California 2009

Our kids were dying to see the abuelitos and the cousins. Mainly because they get spoiled rotten! And this time was no exception. Even though we had our little Trey sick he did extremely well under the circumstances. We started by going to Stevens Creek up Cupertino for and afternoon where Trey sure had his fun. There's nothing like little bits of water here and there for a 1 year old to have a good time.

Then we headed down to Stinson beach by San Francisco. Where the day started of pretty sunny, until you get to SF then it started looking pretty grey. That proceeded till you got to the actual beach and then the winds began and the water was even more frigid than what we had expected. Never the less we had a beach day, it did get a little sunny by afternoon where they got a little brave and went in the water! One lesson we learned for the 100th time, overcast days are worst than hot sunny ones. This was the day we all got lots of sun and some of us sunburned. Grant making a brave run for it.



Trey literally went crazy with the sand. He threw it all over the place and was upset most of the time that he could not walk on it very long without falling. Then made it to Vasona park in Los Gatos. Very interesting park we went on a train ride and a pedal boat which was exhausting all in the same park oh, and the carousel at the end also. It was pretty. Troy was a bit concerned he did not want to move, see pedal boats have not seat belt and Trey was the opposite and wanted to go all over the boat.


Troy's first carousel ride by himself on an actual horse, usually he prefers a bench or chair.
Trey's first carousel ride with cousin Stephanie.


Next beach stop was Venice beach in Half Moon Bay this was only about a half hour from home and was a much warmer day and a much warmer cold beach. It was cool, we got to see some sea lions or seals who were swimming close by.

Yes, they are running out of the water. But it was so irresistibly cold.


The kids got brave after a while and venture in on their own, well almost. Their favorite was looking for sand dollars.

Trey loved the wet sand and enjoyed the water, he made a run for it a couple of times.

Last we hit San Fran. for a little bit of everything mainly the street entertainment. I think every time we go with the kids they seem to be aware of more things. Let's just say that it's a good way for them to get cultured or shocked. Any way this last time Karina, Grant,Abuelito and Malia got to go on a fast boat ride on the bay that took them under the Bay bridge and they got to see the Golden Gate Bridge up close from the water.

This was a carousel at pier 39, I thought it pretty neat it's got a second story. All the cousins sat on this circle thing that had the same affect as the tea cups at Disneyland. It was a pretty good trip. I was expecting to be more tired but we spread things out as best as we could and did just the right amount of things you can do with 3 little kids. Some of the post trip activities have been to color our sand dollars from the beach and to jumbo size or treat container due to hitting the chocolate store at pier 39.