Labor Day

We mostly had a pretty good Labor Day weekend.
I should start with Friday after work, we loaded up and drove up a canyon to pick wild Blackberries with our friends.  We were not very successful, we were unprepared in dress and kid to adult ratio!  We had fun though and went out for frozen yogurt after.
Saturday we headed to San Diego to visit the Birch Aquarium, for FREE!!  On the first weekend of every month a bunch of museums and zoos are free to Bank of America card holders.  We've never taken advantage of this, but I think we will more in the future.http://museums.bankofamerica.com/  This is the link if you're interested, there are places to go all over the US.  We were planning on going to the beach too, but Dustin had to go to work, NOT on our list of things to do that day.   We had lunch at Islands, never been there before, then headed back.

 Damen, doing lots of posing at the aquarium.

 I really wanted a picture of the fish in this one, they're called Dragon Fish, we've never seen them before and they are so COOL!  They look exactly like what a Dragon fish should look like, and there's Damen making crazy eyes for the camera too.

 Below is our view during lunch, so nice!

Monday Dustin wanted to go back to the Blackberry picking place, this time better prepared.  We called some more friends and headed up there first thing.  It was VERY successful!  We picked for about two hours, in the rain and humidity.  Damen enjoyed playing in the stream that passed through the little ravine we were in and Dustin enjoyed the challenge of getting the berries that were just out of reach.  We came home, rested and relaxed for the rest of the day.  All in all, it was a pretty good three day weekend with lots of memories!!    

 Our friend Tammy, up on the hill, and this is a pretty decent shot of what the ravine we were in looked like.

Below Damen's holding about half of our picking!

 Dustin with our friend Kerri, he bushwacked his way in, to get to the BEST berries!