Reduce Reuse Recycle!!!!

So I have been trying to use less and less to avoid leaving my carbon footprint on this earth but after this weekend I got a taste of what it can really do to the creatures around us. Tim and I took a little day trip across the bridge and visited that Marine Mammal Center, which is basically a hospital for Marine Mammal's that get washed ashore because of injuries. We learned that most injuries are caused by the trash that gets washed to sea. Our Trash! Here are a few photos of our day.

The view from our drive so crazy how such a big city can look so small from up here.

the following photos are animal art sculptures made from trash that was found in the ocean

many sea turtles die from ingesting trash that suffocates them to death

This sea star was made from glass bottles and pieces that were found in the water

A fish made from plastic and rope garbage found in the ocean

This Jelly Fish was made from plastic water bottles found in the ocean

A little seal made from trash

this is what it looks like to fish swimming through all the trash

the actual size of the Elephant seal it's even taller than Tim

How cute is this little seal sculpture looking out at the view.

Sailing around in the Bay!!!!

So a couple weeks ago a good friend of ours invited us to go sailing in the San Francisco Bay! We of course jumped at that chance! We were excited to see the bay and bundle up for a day on the water. What we didn't expect was to run into a fleet of pacific islander sailors who navigated their way to San Francisco using nothing but the stars and the method of ancient ship navigation. Hokulea visit the link to read about their voyage.

We were lucky enough to catch up with them right as they entered the Bay!
This was the only white Ship isn't the artwork on the sail cool!
Us sailors just posing for a pic!

Hōkūleʻa^[1] is a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a waʻa kaulua,^[2][3] a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe.^[4][5] Launched on 8 March 1975^[6] by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, she is best known for her 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage performed with Polynesian navigation techniques,^[7] without modern navigational instruments.^[8] The primary goal of the voyage was to further support the anthropological theory of the Asiatic origin of native Oceanic people (Oceania maps:detail, region), of Polynesians and Hawaiians in particular, as the result of purposeful trips through the Pacific, as opposed to passive drifting on currents, or sailing from theAmericas.^[9][10] (Scientific results of 2008, from DNA analysis, illuminate this theory of Polynesian settlement.)^[11] A secondary goal of the project was to have the canoe and voyage "serve as vehicles for the cultural revitalization of Hawaiians and other Polynesians." (Finney,Voyage of Rediscovery, p. 71)^[12]

Since the 1976 voyage to Tahiti and back, Hōkūle‘a has completed nine more voyages to destinations in Micronesia, Polynesia, Japan,Canada, and the United States, all using ancient wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation. Her last completed voyage began 19 January 2007, when Hōkūle‘a left Hawaiʻi with the voyaging canoe Alingano Maisu on a voyage through Micronesia (map) and ports in southern Japan.^[a] The voyage was expected to take five months. On 9 June 2007,^[13] Hōkūle‘a completed the "One Ocean, One People" voyage to Yokohama, Japan. On April 5, 2009,^[14] Hōkūle‘a returned to Honolulu following a roundtrip training sail to Palmyra Atoll,^[15][16]undertaken to develop skills of potential crewmembers for Hōkūle‘a's eventual circumnavigation, currently planned to commence in 2012.^[17]

The Life and Times of Being Married

Well it has been quite the summer it's actually been nothing short of incredible!!!! I will try to update you on how the summer went for me and my husband Tim haha so fun saying that now! as the days roll on but I decided that it's been a while since I have given this blog some loving and since I finally have some time on my hand I figured I would do a little quick post.

So what's new with me besides being married well Tim and I made the long drive back up to the city by the bay (San Francisco for those of you who might not know). He started work on Monday and I actually don't start for a couple weeks so I've been writing my thank you notes which is turning out to be quite the job I guess that's what happen's when you are blessed with so many awesome friends and family! Anyways the wedding was a dream come true for Tim and I not only was it incredibly amazing with the beautiful location decorations and perfect San Diego weather the highlight aside from becoming Mrs. Fischer was how awesome it was to have all of our friends and family everyone we love in one place it was incredible! Our wedding party was made up of the most amazing generous loving people and I just wanted the weekend to last forever! Anyways it really was a blessed day! Now we are here back to reality and I feel like this year is going to be different because I had such an amazing summer and I know that whenever I want my friends are just a phone call away, and before I know it school will be done and I will be back in Sunny Southern California!