Well I haven’t been online all week so this will be a long post!
We’ve had a great time here in South Carolina with my Aunt Shania and Uncle Chris…on Friday we recuperated and played with the kids. I’m not very fun to play with right now (being pregnant I can’t even play on the trampoline!) so they spent most of their time playing with Brandon. Brandon is apparently good at being a little kid because they loved playing with him! He’ll be a good Daddy. :)
On Saturday we were hanging out when Jarod decided he wanted to take us to the lake. So we all went (minus Uncle Chris because he was at work) and followed him through the woods. Little did we know that he was taking us on a 2 hour long hike up and down hills and through dry river beds! Once we got to the beach we found mica, quartz and fools gold everywhere! The whole beach was glittering with it! It was beautiful.
On Sunday we went to church at Newspring (Aunt Shania and Uncle Chris’ church) and it was awesome! Brandon says it was “fantabulous”. The guy who preached looked like a cross between Jesus (his hair) and Orlando Bloom (everything else ;)). He talked about how the regular Pastor, Perry, had called out one of his friends for showing butt crack…and how we often show spiritual butt crack by not obeying God’s Word. The sermon was preached from 1 Samuel and the basic idea for it was “If you’re not obeying God, he doesn’t care what else you do for him.”
Also on Sunday we went down to the lake (we drove this time!) and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for lunch. The fire was really hot and smoky so it was hard to cook them good but we managed! I cooked mine until there was juice coming out of it! The wood that was in the fire was pine, a far cry from our usual mesquite! It didn’t smell as good either. J We were supposed to make ‘smores but we forgot the graham crackers and chocolate! So when we got home we made ‘smores in the microwave. They were delicious.
On Monday we had a grown up day. Aunt Shania, Uncle Chris, Brandon and I went to a nice Italian restaurant for lunch. Then we went to go see the new Indiana Jones movie. It was really good, but I’m afraid my favorite is still The Last Crusade! After that we went to a really good ice cream place. Brandon got some chocolate-coffee-caramel thing and I got a banana split. It was really good!
It would be difficult to choose a favorite day for this week long adventure…but if I had to I think I would pick Tuesday.
We went to the aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia! It is the largest aquarium in the world! (For those of you who don’t know, I am terrified of water. Especially when said water contains anything living, especially sharks and whales!)
When we got there we went to the “Tropical Diver” area, in this area there were big tanks full of cool looking, very colorful fish and some baby Blacktip sharks.
Then we went to the “Ocean Voyager” area. We started walking through the little hallway thing and before I knew it we were in this underwater tube! There was water all around us, and when I looked up I saw a Whale Shark swimming above us! This is where I had a conniption (conniption means “fit” if you’re retarded like Brandon); Whale Sharks can get up to 40-60 ft. long and they’re just freaking huge. I decided to rename them B.A.F. (Big Arse Fish). Once we got out of the tunnel, it was ok and I actually enjoyed looking at them. There’s this area called the theatre where it was just a big wall of glass so we could watch the whale sharks and other huge fish. There were these really ugly rock-looking fish that would just swim in place and look at you the whole time you stood there!
After that we went to the “Coldwater Quest”. There we watched the sea otters, sea lions, penguins and of course the beluga whale. The whales were my favorite this time because this one kept blowing bubbles and chasing them! He was super cute, almost like he was showing off!
We also went to the “River Scout” which had a bunch of big dirty fish and stuff. It was pretty cool though!
We also saw: Sea horses, sea dragons, electric eels, jelly fish, octopus and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. We got to pet some of them too!
We petted: Star fish, crabs, shrimp, sting rays and baby sharks! Sting rays feel like algae, it was kinda gross! They acted like they wanted to be petted though! They kept swimming up to us and getting really close to the top of the water. The sharks were kind of slimy but also grainy feeling.
Before we left we went to the gift shop and found some cool stuff. I got a stuffed baby penguin because he is so cute! Brandon got a necklace, we got our very first out-of-state refrigerator magnet and of course a couple post cards for the parents.
We forgot our camera on this trip but we plan to go back after Shrimpy is born!
On Wednesday we were just being lazy and getting ready for the trip to Maryland. We also went back down to the lake though to collect some of the pretty rocks and such that we found down there. We did laundry and got the car ready for another trip, a shorter one though. :)
This morning (Thursday) we left for Petersburg, Virginia.
We’ll be blogging more frequently soon!
P.S. I’m 15 weeks pregnant today!
