Summer Vacation ~ Day 5 ~ Sea World

The new exhibit opened at Sea World, Turtle Reef. Only did a little Sea World today, it got really cold.

Summer Vacation ~ Day 5 Spanish Landing & Batizado

We has been looking forward to the Batizado for some time now. In Capoeira, it is a "baptism" that happens once a year or so, where new capoeirestras get their nicknames and belts and those with belts, move up and so on. Shea earned the nickname "Fugeira", which means "bonfire"! Very fitting :)

Then, they fight the maestro!

and Clea found her brother's doppleganger @ Capoeira.

We also went down to the San Salvado, however, to my dismay, they put a damn fence around it and are charging admission. ;(

Summer Vacation ~ Day 3 Santa Cruz Beach

Mikee found a nail in my tire, so our trip back to La Jolla was out, and a trip to Santa Cruz beach was in. The plan is to set up the beach, run the car to the tire shop, and head back to the beach while it was getting repaired. Gotta appreciate your local tire guy a few blocks from the beach, eh?

Santa Cruz beach is hit or miss for me, full of street kids or not. We only had one today, and he would walk from his spot, to the water trying to entice beach-goers to jump off the rocks with him, no one would take him up on it, so he would proceed to climb out to the rocks, and entertain the crowd with back flips and crazy jumps off the rocks. All which freaked me out, cuz I am a sissy.

There were also, crazy ladies jumping off the high rocks, into what appeared to me, only a few feet of water, again.. me ~> sissy!

The girls enjoyed for a while, both got nailed by a few waves. While we were enjoying our awesome new umbrella, a Man-o-war or Portuguese jellyfish washed up. We jumped up to go see it, it was dead and flipped upside down, we could see all the tentacles. ACK!

We picked up Stephen King's "It" and The Motorcycle Diaries from the library, hit the grocery store for ingredients for Clea's AWESOME homemade lasagne and headed home.

Later, I took the girls to the Y, Clea did her first belly dancing class, Shea went swimming and I hit the gym for an hour. Shea is lucky, seems whenever she is at the pool, her buddies show up! I was stoked that Clea liked her class, and said she would do it again! We have a Greek restaurant with belly dancers that I should take her too:)

We ate our lasagne, watched it and called it a successful day 3!

Summer Vacation ~ Day 4 Queen Bees

Friday, we drove out to North Park and went to Queen Bees Cultural Center. We met the artist whom was having the show that evening, and he gave us a tour of all kinds of work. He even gave Clea a book to borrow for the weekend!

Summer Vacation ~ Day Two La Jolla

You know you're lucky when you find parking in La Jolla near the cove. We were able to stroll by the Children's pool, the cove, had lunch at the Goldfish cafe and cruiser around downtown.

Summer Vacation ~ Day Two UCSD

Today was the hunt for the singing tree and the Bear at UCSD, or as I call it, a tour of a major university!