and another adventure

After spending the morning on the bay we went to Cabrillo National Monument to check out the bay from a totally different perspective. This is another absolutely picteresque place with TONS to see...and about a million more places for the kids to fall to an early death. I was constantly yelling at the kids to stay away from the edge, and not to take one more step and to stay right where they were. I was definately more comfortable when they were sitting down. They were all sitting watching the ocean so I went over to take a picture and as I pulled my camera around it flipped one of my rings off my finger...

I was standing right near the edge of a cliff and I was sure it was gone, lost forever...but as I looked over the edge I saw it...it had landed on one of the ledges in the rock. After debating ways to get it, all while trying to keep the kids from falling into the ocean wanting to see it, Owen decided to scale the rocks to retrieve it becase he "sure as heck wasn't going back to Italy to get me another one"

As Owen climbed down, I am freaking out a little, okay maybe a lot...picturing him falling into the ocean...and me raising 4 kids all by myself. Taryn was off crying somewhere refusing to look, and Drake was trying to follow Owen, couldn't get enough of the excitement. But, just as Owen promised, he got my ring and climbed back up to us in safety...I guess I don't get to go back to Italy...

After that little adventure we had fun with all the tidepools finding all kinds of fun things. Taryn's favorite, a crab she claimed as her own that was playing peek-a-boo.

Isn't she the cutest...

It was another amazing Southern California place...that I didn't get to spend enough time at...