Traveling is an adventure!

I absolutely love to travel. Everytime I have the chance to travel somewhere new I will take the opportunity to be able to experience new and exciting adventures. This past summer my husband and I went to California for a 12 day vacation with 5 days visiting one of my sisters in San Francisco. We began our trip traveling down the coast to Santa Cruz and then on to Monterey where we spent two days. I could not wait to goto the Monterey Bay Aquarium because for one I took a marine biology class my senior year of high school and traveled to the Bahamas for a week studying marine life (and no it was not a luxury vacation). The second reason is in my Microsoft class I have the students create a brochure for one of their Publisher projects and they have the choice to create one for either the Cleveland Zoo or the Monterey Bay Aquarium and now I can say I have been there. This aquarium really focuses on the learning aspect of marine life and giving back to the environment instead of harming it. It is different in the fact that it is built right into the bay and that is where the marine biologists complete a lot of their research. In addition, one of my favorite animals is a stingray and I love the fact that you can pet them. In one of my past vacations on a cruise I actually swam with them in the Cayman Islands and held one - it was really fun, I would have one as a pet it if I could. If you would like to check the aquarium here is the link: http://www.mbayaq.org/

For the rest of our California trip we went on to Carmel, Santa Barbara, the Sequoia Forest and Yosemite the first week and then saw the sites of San Francisco with my sister. One neat adventure was to see Yahoo because that is where her boyfriend works so we went and had lunch with him and that was neat since I am a computer person. All in all we had a wonderful vacation.