Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Cali Trip pics

Me and sleepy max at The Giant Artichoke


Deep-fried artichoke hearts... yummy with dip, but I personally prefer plain steamed with butter mmmmmmmmmmm...

Budding fields of Salinas

Strawberries...

And lettuce

Max having fun at Daddy's childhood park


Aquarium time with some fam



Max's first look at the giant aquarium

This fish...I kid you not... floated in this exact same position staring at Max for a good 5 mins!






The Special Seahorse Exhibit... soooo cool.





*Ahem*--mating season.

Aunty Linda, Me, Max, and Uncle Max (my baby's namesake)

Lunch at the wharf...mmmmm...clam chowder

Lover's Point... it was a gorgeous day--blue skies, sunny, not too cold (not very common for this area)





Swaying Sea Kelp



Floating sea otter eating his abalone


About a hundred basking sea lions at the pier... hands down one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed. I don't know how often they do that... but they were all the way up by the bathrooms next to the parking lot!




These two were havin' it out.

This guy's unintended faux-hawk made me laugh as he let the sun dry his coat



Like I said in my last post... I had a blast. And now you can see why :)

6 comments:

Amalie said...

yay! an update and pictures of your beautiful self! I am jealous that you never seem to age not fair.

Nicolette said...

Love the pics from your trip! Looks like your fam had an awesome time.

Los Alexander said...

I agree! you look like the Hermana Satomba I met in Oran how many years ago...??? 9 years ago.
Exactly the same- Lucky you!

Love the Aquarium pictures, we just visited the one in Baltimore and we all have fun.
Great pictures! Great white background!

Bek said...

these pics are beautiful. what kind of camera do you have?

satomblablabla said...

these were taken with a canon 50D

Molly said...

Gorgeous pictures Jessica! Don't know what kind of camera you have, but they're great!