Valentine's Day was pretty fun, with a lot of adventure mixed in! Uly had the awesome idea of going whale watching in Long Beach and then to the aquarium. GREAT ideas, but they did not mix with almost 2 year old Oliver! Whale watching was fun, but he just wanted to run around the whole time and I just was terrified that he would some how run off of the boat, haha. We saw a few whales which was cool, but then on our way back in we were SURROUNDED by what had to be 3 or 4 pods of dolphins, just hundreds of them swimming alongside our boat, it was SO COOL. I tried to get some pictures but my camera was just too slow. :( The aquarium was really neat, and Oliver was captivated by the fish! Uly and I got to pet a few sting rays, and some other fish, and got to see some pretty cool tide pools with huge starfish in them! Here's some pictures from our day!
This is the weirdest picture to date of Oliver and it cracks Uly up every time he sees it. It's a combination between him just waking up and a weird angle which equals awesomeness!
"Helping" in the kitchen
What's Valentine's Day without pink waffles??
Waiting to board the boat. Uly was such a good sport! He was sick, but still insisted that we go and put up with my crazy hyper kid the whole boat ride!
This is right about where we realized this was not going to be the idyllic, romantic whale watching trip we had imagined, lol.
We still manged to get some really cute pictures, though.
And of course, gave lots of sympathy to poor, poor Oliver who wasn't allowed to run around the boat. What mean parents!
This is the best-ish picture I got of the dolphins.
Yup, we're mean.
