Aquarium Of The Pacific

I don't think I've blogged about something I did the same day for a long time, so as of right now I'm officially caught up.  Today we went to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.

Alex loved running around the aquarium.  I wish we lived closer because I would buy a membership.

I let him feel an eel and he wasn't so sure.

Penguin Love.

My favorite fish exhibit.

It was a good day at the aquarium followed by $1.50 Tuesday Tacos at Cafe Rio and a little shopping at World Market afterwards.  

Alex's new thing is the dishwasher.  I have to make sure it's closed or this happens.  He kept pushing the start button over and over again until Al out smarted him and figured out it had a lock button.  Maybe in a few more months he can empty it for me :)

Baseball

Al played in a baseball game last weekend.  On our way we stopped at In N Out and Alex ate his grilled cheese like a big boy.

Al is the only guy I know that can still fit into his high school baseball pants from 12 years ago.  He put them on, I laughed and said you haven't gained an ounce in 12 years?  

Alex was in heaven playing and running around in the dirt, nightmare.

Al was back in his element until he hurt his knee at the end of the game.  He could barely walk for 2 days so he went to an orthopedic surgeon and found out he tore his MCL :(   The bad news is he has an Ironman in 5 weeks and the good news is a torn MCL only takes 3 weeks to heal.  Cross your fingers for Al that his knee heals fast and he can finish the race without coming home in a wheelchair.

Why do boys like dirt?  

Baseball player in training. Love my Al's

Fun Fun and More Fun

I thought I should start out with a picture to make everyone laugh. Al and I were sitting in traffic on the 5 when Al spotted this guy. All of the sudden traffic didn't matter and I was like NO WAY!! How in the world is that guy riding a bullet bike? How is that bike even moving? Those are all questions I asked myself when I saw him. Trying to be discrete I quickly pulled out my camera and zoomed in as fast as I could. At least he's wearing a helmet.
Al and I went to the Red Bull Flugtag competition in Long Beach last Saturday. I stole all the following pictures from various websites. Although we were there it was hard to see anything because there were thousands and thousands of people EVERYWHERE!! 2 words to describe the competition....Hot and crowded. Next time I'm for sure watching it on tv. I can't handle large groups of smelly sweaty people standing too close to me anymore.
This plane is awesome even though I didn't see it while we were there...lol
I'm not sure if any of the planes actually flew or if they all just went straight down as soon as they went off the ramp.
On Saturday night we went to the Cary Brothers concert at the Troubadour. The first time I watched Garden State and heard Blue Eyes I immediately became a Cary Brothers fan. I always envisioned there being 2 or 3 brothers, but Cary Brothrs is actually his name...lol
Here he is singing Blue Eyes

Cary was sooo good and concerts at the Troubadour are awesome. and here he is singing ride which is also another one of his big hits.

Here he is with his band which is also known as Harper Blynn. The keyboard guy standing next to Cary was so entertaining. Watch him closely in the videos above.

My mom and Matthew were in Carlsbad for his son's wedding so we got to meet up with them on Sunday and spend the day with them. We had breakfast at Broken Yolk Cafe which came highly recommended on Yelp. Thank you Yelp for helping me find another yummy restaurant.
After breakfast we went and hung out at Carlsbad Beach which was beautiful. We looked really cool in our jeans. Of course it was a perfect beach day and I didn't have my swimsuit.
Matthew and my mom

Al building a sand castle. I've never seen him having so much fun in the sand.

His sand castle turned out to be the Iron Man symbol!!
All of us.....It was so much fun to spend the day with them. Too bad it's always sad to say goodbye, but that's ok because we will be in Utah next weekend. Yayyyyy so excited. I don't know if Al will be able to get me to come back to California.