Tuesday, March 29, 2011

California and Monterey

Dallin and I are in California visiting my parents. We wanted to make a little trip to see them before Dallin turns 2 and can't fly for free anymore. We have had such a fun time. Dallin loves exploring a bigger house and getting into cabinets that aren't child locked. He loves going up and down (mostly up) the stairs and playing on the landing.
He likes to look down at people on the main floor. He'll stick his head through the bars too.
His head is not actually big enough to get stuck between the bars, but with his ears sticking out, he "thought" he was stuck and cried for help.

There is a gate at the top of the stairs to keep him from falling down, but he found a way to get around that.
He couldn't get his shoulders through so he was stuck like this.
(Don't you love that on two different occasions, when Dallin was stuck, I ran to get the camera instead of helping him first?)

On Saturday, we went to Monterey, California.
We ate lunch at the Fish Hopper Restaurant. You get a lovely view of the ocean from your table. I had some delicious crab legs and Dallin had some bread.

Then we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. There were lots of cool fish and things to see. Dallin really had a good time.
There was a little touch pool where you could reach in and touch the wildlife. Dallin liked to pick up the star fish and fling them around in the air.
I'm sure the starfish would have been screaming his head off in terror if he had a voice.

It's been rainy most of the time that I've been here in California, but the sky cleared up a little bit for us so that we could enjoy the ocean.

2 comments:

Katie said...

Dallin looks so big! And I love that he's getting into things. It looks like you guys have had a fun trip.

Karen C. said...

I've had so much fun looking at these pictures. I certainly enjoyed having Dallin (and you too, Sheri) here for a visit. Too bad about the rain, but that just means you'll have to come back in the summer so we can go to the beach!