Thank You--Grandma and Grandpa!!

My parents have been amazing in helping us lately. We couldn't have run the marathon without them. Almost every Saturday for the last 2 months they have come over to sit with the girls so we could go on our long training runs, those runs were often over 3 hours long. Then while we were in St George running they took care of the girls. We had to say thank you for all of their service.

We took them to one of our favorite Saturday morning treats. We love going to the Gaffey Street Diner in San Pedro, CA.It is a restaurant we discovered while watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network. It is a great place where the portions are amazingly HUGE!! Jose gets the country breakfast, which is a biscuits and gravy, sausage, eggs and home fries. I get the breakfast burrito and the girls get pumpkin pancakes. I only eat half of the burrito so I can enjoy the pancakes because they really are the reason I go. We have gone in the past and they didn't have pumpkin pancakes they had banana, it was very sad. I figured it is October, the season of everything pumpkin, they would surely have pumpkin pancakes now...no such luck. Oh well. I just made them Sunday morning instead.
One of the best parts of going out there is we always stop by the Cabrillo Beach Aquarium. They have a fantastic touch tank. Izzy really wasn't sure she wanted to touch anything but she loved looking.
They have sea stars, sea urchins, sea anemone, and abalone in the touch tank. Inside the aquarium they have fish and other animals that are native to the water off our shores. They even have a 37 pound lobster. He is huge.
Cherish loves to touch the anemone because they stick to your fingers. I love the urchins because they hug your finger.
Izzy thought hard about touching the sea creatures but she never did touch anything.
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa loves fish so we knew he would love it here.
Izzy put on her shark face. She is a funny little girl. She is always making me laugh.
They have an area where the kids can dress up and pretend that they are sea creatures and there is a camera so they can see themselves on TV. They also have a nursery so you can see baby creatures. It is a great place and admission is by donation. Recommended donation is $5 for adults and $1 for kids. You can't beat that.