Clearing out my cell phone's archive...
Michael and I had a father/son event - LA Opera performed The Marriage of Figaro at the Smothers Theater on campus. Michael loves everything about performance: costuming, singing, staging.
There's quite a bit of children's theater in the area. Michael and Jack have seen Eric Carle's Hungry Caterpillar, Flat Stanley, and The Nutcracker.***
The Playmobil pirate ship has been a hit, although the missing parts to this Christmas present have been slowly trickling in from its New Jersey headquarters. Michael likes integrating various kits; Mary, from the nativity set, rests on the hammock below and above the peering king.
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We also went to the Santa Barbara Z00 - a scaled-down area with a train along the perimeter. Beautifully situated off the beach, it is heavy on reptiles and birds, it seems to me.I've never been a zoo regular before, but we have been coming here since moving to LA in 2004; long enough to notice the absence of a SB Zoo's celebrity. Gemina, the crooked-necked giraffe, died while we were in Switzerland.
Giraffe feeding.Michael sled down the hill on the map.
The boys flanked Elle on the choo choo train. It was a perfect day to explore neighborhoods (discovering great parks and play equipment), tour the beautiful courthouse (a wedding allowed us to see otherwise locked interior hallways), and try new things, like a local ice cream stand and Paradise Cafe, a wonderful institution featuring burgers and green mussels on their oak grill. All these places were always nearby yet unnoticed on past trips.
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