Redondo Beach and The LA Museum of Natural History!!!

Where did last week go?

Really, it probably has been the fastest week of the year for me, and that is saying something!!!!
Maybe it is the fact that I had 5 straight days with no nausea and minimal headaches that helped, or the fact we kept busy and did stuff every day, or that I finally feel a little more settled, or some other reason - but I am glad it went fast.......mostly because that means I am 1 week closer to going to Utah to visit for our trip and I am WAY excited for that. But anyways....here is a little re-cap of our week and weekend, and then also today!

We went to the beach 3 days straight since it was great, warm weather!

The kids made friends and played with their toys one time - and yes, Griffi still insists on wearing his beanie even at the beach - awesome that it matches his swimmies huh!

We did a WHOLE lot of this......or at least I tried to rest like this at the beach, but with Griffin wanting to dive in the ocean every two seconds mostly Cash rested and I chased Griffin!

We basked in the sun and felt so great and warm, and also got to see about 10 dolphins one morning really close - they actually swam with the surfers that were out - it was awesome!!!

Ah! Some day when we go I will be able to do this and just soak up the rays!

Then on the weekend we decided to take the kids somewhere fun - we looked up a bunch of places and settled on the aquarium at Redondo Beach (it was the closest and quickest and Chip had 2 bball games to get back for!) So we headed off down south to the place. Cash was SO excited to see and touch the sharks. It was more of a water tank place, where we got to take a tour of exactly how we get our water here and see the plant - it was actually pretty interesting, although more for Chip and me then the boys.....then it was time to go on the live animal tour, where we could see and touch the water animals!

Here Cash is holding a blue sea star (actually NOT called a starfish, although that is the more common term we use!) It was interesting.

It was pretty neat, and I loved the jeweled sea-stars, they felt a little more soft and slimy, but didn't get a picture of them. Griff enjoyed touching all the animals too!

Here we are at the shark tank. In front of Cash was a baby shark - we touched it and the pregnant mother shark - they were both pretty small, but it was really interesting! They would both swim around and around and you could touch them - however, the mom was swimming around and when i was touching her she popped her head up out of the water as if to talk to me! Maybe she could sense another prego in her midst! It was pretty awesome. They weren't as smooth or slimy as I would have thought!

Here Griff is touching a shark egg. It looks like a sea-shell made out of seaweed, but was really neat to learn about - this one was empty!

It wasn't really much of an aquarium, but still fun for the kids and we spotted one of our FAVORITO food places to eat at on the way so we had to stop on the way home for a little of this yumminess!!! AHH! Pork salad never tasted so good!

So our weekend was great, and after the basketball games we just had fun hanging at home that night. The weekends always go way too quick for me!

Today was the start of another week- and the forecast was 55 and rainy all day so a lot cooler for us. I decided to take the kids on an adventure and go to the LA Museum of Natural History. Cash has been wanting to go for a long time and asks each week when we will go there! So we did it! It was actually great and a lot of fun! Worth the trip for sure!

One of our favorite exhibits - the elephants! The biggest elephant to date they have found weighed 26, 400 lbs. Wo!!!

Cash wanted to read about each animal and find out what they eat and where they live. It was actually pretty interesting!

Checking out how big his wing span was in a different section!

They had a place where you could touch animals and dinosaur bones and horns and things, and this polar bear was a part of it. The fur was actually very thick and tough, not soft really at all!

Our week should go quickly this week too, especially since I get to go on two dates with my husband this week! Happy leap year week!