We’re trying to take advantage of our new surroundings and visit some of the great things available to us. We’ve been to the Exploratorium a few times. (Bruce took the boys again while I was in Napa; they had quite an adventure just getting there on the train since there was a Giants game that day and it was Pride weekend.)
We’ve also visited California Academy of Sciences, which had lots of great stuff including a rain forest section, a planetarium, a skull exhibit and penguins. Ezra liked this giant frog.
Finn wasn’t too sure about this ridiculously huge snake.
The living roof was pretty cool.
I also took the boys to Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, where Finn and I had gone on a field trip a few months before. It’s not the most lively place, but there’s a lot of good airplane history. The boys’ favorite thing was the helicopter simulator. Specifically, they liked to crash it.
They also liked pretending to pilot the big plane.
For a change of pace, one day the three of us went to Santa Cruz. We were armed with squirt guns, buckets and shovels and the boys were undaunted by the chilly, foggy weather.
They had some pretty good battles.
Eventually the sun started to peek out. They did some digging.
Finn asked to be partially buried.
It turned out to be a beautiful day at the beach.