Aquarium = Awesome. And occasionally scary

Hi all. I haven't posted for over THREE WEEKS. Sorry about that. Remember how we were out of town? Yeah, and then we had visitors, and had to run all around with them (had to. Uh huh.), and play board games and stuff. So... hi!

Visitors - Ben & Martha came to visit us for New Year's, and then stayed to help us do the first week of the year in style. We don't see them nearly enough, and having them puttering around the house and the kitchen long enough that we actually kinda got used to having them around was really nice. Mostly we cooked and ate and played board games (wow, do we ever need some new Cranium clay) and watched football, but we also took a few short trips.

Saturday we went to Santa Cruz, to Natural Bridges, checked out some tide pools, and saw a bonus gopher.

Sunday was the farmers market. And football. Monday we sent them off to the wilds of the East Bay alone while we went to work. I think Thursday we ran a few errands. But before all that there was Friday.

Friday we went to one of Finn's favorite places in the universe - the Monterey Bay Aquarium. If you've been there, you're familiar with their Outer Bay tank. It's huge - a million gallons, in fact. It's where they keep their big sharks, tunas, sea turtles, and the ocean sunfish. So Finn's standing with his face right up against the glass (a coveted position, let me tell you) and the ocean sunfish, which everyone is excited to see, starts to float up RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. It's bigger than him, pretty wonky looking, and has this Giant. Creepy. Eyeball.

Finn lets out with this scream of utter terror which I can only approximate as "ooaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!," clearly convinced that this monster was going to eat him, and whirls around to throw himself into Jonathan's arms. Man, I wish I had video. You'll have to settle for this version, and take my word for it that everyone around us thought it was hilarious. And if you call us, we can do the scream for you.

More on Flickr, as usual. And somewhere I have a video of Finn busily pushing the popcorn popper all around the kitchen... I'll try to unearth it this weekend.