So a staycation is where you stay home and vacation around the house. Here is what we did!
Our first day we went to the Oakland zoo. IT was a lot of fun but SUPER HOT!
Ella loved seeing all the animals and finding where they were in there cages!
Brandon liked the water trees dirt and BIG animals that he could see with out looking for them! Other wise he could care less
they animals were fun!
they had a lot of critters up close.
I was so afraid they would spit on the kids and then Ella wouldn't go near the cages anymore.
the kids Both loved the Elephants.
they were eating when we got there. Brandon liked that he didn't have to look for them they were so big!
they had lots of fun things like this for the kids to play with!
Frog...
Brandon hid in here for about 10 Min's.
Next we went to:
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center
part of the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory
we took a tour of the beach and heard about the animals and landscape.
we were very close to the water
it was so pretty there.
they had the bone of a blue whale and a grey whale. it was so cool to see how big they really were.
we got to see some dolphins in tanks.
this one was friendly and would swim around for us. the other one was taking a nap I think!
in side the museum there were tanks of local see life
we saw crabs, bat rays , jelly fish, coral, all sorts of fish and many other things in the tanks.
they had another spot in the tanks where they let the kids touch thinks from the ocean. they touched kelp, seaweed, sea grapes, sea lettuce and other see life!
Yep even star fish. Ella was super freaked out by these. she would only hold it long enough for a picture!
On Wednesday we went to the SAN FRANSISCO ZOO.
Now I am sure you are wondering why we went to another zoo like place. 2 reasons.
#1 Ella begged to go back to the zoo.
#2 we went because it was a "free zoo day" however we happen to go on the first day they switched it to only San Fran residents...oh well we were already there so we went!
we liked this one so much better.
the cages were nice and they made it easier to see the animals.
they had fun spots all over for the kids to take pictures and do things.
of course Brandon was still interested in the dirt water and trees!
that girl walked into the picture and wouldn't leave even though she could see we wanted to take a picture...she was trying to get behind the kids on the lion....Weird!
I thought those 2 would make a good scrap page!
Ella was so cute checking out and playing with the elephant!
She is a beautiful butterfly!
he is an angry SPIDER...EWWW CREEPY!
we took Thursday off and ran errands and got the house straightened up and Friday we went to the jelly belly factory and we took Jessica with us. we had a great time. it was really neat because all the workers were there and we got to see every one working and how ti really works. The kids were super excited at the end when they gave them a free bag of Jelly belly's!!!
