Thanksgiving

I am a little behind but we celebrated Thanksgiving down in our old hood Oceanside with Teresa, Auntie, and Nick.  I managed to not get a few swinging pictures on Thanksgiving day, that's all.  But made up for it when we went to the SD zoo and Balboa park the next day.

Bill Murray impersonation 

The zoo was a mad house but we still managed to see tons of stuff

Flamingos...check

Monkeys...check

Fish....check

Orangutans...check

Trev even made a new friend...they both high fived the primate

A monkey riding a hippo....check

And Ryden's favorite...the Panda's...check!

Then I made Ryden sit on a metal hippo...not too impressed

Teresa and Jason took the boys into the petting zoo while I sat on the sidelines.  Just not my thing...But seemed to totally be Trevin's thing!

Photo by the great Ryden.  When Ry is taking your picture it helps to bend down so your head doesn't get cut off

The only way I could get Ry to go into the petting zoo was the promise of washing his hands in the mini sink afterwards

Time to get out some energy

After the zoo...we headed to Balboa Park to kill sometime before Auntie got off work...we rode this cute little train

Airplane ride!

This is the first attempt at trying to take a nice picture by the fountain....awesome Ryden

2nd attempt....

3rd attempt...drama Trevin

 

Much easier with just the two of us

Then we headed over to Ryden's dream place...the Cactus Garden!

Then Ryden got a hold of the camera

Just a boy...staring off...pondering life

Taking a picture with Trevin = Nightmare on Elm Street

So artistic...