Aquarium Fun!

I'm listening to Sinatra right now.... mostly because you can only listen to Pandora for free for only 40 hours a month. And when you spend as much time at home as I do... that is easy to use up! So thank goodness Michael has a bunch of old Sinatra music on his iTunes.

Anyways, Michael and I recently visited the aquarium and I thought I'd share the pictures. It was a good time, I'm glad we ended up going. :)

There were lots of turtles at this aquarium! Amanda would have loved it! This was one of the weird looking ones. It had a pointy nose!

These ones were cute though...

They had an open tank that you could just stick your hand in if you were a brave rule breaker! Evidently they bite.

Then there was these little guys. I dreamt last night that one was attacking me... ha.

Don't worry, Michael still has his right hand. Not that we would feel bad for him if he didn't. He clearly was offering it up to the croc.

The snapping turtle was really cool. Very mean looking....


Okay, so this isn't a very good picture. We didn't have a chance to take any good ones because we were petting sting rays! It was really cool! They loved it. The would come right up to your hand and sometimes they would stick their heads out of the water. The lady that worked there said that they'll splash you if you ignore them. They were adorable!

These turtles were having a conversations or something.

There was a big ol' tank of these guys:

Here's a scary big crab....

When we were leaving we met a little salamander on the way to the parking lot.

He was cute and friendly!

Fort Macon State Park

Michael and I headed a bit North for a Saturday trip to Fort Macon. It was really neat learning about the old Civil War fort and exploring the area. We had a lot of fun!


This cannon weighed somewhere around 8900 lbs!

While we were there a group of men dressed in period clothing shot the cannon off for us. LOUD!

The rooms down these steps were really dark and scary.

The fort used to have a moat surrounding it, but now it is just a grassy area.

This was such a great day trip! We finished up the day by going to dinner at a Japanese restaurant with our friend Nick. He was nice and shared his sushi with us, which was surprisingly good! They cooked our meal right in front of us, which was a new experience for me. Our chef was very entertaining. :)

After dinner we went to see The Other Guys. It was really funny!

What a Wednesday!

Oh thank goodness for the internet repairman because I have my internet back!!! Yay! Our gardener cut the internet line. Then he tied the two loose ends in a knot and gave himself a pat on the back for being so clever. Okay so I'm not sure if he patted himself on the back, but I'm hoping that the gardener just sticks to gardening from now on. Talking about tying knots...

Yesterday, after dinner, we hopped in the car and drove to the courthouse to visit the magistrate's office because our friends, David and Tiffany, got married!


Here's the happy couple:

I don't think I was very good at video taping; they didn't let me do it too long:

It was a sweet little ceremony.

Poor Tiffany had to put up with all these hooligans:

And we all learned that shaving cream melts right off of car windows when it is 100 degrees outside (slight exaggeration). Good job guys!

We finished up right before midnight, it started a little later than planned because of a train that was way behind schedule. We're all going out to dinner tonight to celebrate! Michael and I wish the best of luck to the married couple. They're about to start an extremely long distance relationship because David is headed to Japan.

"What type of face was that?!"

I probably enjoy these photos more than anyone else will, but I thought I'd share them nonetheless.

We're about to sit down and take serious photos for our engagement shoot and Michael picks up some leaves to wear as a head dress of some sort. I promptly threw it....

Michael inching threateningly close to the gator water. I tried to keep my cool....

Michael is a dancing MACHINE....

and this sometimes frightens me.... (Heather seems to think it is quite amusing though.)

Michael had a lot of fun in the dressing room while my mom bustled my dress...

Family photo.... and derek. I love my grandma's face in this one. Heather happened to walk out of the restroom and EVERYONE was staring at her. So naturally, she did a little dance and we got some of the best photos of the group.

The photographer kept on saying things like, "What type of face was that?!" to Michael. And then we couldn't help but laugh for the next few photos.

After doing a billion photos of my head on Michael's chest, he thought it was his turn...

Meagan.... being goofy for me.

Um....

Katy falling down the hill....

The boys....

:)

Flowers!

Michael got home from work early today and surprised me with flowers! Isn't he the sweetest? I love my husband so much. He asked the flourist for "purple flowers". Ha. I love them.

When he got home, he hid them on the steps to our backdoor. He was like, "I'm not sure if I watered Roma this morning, can you check on her?" I was *a little* reluctant, but I eventually opened the backdoor and found them. Aw!