Oregon Day 6

Happy Birthday to Aaron! It's hard to celebrate a birthday on vacation because it's not like I could make him his favorite food or really do anything like that, but I hope he still felt special today and knows how much me and the boys love him. I'm so grateful for what a wonderful husband and father he is and how much he blesses our lives! I'm a lucky girl.

We headed to Newport Aquarium in the morning. The boys got to see sea lions up close there and thought they were really cool. We got there just in time for their feeding which was a lot of fun to watch.
They have some neat aquariums where you basically walk through a tube that they have cut out of the aquarium. On the ground they have part of it covered by carpet, but you can also walk on the glass which totally freaked out Zack. It was really funny to watch him walk trying to not step on the glass at all.
An egg yolk jelly fish
After some coaxing they thought it was cool to stand up in an aquarium
Then we had some lunch and headed to the ocean for our sea life cruise. It's a 2 hour day cruise along the coast. They told us they had seen whales everyday for the last month so we were pretty excited.
The harbor that we left out of to go to the ocean.

There are these different buoys in the ocean and there were sea lions all over them.
We saw porpoises, sea lions, sea birds, and jelly fish, but no whales. We were bummed by that, but it was so cool that we got over it. This was one of our favorite thing of the trip.
I know the lighting in this picture is bad, but that's what you get when others are taking the pictures for you.
The crabs we caught. At the beginning of the ride we put two crabs pots in the water (Aaron and Zack got to help) and this is what we pulled up at the end. The boys thought it was so cool!
These sea lions live in the harbor basically year round with the exception of 2 months a year when they go to mate. These are all males.
By this point in the trip Austin and Zack would just randomly start making sea lion noises, it was so cute. After our cruise we went to dinner at Mo's. (Blake and Kristin- the Mo's in Newport is much better than the one in Florence.)
Enjoying daddy's birthday brownie and ice cream
Then we went back to the hotel and went swimming. That is one thing that's bad about being out numbered is that we miss out on picture opportunities. Happy birthday honey! Love you!