Sealife and Ice Cream

Took the day off work and went down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with Jeremy. It is a pretty popular aquarium. My roommate told me they even had a great white shark there at one point. Anyways their newest exhibit is sea otters!
They are so f'n cute! They like to float around on their backs and look all cute and cute cute CUTE! ack! Just in case you don't believe me, check out this youtube fav:
I didn't see that happen while I was there, but, that's ok..
Another highlight was watching this guy: move around the glass. I accidentally took this photo with my flash, didn't realize the setting I chose had auto flash. Poor Mr. Octopus.
I was also really impressed with all their jellyfish! They are mesmerizing to watch swim around. They really freak me out in nature, I can only imagine one of them wrapping their long tendrils around my leg and stinging me to death. However, these photos are just so surreal.

I think the highlight of the entire trip was experiencing what they call the Ocean Sunfish. Jeremy and I decided it looked like some floating rock blubber type creature reject from the neverending story. I could only sort of capture its oddness on film.



Another bonus to the aquarium. Monterey is fricken pretty.

After all that fun, we grabbed some awesome food at Blue Moon on Cannery Row. I had one of the best Ahi Tuna sandwiches ever! Then it was off to Santa Cruz for some old school arcade games. I'd like to point out I beat Jeremy 3 times in a row at air hockey. Then he schooled me at pretty much every other game we played. I was disappointed to find out that the skeeball room was closed! What the hell?!

We finished off right though at the local creamery - Marianne's. I had some delicious caramel ice cream with fudge swirl and oreo mix complimented with bittersweet chocolate.
Talk about some happy campers!