The Santa Ana Zoo

Leah loves animals of all sorts, except maybe turkeys...so on a free Saturday afternoon a trip to the zoo was in order.  Santa Ana is less than half hour away...so it fit the bill.

There was a jeep, Kara likes to pose for pictures, so...

Leah is walking all over the place now so she loved getting out of the stroller at the zoo to check out the animals.

As you can see, she brought her purse.  She carries it around all the time.  I don't know how she keeps track of it, it just keeps showing up.  She stole it from Kara, luckily Kara doesn't mind. 

Blake made it into a picture!  It's tough competition with two sisters...but we try not to forget him!

And here's where we met the turkey.  Leah didn't really notice him sneaking up on her, she was busy playing in the dirt and smiling for the camera.

But when she looked up and saw him right there, she was not a happy camper :(

It was a fun day.  We are looking forward to a trip to the San Diego Zoo soon.

The Beach!

After a few solid weeks here in the OC we had to go check out the beach.  Now we had been down to Laguna Beach but we needed to see where the "locals" hang out.  I asked a neighbor and we were off to Salt Creek Beach.  This is what it looked like:

See the high cliff?  The parking is that high up so it is quite a trek down to the beach.  Now, we Reardons don't pack very light so there was some serious strategy happening to figure out how to get everything down to the beach in one trip.  Eddie looked like a pack-mule but we did it.  Thank goodness for the funicular (I think that's what it was called.  Kind of like an elevator, but it went down at an angle.)

It was really pretty, and a perfect day as you can tell by the crowd there.  Blake grabbed a boogie board and headed straight to the waves.  The water was icy cold!  After dipping in a toe, Leah and I retreated to our umbrella.  Kara braved the water for a bit, but then settled on the sand.

 Shortly after I took this picture the lifeguard came out and got Eddie and Blake.  He was "surfing" in a "no surf" zone.  Also, lifejackets aren't allowed she said.  Really?  Apparently the logic here in CA is a little different, they think it's safer without lifejackets.  That explains why no one else on the beach was wearing them. 

 Leah was right at home in the sand.  She had a blast and only ate a little :)