The Day before Thanksgiving: Monterey Bay Aquarium

The day after the beach, Katie, Ryan and Lucas joined us to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  We started out with our traditional visit to the Fish Hopper for lunch.  As usual, it was very good.  I did not take any photos this time.  We then went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

One of our first stops was to see the large octopus.  It was out and very visible.

 We went to the part of the aquarium where the kids could go in a cave where it looked like they were in an aquarium.  Here are Madoc, Lucas and Sadie.

 Charlotte thought it was fun too.

 Lucas really enjoyed playing with Sadie and Madoc, but especially liked staying close to Sadie.

 Then it was Charlotte’s turn for a ride on the sea horse.

 They had an area where the “kids” could dress up like fish.  Neil liked that part.

There is a place where waves crash over a glass covered area.  The kids really like being under the crashing waves.

 One of my favorite areas is the jellyfish.  They are so pretty.

 These are the moon jellies.  We swam through a large school, flock or herd of moon jellies while scuba diving in St. Thomas.  Maybe that is one of the reasons this area makes me think of happy thoughts.

 After the aquarium, another happy part of the trip is to get hot fudge sundaes at Ghirardelli’s which is very close to the Fish Hopper.  It is always delicious.

It was a very fun day, especially because I was able to spend the day with four grandchildren.