Our Vacation

We had a pretty good vacation! I have a bruised rib from coughing so much, so I had a hard time walking places, but it was ok. Getting into the pool helped calm down my pain somewhat. The trip up and back was great! We're definitely taking the same route next time as opposed to to taking 276 all the way there. This time, we used 25-26-40-19-441. It sounds complicated, but it's alot less windy and mountainous. I almost filled up my camera memory card between the Ripley's Aquarium and the Star Cars Museum. I have around 100 pictures from the aquarium and about 40 or so from Star Cars and a few random scenery/Josh/Carri pictures.

Star Cars Museum had the Dorothy I blue and yellow truck from Twister and the Ghostbusters car! Those were my favorite. They also had the front half of the Christine car buried in a wall. They also had one of the Delorians from Back to the Future and the Jurassic Park SUV that gets rammed by the T-Rex. It was alot more fun than I thought it might have been. If I can figure out how, I'll submit my pictures here and you can see for yourself.

Ripley's Aquarium was just as fun this time as it was the first time we went! I loved the spotted Manta Rays, going through the tunnel watching the sharks and sawfish come right up to your face. I took some awesome pictures of them. I took a 15 second video of a baby manta ray (I love the pseudo smiles they have on their undersides). I got the best video and picture of an orange octopus. I had a good video of hammerhead sharks and manta rays, but I accidentally deleted it!! We also saw puffer fish, sea dragons, angler fish, live barnacles, sea anemones, blue tangs (Dorrie from Finding Nemo), jellyfish, barracudas, spider crabs, moray eels and giant groupers. We saw alot more, but that's all I have on camera.

I'll write more about our vacation later.