My first hike to Ano Nuevo

Since the weather was so nice Thanksgiving weekend, Mama and Dada decided it would be fun to drive up to Ano Nuevo and check out the elephant seals. Dada carried me in the backpack carrier which I thought was lots of fun. I didn't enjoy wearing my hat though, I think I must get that from Mama. We hiked out to the dunes and saw a couple of bull elephant seals, but we were a couple of weeks too early to see the great masses come in. After our hike my brother was jonesing for some lunch so we stopped in Davenport and had burgers (well THEY had burgers, not me...). Maybe next year we can go back up and I will be able to do the hike myself and see more seals!

Happy Halloween

I had my first Halloween. My brother dressed up as a knight so I, of course, was his dragon. We had our friends over for dinner and trick-or-treating, but it was past my bedtime so I missed out on most of it. I thought Ewan's costume was pretty cool and I liked looking at it. I think I will have lots more fun next year when I can actually run around the neighborhood myself and collect my loot.

Sir Ewan the Knight and his little dragon.

This is my very first jack-o-lantern (carved with help from Dada).

Aloha!

"Hanging 10" on the Boogie Board.

Tormenting Ewan on the airplane while he is trying to watch a movie.

My Mama and Dada decided that at 4 1/2 months I was old enough to take my first vacation and airplane ride to the beautiful island of Hawaii. They took my brother on a disastrous R.V. trip when he was 4 months old, so I think I lucked out and got the upgrade! I did very well on the airplane ride over there (helps that it is only 4 to 5 hours long) and I slept most of the way. I did have a meltdown on the short flight from Honolulu to Kona and poor Mama was stuck with me and had to endure the "looks" from the other passengers. Heck I was getting tired and cranky, what's a kid to do?

We stayed at a nice condo right on the water. Ewan had lots of fun running all over the beach and finding things. The 3 hour time difference was weird and Ewan and I kept getting up at 4:00am everyday. That might explain the exhausted looks on Mama and Dada's faces! I had a hard time adapting to the warm weather and humidity. Ugh...I am used to the fog and the cool weather of Pebble Beach. Hopefully I will learn to like it in the future.

We went to the volcano (my big bro was so happy about that!), went to the beach, and we looked at a bunch of condos that Mama and Dada are thinking about buying. We had lots of fun, although I think I will have more fun when I get older and can do more fun things.

Hanging out at 5:00am

Trying to eat Dada's egg roll!