Home & Away: Monterey Bay Aquarium

Last week, Nicholas and I went on a week long getaway to sunny California. After visiting sister Monika and Ben for a few days, we packed up our rented Fiat and drove north towards Monterey, CA. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been on my to-do list for quite some time, and let me tell you, it didn't disappoint. Go ahead and gawk at some of the jellyfish and sea horses we saw. They were breathtaking!

Insta-sista

Last weekend we went to Pismo Beach to have some fun in the sun with the Gillespies (and Ottos)

Under the Sea. Up in the Air.

Okay, so Christine is a Master Felter, and being a sister, I get to benefit from her skills on birthdays and Christmas. She has made me a manta ray, colossal squid, and sperm whale; I decided to combine these marine-themed felted wonders and create a maritime mobile to brighten up my mornings.

I used an old embroidery hoop and wrapped fabric to create the mobile and made a couple additional sea accoutrements to round it out.

Pretty thrilled with how it turned out, and if you would like to check out any of the other amazing felted wonders on the blog just click on the word 'felted' in the tag line. There were really too many great ones to put all the links in the post, but I did have to add one special link to a felted Narwhal that Christine made for Catherine last year. This one made it to the post because, you know, it falls in with the theme. Best check it out.

Felted Narwhal

Zoolights!

Nick and I went to Zoolights 10 days ago. We walked around, took pictures, bought (and instantly regretted drinking) hot chocolate, and looked at sharks.  The aquarium isn't as impressive as it was when I was under 4 feet tall. Now that I'm "freakishly tall" all the tanks look less massive. I guess you could also account this to when I'm 25 I realize that we're at a zoo and the aquarium isn't the real ocean. I'm sure I thought this when I was like 5.

Now I'm knitting a jellyfish. This will be transformed into a cat toy.