Ewww...Gross...

We hit a bug with our windshield on our way to California. This was no ordinary bug...in fact, it might have been the largest splattering of bug guts I've ever seen from one bug. It looked like someone egged our window.


It's almost the size of Wil's Costco card. EWW! Gross!!!

Dancing with Dolphins

Before the dolphin show started, the dolphin show guy came out and asked for two adult volunteers to be in the show and meet the dolphins. ME, ME, PICK ME!!!

He picked me! He told the other volunteer and me that we had to do karaoke, dance and get wet in exchange for our chance to meet the dolphin. That doesn't sound too bad, I thought - I couldn't wait to meet a dolphin!

First, I sang Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts, and then the dolphins sang. Next, I danced in circles, forward and back while the dolphins danced in circles, forward and back. Then, I shook my bum and the dolphin shook his bum...see...


Then it was time to get wet, and by wet, I mean WET! The trainer told me to brace myself because there would be a lot of water coming at me. The other volunteer got wet first, but it didn't look too bad. I can handle that, I thought. Then, the dolphins spit at me - how cool, kind of, that I got spit at by a dolphin! How funny, I thought. They're going to get the guy volunteer all wet and then just barely get the girl wet. That's great! Yeah, not so much!

After spitting on me, the dolphins did this...


TWICE!

That's a LOT of water! My whole self was wet! Finally, after being drenched, I got to meet the dolphins and pet their tails.


Look at the unnatural shine of my jeans - that's definitely all water. About 30 minute after the dolphin show, we sat down and Wil rung out my socks for me. Look at all the water from just my socks!


I wished he could have rung out my pants, but that might have been a bit awkward for the people walking by. After several hours, I finally changed out of my tank top and long sleeved shirt (neither of which had dried yet) into Wil's light jacket. It was not the most fashionable look, but at least it was a bit more dry! I was still wet when we got back to the hotel five hours later...but, it was TOTALLY worth it!

Discovery Kingdom

Six Flags has a park in Vallejo near San Francisco called Discovery Kingdom. It's one of the coolest places ever!!! It was the zoo meets Sea World meets Six Flags and I LOVED it! Look at this cute little guy - he's the baby dolphin. They had a viewing pane so you could see the dolphins swimming around under water and he was so cute!


The elephant show was one of my favorite parts of the day! Look how close we were and I didn't even use the zoom on the camera!!!


I didn't realize their trunks stretched quite so far!


Her name was Tava, and she even did tricks for us! How cool is this elephant?!?


At the end, they even let us pet the elephant!!! Have you ever pet an elephant? It was the COOLEST!!! Although, our hands smelled like butt after we pet her...Eww, GROSS!



In addition to the elephant show, they had a sea lion show, dolphin show, bird show, tiger show and killer whale show.


We missed the Walrus show, but went and saw the Walrus later in the day. He was the COOLEST walrus I have ever met...ok, maybe he's the only Walrus I have ever met, but I never knew walruses were SO COOL (have you noticed yet that cool is the word of the day)!!!

He was super friendly and would swim up to the glass to look at you. He kept making this happy clacking sound (I assume it was a happy sound) with his mouth and he even had taught himself how to clap. If you stood in front of the glass and clapped while he looked at you, he would start clapping his front to flippers together. It was SO cute!


I look like a total dork in this picture, but it's a cool picture of the walrus, so I'm posting it anyway. In fact, it almost looks like we're making the same face! :)

ROAD TRIP!!!

Three days + 1,600 miles = ROAD TRIP!!!

Wil and I went on a road trip to Six Flags this weekend. HOORAY! It is one of the best things we have done in a very long time! There is absolutely NO ONE at Six Flags in March...we were both pleasantly surprised. The picture above is of us "waiting in line." I think the longest line we waited in all weekend was two roller coaster cars deep - much better than the two hours from this point signs we breezed past while walking quickly to get on the roller coaster.

We went to two different Six Flags parks. On Saturday, we went to Magic Mountain in L.A. and on Sunday we went to Discovery Kingdom near San Francisco. It was a lot of driving, but totally worth it! We had SO SO SO MUCH FUN!!!

Tweet, tweet, tweet

Our neighborhood has a very loud array of birds. In fact, one of the first things we noticed when we moved in was how much chirping you would hear in the morning - it's actually a great way to wake up after a good night's rest.

But, did you know there are birds that sing in the middle of the night? We have a bird in our neighborhood that sings all night long, well at least until after I fall asleep. Last night, I was awake in my bed well past 11 p.m. listening to the serenade of a bird outside my window. I've heard this singer several times before and Wil and I have had a couple discussions about what kind of a bird sings at night. Apparently, there are several...for instance, the whipporwill, owl, and nightingale (which is actually why it's appropriately named the nightingale).

According to an Arizona web site, a Northern Mockingbird is most likely our new neighbor (No, I have not investigated to see what the bird looks like to make sure this is what it is - I'm scared of birds, remember? I just Googled "Arizona birds that sing at night" and that's what came up). Apparently, the singing is hormonally driven in the Springtime, so it should stop soon - I can't decide if I'm excited for it to stop because it will be easier to fall asleep, or kind of bummed because it really is cool to listen to a bird sing at night.

Sit, Stay, Shake, Lay

We were reading through our goals last night and one of them was to "teach Elvis something." HOORAY! I think it's the first goal we've been able to check off so far this year. Elvis officially knows how to sit, stay, shake and lay. He's known sit for quite a while, but stay, shake and lay are all relatively new. Next on our list is roll over, but we might wait a bit before we start working on that one to make sure all of these new tricks have had time to sink in.

My grandma let us borrow her camera to take movies of Elvis showing off his new tricks, so without further ado...

Elvis laying.

Elvis shaking.

Our dog is a GENIUS!

How Old Are We?

A quick glimpse into my life right now... I'm sitting on the couch, typing on the computer while Wil lays on the floor trying to stick a rolled up napkin up Elvis's nose. For the record, he's giggling like a school girl while he does it...he cracks me up!!!