Family Road Trip ~ California Academy of Sciences ~ What An Amazing Museum!

Today I am sharing pictures from our road trip...taken at the California Academy of Sciences.  What an amazing museum! We saw a show in the Planetarium about Earthquakes. (The show is included in the admission to get into the museum too.) Tip: You want to go get your tickets for the show as soon as you get in to the museum since it's first-come, first-served. After the show we went to the room where they simulate an earthquake. This room was a big hit with my children...which I find a little funny since we've had a few earthquakes (we live in San Diego) that my children have felt. I guess it's more fun when you pay to have an earthquake. They also have a living roof, a rainforest dome (which is 3 stories tall), and an aquarium (which was more amazing then the one in Long Beach). If you are in San Francisco you'll want to put this museum on your list of places to see! You won't be disappointed! At least my family and I loved it. Ps. I am not getting paid to say this either. :)   

(Ps. This handsome guy is my hubby!)

Took A Family Road Trip ~ First Stop Along The Way!

I thought today I'd share a few photos from our family road trip. We took 2 days and rode up to San Francisco spent 4 full days in Mill Valley / San Francisco area, and then took 2 days to drive back to San Diego. We had a fabulous time! On the ride up we went up Hwy 101, and then on the ride home we took Hwy 1. We made a bunch of stops each way and saw a ton of beautiful views (beautiful doesn't even cover the views we saw!). Every time I think about how expensive it is to live in California...I think there really isn't any other place I'd rather be. Not to say that there isn't any other nice places...because there are a ton of great places. I just love California weather...and the ocean.

So, todays photos are from the Long Beach Aquarium "Aquarium Of The Pacific". This was the first place we stopped at along the way. We spent a few hours checking out the Aquarium. I'm only going to post a few photos...as a scrapbooker I took way too many to post all of them! Let's just say we had to buy a 4th chip so I'd have enough space for all my pictures. :) Hope you enjoy them! I know my family and I had a great time making the memories together and I can't wait to scrapbook all of them. I do plan to use Studio J for a bunch of them so I can have them scrapbooked...before we go next year on another trip.