The Santa Monica Pier

On a sunny southern California day, we visited the Santa Monica Pier!  Here are the kids and the view looking out towards the end of the pier.

Here are my girls in their shades strutting their stuff on the pier.  Notice Leah has her purse. 

The kids got in on the action with this performer in the middle of the pier.  I say PARTY you say TIME....PARTY TIME!  It was too funny!

Here we are at the end of the pier looking back at the beach. 

There is an arcade and an amusement park on the pier.  Of course we couldn't pass up the arcade.  Does this look like the machine from BIG?  We thought so, so we tried it.  Turns out Eddie and Blake did not switch places.

Kara hit the 1000 ticket jackpot.  She was so excited.  It took a long time for the machine to spit out 1000 tickets.  And then she did something very surprising...she used the tickets to get a prize for Blake!

Also at the pier was a little aquarium.  The kids had fun seeing some of the sea creatures up close.

And they got to touch some too.

We finished up the trip with a ride on a really old carousel and ice cream drinks from the old time soda fountain.  It was a fun day, we are enjoying discovering California!