Nerd Day

I feel it is important to have a nerd day every once in awhile. This past weekend was perfect for our nerd day. Amber, Leah and Des joined Jourdan and I on our nerd adventure. We went to the Natural History Museum to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. Than off to the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center to see the IMAX, Dinosaurs Alive! and than finally to La Jolla to see Bodies...The Exhibition. I do not have many pictures because we were not allowed to take any in the exhibits.

Natural History Museum

The Dead Sea Scrolls were fascinating. The photography was amazing, I wish I could have taken pictures. While going through the exhibit to see the scrolls Jourdan decided to scream his little head off. I had to take him out and wait for my friends to finish. Than I was able to go back in on my own, while they graciously watched him. The good old parent switch-a-roo. I am getting used to doing this at basically everything interesting that I want to see.

We watched Dinosaurs Alive! in the IMAX. Jourdan loved it. He actually started laughing when two dinosaurs started attacking each other! The T-Rex did scare him when he roared though. Leah and I decided that we need to start seeing IMAX movies more often.

We had lunch at Mo's. Pretty much the only pictures I have from the whole day.

Bodies...The Exhibition was...I do not know, crazy, interesting, amazing, gross...so many words. You walk through and see bodies, REAL bodies, injected with something (I don't remember all the technical stuff) and it hardens the blood vessels, muscles, tendons, nerves..everything. There were bones and brains and blah. I know now that I can NEVER be a doctor. It gives me chills! It was so cool, yes cool...the best word I can think of. There were baby fetuses. So small. You can see babies from the time they were embryos through their development. We found out that the bodies were from China. They were unclaimed and than donated to science. Even the babies, they were either from miscarriages or because the mother and baby died. It's so sad. The bodies were real, I think that is what got to me the most.

What can I say? It was a great nerd day!

Gay Pride

This past weekend Des, Jourdan and I went to the Gay Pride Parade. There were lots of people there supporting the community. The hair salon that I work at, Hairspray, had a float in the parade so I went to show my support. I was not in the parade because I thought it would be too difficult with Jourdan. Hairspray's float looked great! We loved watching all the different floats everyone had. Hairspray won 1st price in the parade! They had the best float!

Unfortunately there were protesters at the parade. Do people not have anything better to do? This made me sick to my stomach. Let people live their lives as they want. People do not have to agree with the lifestyle but should show some respect. Sorry. . .I am done bitching.

There were so many different businesses and organizations in the parade showing their support. The police were even in the parade, along with many others.

Gay Pride Parade

Eaan Update

Eaan is doing really well. He has been to a couple different ports, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippians, and now he is in Singapore. Here are some pictures he sent me. He was able to go on an elephant ride in Thailand, I believe.



He can't wait to come home though. He is missing everyone like crazy. Eaan has been working a lot. He has been flying all the time. All the e-mails I get from him usually include something like, I have to fly 14+ hours tomorrow...I am glad I am not doing that.

Some good news though, he might be coming home early. Possibly as early as September 15th. So we will see. You can never get too excited. Everything can always change. Jourdan and I can not wait for him to come home.

Here are some pictures from on the boat. He is hanging out with his pilots.
Boys and their guns.



I am not really sure about this one.

Maryland

Being back in Maryland was a lot of fun. Chris was home for a visit from Germany. I got to see all my old friends. I miss being home. Jourdan had a lot of fun. He loved Otis. For the 4th of July we went to see Tommy at Cove Point Pool. Jourdan loved going in the water even though it was freezing! Afterwards we met up with everyone and went tubing than watched the fireworks from the boat out in the bay. I can not wait to go back!

British Virgin Islands

Ok I know that I have been slacking on the posting. I have been very busy and I finally got all of the pictures from the British Virgin Islands in order and ready to post. Jourdan and I had a lot of fun on our vacation. As predicted there were many pictures taken....I think the last count was 2,645 or something like that. Do not worry I am not posting all of them. But I am putting up a lot of pictures.
I was worried about the plane ride but it turned out ok. By the last connection flight I was ready to be sailing, not in a small airplane seat. We only had the 45 minute flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Tortola left. Sounds easy, right? After waiting for about 1/2 an hour on the little plane, the engines still had not been started. The pilot comes on to the speaker system and says, "Sorry about the wait, I know it's hot, (it is about a 100 degrees on the plane and everyone was sweating like crazy) but everyone should be happy because you are all about to go on vacation." Everyone on the plane kinda laughed and I yelled out, "Travel 10 hours with a 10 month old and tell me how happy you would be."

We finally arrived and waited an hour to go through customs, and than took a nerve racking van ride to the Moorings (there are hardly traffic lights, the roads are ALMOST two cars wide and the bigger car basically has the right away...and I thought San Diego drivers were bad). When we met up with everyone we immediately jumped into the pool.

The rest of our trip was a lot of fun. Jourdan thought it would be great to wake up at about 6 am every morning with the sun. Yeah for me. He did very well on the boat. He was a little shaky at first, but soon got the hang of standing on the rocking boat. The boat was awesome, since there is no air conditioning, air flow is crucial. The catamaran was nice and breezy. It was still really hot there. On the nights when it was too hot in the boat we would sleep up on the net.

It was so beautiful in the British Virgin Islands. We were able to sail, snorkel, scuba dive, swim and just relax. We went from island to island, playing on the beach, looking through the little shops and having dinner. There are so many stories to tell, I can't possibly tell them all. There was the lost camera, the rouge wave through our bedroom hatch (and yes we were in the bedroom at the time), Tommy's dislocated finger, Jourdan peeing on Grandmom, Jourdan peeing on the deck of the boat, Anna hurting herself at almost every island, Jourdan passing out wherever and whenever, rough seas, Anna dropping Jourdan and I am sure I am forgetting things.

