Finally, More California Fun

A few more fun pictures from our trip to California. We did do something besides the beach. Here is the proof.

There is a fabulous 9/11 Memorial at Pepperdine that Mara and Ben told us about, and we were actually able to find it. Great views, really nice and quite and really beautiful place.

These two shots might give you a little hint that Gavin also enjoyed himself there. He wasn't very reverent, but I guess everyone enjoys these kind of things in their own way.

We also made a really great jaunt to the Griffith Observatory. It had some great views and some interesting science and space exhibits as well. Here are Caleb and Gavin enjoying the view. We were also very close to the Hollywood sign up there, you can see it nice and little in the background of these two shots. It looks bigger in real life.We tried several times to find hikes to go on, and the closest that we came was this path at Griffith Park. Gavin really enjoyed it though, and it also had some great views.
We made a very brief stop at Hollywood, and after being mobbed by all the freaks, we decided that it was probably a much too long stop. But the Chinese theatre was pretty cool, and Gavin got to pretend to be a star.
This is the Santa Monica pier... delightfully being eatin by the dragon.
We did have some down time with Mara and Ben in the evenings, and Gavin enjoyed reading with Mara.
We did also go to the California Science Center. It was pretty fun, though a lot of things were over Gavin's head, but he liked pushing all the buttons. They did have a Discovery Room that featured things geared more towards toddlers... but unfortunately there were way too many rules in there, so we opted to leave early and take him to the playground near the museum instead.

Here is little Henry sitting in his stroller chillin'. You will notice that he has barefeet... this turned out to be one thing that kept us out of the Discovery Room... apparently no one can go in without shoes or socks on... I guess that meant that Henry was looking really smart and advanced on that day, like a 2 month old that might jump out of his stroller and start running around touching things with his tiny barefeet. Doesn't he look reckless like that? Or I guess they might have thought that we were just neglegent parents who never put shoes on our kids... especially when it was 75 degrees and he is a little baby. Oh well, that was just the first of the rules that got to us... the others were just icing on the cake.

Gavin did have a great time playing on a helicopter that they had their. He loved flying it.

He also had fun playing soccer with Mara on the blue screen. Here they are blocking a goal.