Today I spent the day with my three-year-old neice, Makayla. Jim and I had picked her up last night in Murrieta and brought her back to our house to spend the night at Auntie and Uncle Jimmy’s house. She didn’t know what we were going to do but we started the day off with breakfast and cartoons and then headed out to the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla. This was both of our first times visiting the aquarium. When you drive down from Torey Pines Road you have an amazing view of the La Jolla bluffs and the Pacific Ocean. Upon entering the aquarium there are two extremely life-like Grey whales towering over you as you purchase tickets. When we entered we started to enter into the Hall of Fishes and Makayla really did not want anything to do with it. I think she really got overwhelmed with all the kids from the day camps and with the darkness. So, we headed outside and experienced the tide pools and all they had to offer. It was really neat because you can touch anything that lives within the tide pools. Today we saw an amazingly beautiful black octopus, hermit crabs, bright colored star fish (which one worker took out and placed into a bucket for Makayla to touch, it brought me back to the first time I touched a star fish…awww) many different types of fish, lobsters, crabs, prickly and sticky purple sea urchins, coral and tons of kelp. We soon left the picturesque cliffs and drove a little further down and decided to climb down the La Jolla Coves to the beach. Once down there Makayla played in the sand and got so excited that the water “kept washing her footprints away”. We played down there for a while and then headed to my work where she ate for the third time and somehow managed to eat 3/4 of a personal pizza, I guess this little one has her momma’s appetite! We left there and about five minutes after non-stop talking she was finally asleep. Overall, today was awesome! I truly miss seeing Makayla everyday, she definitely is one of a kind with her unconditional love and caring and not to mention her views from her three-year-old mind. What a great day!
Outside at the aquarium visiting the tide pools
I didn’t get pictures of all the neat sea life but this fish was so cool!
Touching a star fish for the first time
Down at the beach at the LJ Coves
CHHEEEEEESSSSE!
And then she sleeps. . .
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