There was a interesting Phone Booth at Marina Cay. All you have to do is stand there and every 15 seconds the camera takes a picture. You can go to the Pusser's website and see our pictures. Look up June 28th @ 2:50 pm and than search the archive. There will be a bunch of pictures of us. Just something cool, proves that we were there. lol. Anyway the slide show shows some of the highlights from our vacation. There are more posts down below too.

Enjoy!

Sleepy Baby

Jourdan managed to fall asleep everywhere we went in the British Virgin Islands. Tommy was his favorite pillow. He was too cute. I guess we were tiring him out.

Diving and Snorkeling in the BVI

I was able to go diving when we were in the British Virgin Islands. I was very nervous. I had not been diving in 2 years. As soon as I started to descend and saw everything I was fine. We were able to dive at The Chimney which is a passage through the rocks underwater. The depth is about 40 feet. We also dove on two shipwrecks. The Rhone and The Ingeness. These were the two that made me nervous. Both were at 80 feet and the surface was choppy so it was hard to stay on the surface. Once I was at the bottom it was beautiful. I saw fish and sea life that I have never seen before. The shipwrecks were amazing too. While diving I was always on the lookout for sharks. But we did not see any. We saw fish, sea turtles, rays, barracuda, coral and seaweed. Anna even tried scuba diving!

Snorkeling was amazing too. Everyone was able to snorkel, including Jourdan. Well he just floated on the surface in his floaty while we snorkeled but he had tons of fun watching us and being in the water.

New posts on the way!

Sorry I have not updated in awhile but I have lots to tell. Pictures from Eaan and pictures from our trip to the BVIs. I will be posting soon. I promise!

Vacation!

It is about 5 hours before we are going to leave for the airport! I can't wait! British Virgin Islands here we come! There will be plenty of pictures when we get back in the beginning of July and expect to see a bunch. I am excited and nervous about the plane ride. 10 hours with Jourdan & I in one seat does not sound like a good time to me. Should be fun!

Vacation Time!

Torrey Pines

Leah, Jourdan & I have been going on hikes in Torrey Pines for the past couple weeks. Eaan & I would always go before he left for deployment, now I have a new buddy until he comes home.

We had some strudel in the morning so we decided to take an extra long hike. We walked all the trails...about 4 miles or so. We even had some music for our hike. There was a man playing bagpipes. Nice music to walk to. It was a beautiful day. It was awesome and we were beat by the end of the day. Jourdan on the other hand was relaxed and ready to play. I mean he got to ride around in a backpack all day long. He slept and looked at all the scenery. And Jourdan only peed on Leah once! (Last time he peed on her twice)

Jourdan & I have been hiking and running 2 miles a day to get in shape. Well Jourdan has just been enjoying the ride. Finally, I lost all my baby weight, just in time for the British Virgin Islands! We will be leaving on Saturday morning and I guarantee that there will be plenty of pictures when we get back. Last time my mom and I took almost 3,000 pictures between the two of us, yes you read right, 3,000. So when I get to Maryland I will be posting lots of pictures from our vacation. I can not wait until we leave! Only 4 1/2 more days until a much needed vacation!

Baby's First Haircut

Last week Jourdan got his first haircut.

I know you are saying, "How much hair can he have to cut?". Well he does not have that much. We, meaning Chelsea my old roommate, just trimmed around his ears and along the bottom. His hair was growing over his ears! He did well and Chelsea did not cut his ear off...that is a plus! The look on his face was priceless. He did very well. Than of course we styled his hair in a mohawk...my favorite baby do.

Wild Animal Park & Grunions

This past weekend we went to the Wild Animal Park here in San Diego with some friends.

It was a whole lot of fun. I liked it better than the Zoo because the animals have so much room to run around and play. We were able to pet some of the animals and than feed the birds.

We saw a huge Lion. I do not know how thick the glass was between me & the massive beast but I let myself believe that I was safe and he could not get through. Although I would just have to run faster than the slowest person and I would be ok...

We saw tortoises and gorillas. We also saw cheetahs, giraffes, rhinos and elephants. There was a baby elephant that was so adorable. I am so glad I have wonderful friends out here that help keep me busy while Eaan is gone. They love Jourdan and help me out tremendously. I could never thank them enough.

What better way to spend a beautiful day?

Our day was not over yet. We still had another Grunion run later that night!

The Grunions came out for us under the full moon! We were so excited! Jourdan slept through the whole thing but it was still a lot of fun. We were not allowed on the Navy beach because the Navy Seals were training. That was ok because we could still watch them from afar while we caught Grunions...

What a great wrap to our day.

Mo-Hawk

Enough said...my kid is going to be the cool kid in school.

106 degrees

I know, I know it's been awhile since I have put a post up. We had a great time in Phoenix. It was about 106 degrees...pretty cool. We hung out with family and relaxed. It felt great. The only thing I do not like is actually having to drive to and from Phoenix. The drive starts out great, first you hit the mountains in San Diego county...
this is the first 1 1/2 of the drive...




and than...









nothing...



for the last 4 1/2 hours.

So after becoming incredibly bored I am forced to find entertainment. This involves taking pictures of myself. I know, scary.

Jourdan just slept and hung out in his car seat.

But after we arrived we had a blast. Jourdan loved playing in the kiddie pool, at first it was traumatic but once he got used to the water he was fine.