Memor(ies)

A few photos from Memorial weekend in L.A. with the family.  

We spent Sunday at the aquarium with my cousins and a couple of their babies where we pet squishy sting rays and sand papered sharks, and cooed over little sea-horse babies in brightly colored tanks.   

Colin was surprisingly nimble while holding one of the little babies (I was preparing to be much more amused; I was hoping he'd hold the little boy much like he holds cats).  Seems Mabes has instilled some fatherly instincts in him... 

It's been a weekend of cocktail drinking and vulgar jokes, of sisterly bonding--both human and otherwise--, and of epic gluttony.  Big Momma Mac, I knew I'd finish you one day.

**A special congrats to Colin for withstanding several hours of museum-going this weekend.  Your right brain thanks you.

I see London, I see France

Photo by Krista

Photo by Krista

Photo by Krista

Photo by Krista

Photo by Friendly Stranger

Photo by Krista

Photo by G. Dee

Photo by Krista

Photo by Krista

Photo by G. Dee

Photos from London/Paris... Finally, right?  

My biggest regret was not witnessing firsthand the bedpan that Fleming first cultured penicillin.  I at least saw the building that it was housed in and I'm pretty sure it was just a dumb old bedpan with nothing in it, so it's not hard to imagine what it looked like.  Still, it would've been a good story to come back with.  My geeky science friends would have been pretty jealous, I'm sure.

And my first attempt at creating a .gif (see below)!!  I wish I could enlarge it, but the photos end up looking really grainy.  A valiant effort, if I do so say myself.  :)

I hope everyone had a good, long weekend!  Colin and I took Mabes out on a sea voyage with the new twelve foot inflatable raft that I bought for Colin's birthday.  Mabes looked pretty silly in her pink life vest.  She has yet to figure out how to properly walk in it; she ends up dragging her little drumstick back legs behind her as her front scuttles along.  She was a pretty good skipper though!