The Souvenir

The trip to Seaside was too short!  Nobody was ready to come home but work and homeschooling were waiting. So we made plans to come back and visit Seaside again soon.

Kylie and Clara found a neat souvenir at the aquarium.  It is a necklace that comes with a mussel, preserved in a can.  You can take it home, crack open the mussel, find your pearl and then put it in your necklace.  It was fun and educational.  We had to look up how pearls are formed in the wild.  We found out that most pearls are cultured.  A tiny piece of tissue is implanted into the shell and that starts the process.

Here they are finding their pearls and putting them in their necklaces.

Kylie:

Inside the see-through can

My girly girl isn't so sure she wants to do it at this point

Opening the shell

Tucked down in the layers, there it is!

Putting the pearl in the necklace

And Clara:

Not as timid as her sister