Aquarium of the Bay

The day started with donuts, which almost all brilliantly awesome days do. The littles were so excited and of course licked every ounce of chocolate frosting off before nibbling the bread. Awesome. T always ends up looking like the joker after eating anything with frosting!

Then the boys and I jumped in the car headed straight to San Fran. I was able to get free tickets to the Aquarium from the Palo Alto Library. T was mostly the most excited boy ever, although it was Everett that left his shark hat on his head for much of the trip!

The Aquarium is small (we saw every exhibit twice and still only stayed for an hour) but it was free for us and had everything Talmage wanted to see (Nemo, a shark and an octopus). The HUGE crabs were a bonus.

My favorite part of any aquarium is always the jellyfish. They are so gorgeous and I love how they move.

T and Evie were totally excited about touching the giant starfish in the tide pools. They would get so excited for each other, and for themselves!

After an hour, we headed out to look at the boats and eat some lunch. It was a super warm fall day in San Fran and there were lots of boats going out to enjoy the weather.

T and Ev got to pick one treat to share (do you like how I pretend that Evie had a say, poor kid!) They both loved the cotton candy which T said tasted like strawberry and Evie licks instead of eats.

And this was my treat: a veg crepe (filled with tomato, spinach and avocado) and a blue raspberry icee. Yum!

Talmage zonked as soon as we hit the freeway. Slept like a angel-baby the whole way home. Evie sobbed the whole way home. When I picked him up from his carseat he was burning up. High fever. Doctors visit. Still not quite sure what's causing it. At least we got in one fun day before more sickness entered our house!