Aquarium of the Bay

A couple weeks back we thought we'd check out the Aquarium of the Bay which is a small aquarium at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

We especially liked the long tunnels where we were walked under the water and had fish all around us.

Mia was still hanging onto her noise maker from a New Year's party we went to :) This is by the fish that are really territorial...they pick one spot and then spend their whole lives there! Weird.

A little too close for my liking...

Norah was a trooper in the stroller the whole time...

After the aquarium we ate lunch at Pier 39 and enjoyed walking along the water.

Not quite a Winter Wonderland...

A bit back I had heard an ad on the radio about a place not too far away that had some sledding runs made out of artificial snow. They also said they had a kids snow play area. So we decided to go check it out since Mia hadn't really experienced snow much... and snow is hard to come by in the Bay Area within a decent drive from us. So we took a chance a couple weeks ago ....unfortunately it didn't quite live up to the hype. Below is the kids play area... and yes only that tiny mound in the middle is snow... the rest is white carpet...

We slid down the tiny mound while ice pellets were shot at us from the snow maker...

Then we gave up on the snow and went sledding down the white carpet...

You don't go too fast on carpet...

Yes.... carpet!!

It wasn't quite all that I'd hoped it would be... but it certainly was memorable. Good thing we got to go to Utah last weekend so Mia could play in REAL snow :)

Mia the Photographer

Mia has loved taking pictures lately... and so to save our camera, Mia was given a kids camera for Christmas. Following are some of my favorite pictures from the batch...


This was us on the web cam with my mom and sisters who were in Germany for Christmas


Mia helped wrap a gift ...


A self portrait...


She's a girl who LOVES her shoes...


And a girl who loves her daddy :)