation, and well, it didn't work out. The beach was still great! Sadly I didn't get any photos of that visit. They then took their rented car to Yosemite for the week and had a blast there. When they came back, it was close to Leah's birthday so we bought her a cake to celebrate. Here are all the cousins!

I made sure to make the aquarium work this Saturday. Sadly Sam couldn't come this time. Devery also had to get to the airport in the afternoon so we didn't have a lot of time. I'll talk about it through the photo captions.

There was a touch pool for rays and sharks!

A hit with the kids, they loved coloring fish and seeing them appear on the big screen.

Like I said, they loved it!

There was a life-sized blue whale model hanging above us.

Looking at the many tide pool exhibits.

Really cool sea creatures here!

Huge crabs here!

The Panama Golden Frog. A really cool frog that waves to the ladies
to mate with them. Sadly, they are all extinct in the wild
due to a lethal fungal infection.

Eli hanging with the frogs.

My favorite dart frog: the blue poison dart frog.

Another favorite of mine, the White's tree frog.

Beautiful sea life.

A touch pool.

Black lights make them stand out.

Hello, friend.

We were so excited to spot a bonnet-head shark,
the smallest kind of hammerhead shark!

There she is!

It's a beautiful aquarium and we ended up getting season passes. We didn't get to see everything, hence getting a pass. We went to a stir-fry place for lunch, and then Devery and Easton sped off to the airport just in time. We had a wonderful time with them and grateful that we have a place to host people when they come into town!