You need to read this blog from the bottom up as these pics are in reverse order. Sorry! This picture Jared took for me as I was holding Devaney - I wanted a picture of the kids under the Bubba Gump Shrimp sign on Cannery Row in Monterey but he cut off the sign and just got the kids. All well. Monterey, California is where the condo time share was and where we spent the majority of our time. It was awesome!! As Jared said "one of the best family vacations we have been on". Very laid back for the most part - the kids swam in the heated pool in the condo at the end of each day, played at the beach, drove around seeing the beautiful coast scencery and we just had a good time.
Cool jellyfish at the aquarium. We actually saw a lot of jellyfish floating in the ocean when we were walking along the wharf.
Kiersten looking so BIG and cute at the aquarium.
Danica also looking so grownup and cute at the aquarium.
Myles getting even smarter because
he reads all the exhibits. Funny story about his BYU shirt -when we were in SF parking to go to Fisherman's Wharf some people drove by and started honking and yelling "go BYU"- they were BYU grads and all excited to see fellow BYU fans. (although it is hard to be a fan this year).
Lynnaea playing at the aquarium learning center.
This is the Splash ZOne - the kids were able to touch starfish, crabs, seacucumbers, manta rays, and sea kelp. It was a really awesome aquarium. We had a small mishap - the splash zone has a revolving door entrance and Jared had gone ahead with some of the other kids so it was just Kiersten, Anders and I. Anders walked to the revolving door and stuck his hand out like he was going to try to stop the door and YES I WAS THERE to pull him back but the little old lady volunteer and this other older couple walking by all gasped and were all upset and watched me very closely as I then maneuvered ANders, Kiersten, myself with Devaney in the baby carrier through the revolving door without mishap. (I am sure they thought he was going to be crushed).
Sunset from our condo.
Jared and kids playing at the beach by our condo.
What a good looking guy! This is on the 17 mile drive - it goes by Pebble Beach Golf Course (some fancy course they have big tournaments at) and by rich peoples mansions. (I didn't think to take any pictures of the mansions) You have to PAY to drive this area of the coast and see the fancy houses (the rich get richer as we pay to see their houses!) The beach area was cool and we saw black tail deer (two bucks and a does) on one of the golf courses along the drive. Jared thought that was cool.
California Sea lions.
On the dock at Cannery ROw.
Checking out the sea lions.
We took a detour on the way to Monterey to go to Big Tree State Park. A friend told us about it - it is redwood groves. He said just as good as "the Redwoods" - I don't know I haven't been to "the Redwoods" but these trees were beautiful and HUGE!
Danica by redwood tree.
Driving through the Sierra Nevada mountains on our detour to see the redwoods. The road was a little side road and it was crazy steep, curvy and narrow. Very much like the road we went on in Oregan that said "you could die driving this road". Lynnaea and I were both feeling carsick because the mountains never seemed to end. It was pretty spectacular scencery though.
We left Saturday the 18th at 6pm because we waited for Danica and Myles to finish their soccer and football games.
3 comments:
I look at these pics and all I can think is--oh my heck, Megs has SIX kids. SIX!!! I know Mom had nine, but seriously, six sounds like a lot at this point. A whole lot.
Awww that's so good to hear that it was a fun trip. Now you know you can handle it all cause you already had a trip with all six kids and it was a GOOD one, no less. Your kids are so cute.
That looked awesome, Megs!! So fun, I'm glad everything went well.
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