Seattle

Kyle and I went on vacation to Seattle to watch Cirque du Soliel. We dropped Genevieve off with Grandma Barer for the weekend and had a fun weekend with time to ourselves (we did miss Genevieve but knew we would see her soon so we didn't let it get us down too much).

She had a lot of fun at Grandma's house.

She got to play a lot.

And eat sweet things like whipped cream.

Here is Kyle and me outside of the circus tents.

We watched the show Kooza. It was probably the most exciting Cirque du Soleil we have seen yet. (It was our third show)

Cloudy Seattle and the space needle.

We went to the Aquarium. The touch tanks are fun.

We got to become scuba divers. Well not for real, but for the pictures.

We drove by Safeco field and could hear the game going on inside. The Mariners lost...again. :(

Our Vacation Day Two

Our second day of vacation was a pretty relaxing, laid back day. We started by going out tide pooling at 9:00. It was nice having low tide so late in the morning because we were able to sleep in a little it longer than usual. There was so much neat and new stuff to see that we stayed out at the ocean until lunch time. After lunch we went and walked around all of the shops in Bandon. Bandon is a very small town so it did not take very long to see all of the shops they have. Then we decided since it was too late in the afternoon to go to any of the nearby towns and do stuff there that we would go back to the beach, where we walked a very long distance and both got a little sunburned. Here are some of my favorite pictures and videos from tide pooling and exploring the beach.

Of course there were birds on the beach.

You can't have pictures of the sea without a picture of seagulls.Vultures

When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.

A very close encounter with Sea Lion.

We barely had enough time to take this picture of me before the rock filled up with water.

Here are several crabs we came across
There is a crab hiding in this rock.

These were really pretty although we don't know for sure what they are. Their skin felt leathery with marble-like shells.

A snail

We could hear the barnacles talking.

Starfish kisses for the baby.

A sunstar.

We both got stuck in quicksand a couple of times.