July was full of more outdoor fun and lots of abalone adventures. Kristin went down to long beach to try to spawn some abalone in early July. While she was there, she got some awesome gifts related to her NOAA Species in the Spotlight Hero Award, including a White Abalone cape and a plush white abalone puppet. In mid-July, Kristin took the whole family to Monterey so she could give a talk at the aquarium and visit an abalone farm. On the way, we stopped to see Steve, Cecil, and Piper in Santa Cruz. The girls had fun catching up! Visiting the Monterey Abalone Company was awesome, albiet a bit sketchy under the dock with a 2-year-old. Andie was appropriately exhausted after the trip. UC Davis made a cool video using footage from Kristin's July abalone adventures for a Washington Post piece . Andie enjoyed spending more time with Tashi outside of daycare. We had a trip to Hopmonk, where they threw lots of penn...
Adventures in the lives of Team Herilino