Trip to California

The Monday after Thanksgiving Porter, Finn, Kirk and I drove to Southern California to stay with Kirks mom for a week. We had a LOT of fun. She lives in Dana Point, and we loved getting up in the mornings and looking out at the ocean from her dining room. We did a lot of fun things on our trip. The first day we were there we went to the Aquarium of the Pacific.

The boys were amazed! Finn had a great time dancing with the Puffin. Porters favorite part was the Cockatoo show. Finn was quite a photographer. He wanted to take pictures of all the animals.

They loved getting a little keepsake snuggle animal to remember their fun day at the aquarium, and walking along the pier afterwards, right across from the Queen Mary.

It was a great day. Later on we went to Santa Monica and walked along the big pier there. The boys wanted to try several different desserts that were sold along the promenade. Finn chose something called a xooro (pronounced sure-o) It was delicious and the packaging was really fancy. Porter didnt like the dessert, but wanted to keep the package. Then after walking for quite a way trying to find an icecream place (everyone around us was in coats, but my boys are in shorts looking for an ice cream store - do you think they could tell we were tourists.) We finally found a Citrus Valley yogurt shop. It was really beautifully decorated, (probably why I noticed it) and sold only plain, unsweetened frozen yogurt that you could put toppings on. The boys tried it before we ordered, and I could tell that Porter didn't really like it. I asked him if he liked it and he said he thought it would be better with toppings on it. The had a gorgeous, colorful buffet of fresh fruits you would choose from, but Porter chose m&m's and Finn, predictably choose gummy bears. When we sad down Finn devoured his, eating everything but the yellow gummy bears, because I just don't eat the yellows mom, but Porter barely touched his. I asked him why he ordered it if he knew he didn't like it. He said he just didn't want to hurt the clerks feelings. I love that he is so sensitive to others feelings, even though the 15 yr. old kid who was listening to his ipod and playing on a laptop probably couldn't have cared less.