the Jorgensens: Aquarium trip

Daddy and Daughter

Dru had this past Friday off so we decided to take Mina to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This was the first time she got to experience it outside of my belly and awake. She really enjoyed it. Had she not been so tired she probably would have enjoyed it even more. We invited our friends Michelle and Ethan to go with us. Mina really likes Ethan. We also invited our new friend Inga. She just moved here from Indonesia and married one of Dru's friends. She is a very sweet girl and the babies loved her.

We got to see the sea horse exhibit, the big shark tank, jelly fish, sea otters, the kelp forest, bat rays, and much, much more. Mina really loved looking at everything. There was one point when we were looking at the jelly fish and a little girl walked up next to us. Mina saw her and turned to her and tried to grab her. She couldn't reach her, but she just kept staring at her and smiling waiting for her to look at her. The girl just would not look at her and smile back. I guess little kids are more interested in the cool jelly fish than cute little babies. There were plenty of other people there that gave her the attention she desired. She really loves to have people smile at her and tell her how cute she is.

Jelly Fish

Staring at the big shark tank.

One of the sharks in the tank.

Ethan napping.

Ethan decided to take a little nap in the middle of the trip. Ethan really seems to like to sleep and if he wants to sleep he will. At least that's how it seems whenever we get to babysit him. It's funny because Mina is quite the opposite. She doesn't like to sleep unless she absolutely has to. If there's stuff going on, she wants to be in the middle of it. Needless to say, she got a little fussy in her stroller because she was so tired while we were there, so we put her in her carrier and Dru carried her the rest of the time with kept her quite happy, because she could see everything. Maybe we'll get to go one more time before we leave Monterey.

Mina just loved this seahorse statue.

Ethan, Michelle, seahorse, Mina and Dru.

The babies were facinated!

Giddy-up!

Well hello giant seahorse.

Dru loves to touch all the sea creatures. It looks like it's Mina's hand, though.

Mina was drooling a lot and her nose was very runny. Poor girl.

Swimming with the fish.

Dru and I have a picture of the 2 of us (3 if you count Mina when she was very tiny in my belly) in this shell the from the first time we went to the aquarium.