Enter, the rain. (Post holiday adventure today, we’ll blog backwards another day!)

This year, we have been to aquariums touching the Pacific Ocean (Seattle here and Monterey, CA) and Atlantic Ocean (Norwalk, CT), and international waters in Vancouver, BC (also, the Pacific Ocean)!

We’ve never been to an aquarium in the dark!

New experience! We learned about manta rays via virtual reality with moving seats!

Gear bike for the win! Meryl made it halfway up to the pizzeria for dinner! Two free-riders and an extra bike for the rest of the way up:)

A lawn nap to power up.

Cotton candy! The Noonan’s birthday gift to Meryl came in all too handy, and we learned from Kyra, the official Cotton Candy Master.

Eye gels for all! Gotta look fresh for the picture sesh!

Hot dog night! New York, Chicago, and San Francisco dogs and a root beer tasting for root beer floats.

Butter and mayonnaise; ingredient leaders, flavor feeders.

Pickle ball and a selfie crawl (for me!).

We tried out a new Filipino restaurant in town tonight (behind us) and forgot to commemorate the moment until getting into the car afterwards. Happy Birthday, Lola!