As Molly has mentioned a few times, I’ve been working quite a bit lately.  However, my busy time of the year has officially ended and we jumped at the opportunity to head to San Diego for Molly’s cousins wedding.  (Thanks Brad and Emma for getting married in a cool place).  We were a little worried about how the drive would go because of this guy, but a little bit of Signing Time, Sesame Street and Molly’s soothing vocals, he made the 6 hour trip with no problems at all.

The wedding was fantastic, the San Diego temple is amazing.  So amazing that I didn’t even take one picture of it.  I took my tripod and everything to get some sweet pictures and ended up with nothing.  We did take a lot of other pictures though.

We went to Sea World and it was a very proud moment for me as Griff finally learned to keep his sweet Cubs hat I bought him on his head.

He loved his Cubs hat so much that he decided it was a good idea to try and feed it to the sea lions.  I’m assuming he saw the giant pool of water and threw the his hat in the same way you throw coins into a fountain and wished that Cubs would win a World Series.  He’s so thoughtful, thanks Griff.  I promise my first thoughts after seeing him was concern for the animals (not the hat), that they wouldn’t eat and choke on it.  Molly doesn’t believe me for some reason.  Luckily they were able to retrieve the hat and after washing it a few times is as good as new.

Although, Griff may have been angry at fish in general from an incident that happened shortly before the hat toss.  When I reached him down so he could pet a Dolphin, the dolphin let out a very loud and odd sounding noise from his blow hole.  Griff didn’t like this so much and didn’t want anything to do with it after that.    (Yes, the picture below was taken at the exact moment this unfortunate event happened)

We also went to the USS Midway, a decommissioned Aircraft Carrier that is now a museum.  I’ve done this before but I am more amazed each time I see this thing.  Whoever figured how to build something this large and make it float has to be one of the smartest men ever.  When these things are deployed, they have over 200 cooks on the ship.  200!  That’s nuts.

Griffin loved this one because he could climb into the cockpits of the planes and push buttons and he saw some helicopters, which are his favorite, you can see him signing helicopter in the bottom right.

Thanks for the fun San Diego!  We may have to come visit again soon.  Griff will want to show Walker how to make sea lions happy.