End Of the Road.

So, This past weekend we ventured into the city again to hand in T's class work that we have been compiling through all of the trips in the last month or so. Since there was no real "class" the lady asked students to meet her at griffith park in LA. That is right next to the LA Zoo so we decided to make a day out of it. Here, the fam walks to hand in the A+ work.

The Zoo wasn't open yet and there was some sort of thing going on so we hung around for a bit.

Eventually the Zoo opened. Turns out it was Earth Day and there were booths with sponsors and things. One of them painted faces for free.

We walked around and took in some sights, scents, and sounds.

As you can see the animals were up close and friendly this time around. A got up close to a large lizard and an orangutan. Z got right up next to a gorilla who played a bit of a game with her.

When Z would look the gorilla wouldn't but then when Z looked away the gorilla would look at her. The gorilla even got up and banged on its chest but there was a crowd around (and in the cameras way) by the time that happened. We drove home and all fell asleep.

Since then we've been busy with walks and making the kids eat food they haven't tried before. Turns out Aiden hates the wind really likes indian food.

This is all for now. RTSZA

Post Easter Easter REDUX: The Final Installment in the Trilogy

So, We had the spoil rottens up for a week after easter easter egg hunt. They came up on saturday and we went shopping and had a rather successful meal out. Let's just say whether or not our kids will decide to eat, scream, throw things or sit quietly is often up in the air while eating out. We also had another easter egg hunt, that means more candy and more running around and MORE PICTURES!

Here is the result of all of that candy, a little something to give you nightmares.

That is all- -RTSZA_

Post Easter Post. Pre our Post Easter Easter Celebration!

So, As promised here are our Easter shots. Our friends down the street threw a little dinner/ egg hunt/ kids play fun thing and we decided to go to that. T's parents will be coming up this weekend so we're gonna have a post easter easter with them. For now here are the shots. They had lots of toys and things for the kids to play with.

Then we lined up all of the kids for the egg hunting and sent them off.

After the egg hunting there was a tradition of smashing confetti eggs all over everyone and everything.

After a party like that they needed a break.

It was super fun. The kid had a great time and it's really nice to hang out with good folks in the neighborhood. RTSZA

Pre Easter Activities Posted Post Easter

So, In our last episode we were in search of the perfect 5th grade field trip spot. We notched a few more on the belt last weekend. The first was a local joint. The antelope valley has a long history of aviation history to it with plant 42 producing a lot of the secret planes and test plans through the early 80's. There is now a museum dedicated to this fact in Palmdale. We went there and learned about planes and bombs and missiles.

That destination might not be the best due to the weather extremes out here. It was cold that day so T took her notes and we booked it. The following day we went down to Calabasas to hang out with the Kardashians. T figured that she could get her students to write about the utterly vapid state of american popular culture. We never actually found the kardashian clan but we saw lamborghini's. ferrari's, bentleys, and more $100,000+ cars that I can list. We also happened upon the Leonis Adobe. Turns out some dude owned almost the entire san fernando Valley area at one point in California's history under the "I'll murder you and take your land act" of the old west. It was actually a great destination for field trips. We were the first ones there so all of the actors in period costumes greeted us and showed us around personally. They had animals to feed and plaques to read and lambs in need. It is restored to it's original state outhouses and all.

The lamb in the back is an orphan so they have to hand feed it every hour.

T believes Leonis Adobe to be the perfect 5th grade field rip destination so our search has ended. That and the fact that she's done the required number of visits now for her class. It's been fun going to all of these places the last few weeks. The Easter post is coming later since I have a bunch of pics to sort through for that one. RTSZA