Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Christopher Columbus' Nina

(I thought I would try a little photo collage - I think if you click on it, it will get bigger. I don't know what I am doing so let me know if you like it.)

In November 2008 Brett took us to Morro Bay to see a replica of Christopher Columbus' Nina. It was built in the same manner (has no nails and uses the tar pitch and stuff) as the original. They said it was the smallest of the 3 ships (can you name the other two?) and it was Columbus' favorite. I personally found it very small and cannot imagine crossing the ocean on it! What true pioneers these historical people were!

The rock in the background is Morro Rock. Cameron & Carolyn loved climbing around on the ship. They were very curious about the people down below. (Some of the crew was down below and once in a while you could see or hear them.)

As we were leaving we saw a bunch of crabs and starfish in the ocean right by the "no fishing" sign. We like to see the crabs in the water because we have a joke in the family. When someone starts crabbing - we ask them if they want to go to the ocean and join all the other crabs!

*Also, notice in the pictures who seems to be "climbing up" on everything? For the first time he put a little chair by my island and climbed up yesterday. Carolyn would never have done it on her own, but of course seeing her brother... just that Cam has the upper body strength and Car doesn't. It is probably good exercise and all... but I am still not allowing it! I did look into gymnastics classes though!

1 comment:

Alyssa said...

Your layout looks good!