Day #2 - The Aquarium

Bryan and I have a problem. We wake up at 5 a.m. every morning so when we go on vacation we still wake up at 5 a.m. in the morning. NOTHING IS OPEN that early. On Friday, we had tickets to the Monterey Aquarium. It didn't open until 10 a.m. So took our time getting ready, walked around the hotel and took photos, went to the cafe downstairs of the hotel for some breakfast (again, a coffee place makes TERRIBLE hot chocolate) and then went walking.

Bryan took his tennis shoes which were about 10 years old. They had holes and he was hating life as we were walking around. So we sat on a bench and watched the seals and the waves until a shoe store opened at 10 a.m. Then I got some new shoes (hey, they were on sale!) and Bryan got some new tennis shoes. We ran back to the hotel (we didn't have a car because everything was close) to drop off the shoes and then went to the Aquarium.

It was really neat. They had a lot of huge tanks full of animals. We saw sharks and all kinds of fish, sea stars, I got to pet a sting ray, we saw sea horses and all kinds of things. It was great. We went to lectures on sharks and the ocean. I kept thinking how cool Ethan would think this was.

We spent a few hours at the Aquarium before buying some gifts for the kids and leaving to get lunch. We ate a little cafe near the Aquarium and I had the best clam chowder in a huge bread bowl! That's the life.

We went back to the hotel and took a nap (Bryan watched football and napped) and then we went to a movie (Harry Potter with the first 15 minutes in 3D). We were pretty hungry after the movie and didn't want anything near the hotel, so we hiked for a while until we found a pizza place. We got a small pizza and a drink and then walked back to the hotel to eat.

It was a fun day!