Our Thanksgiving

Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Cindi and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving at home just the two of us. It wasn't our first Thanksgiving alone but it was the first Thanksgiving we had our own special dinner. Our first Thanksgiving alone was in 2003 but I spent the day sick and all the wonderful food we purchased was never prepared. But we definitely made up for it this year!

The best part of our Thanksgiving was the surprise day Cindi took me on the day after Thanksgiving to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The picture above is of an old fish skeleton and probably one of my favorite pictures from our day. We arrived in Monterey and had mexican food for lunch. The food wasn't all that great but the super giant margaritas we had made up for it.

Me and my raspberry margarita

Cindi and her fancy melon margarita

After we finished lunch and our drinks we walked over to the aquarium and waited in line to buy our tickets. There was a couple in front of us and he had a coupon for $5 off each ticket for up to four tickets so he offered to share it with us. We finally made it into the building and it was packed! I wasn't prepared to be around so many people and so many children. It was *very* fun but after a few hours it was a bit too much. They had a couple great white sharks on display but they were much smaller than I was expecting and our memory card was full so we didn't manage to get any pictures of the sharks. We did get some amazing photos of the jelly fish and some very cool tiger sharks.

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