Santa Barbara in photos!

This weekend we went on a spur of the moment trip to Santa Barbara with Carrie and her family. It was a work trip for her and we just tagged along. Friday we arrived and joined in on kid's day at Cox. Yes, she throws parties for a living!
The kids got to tour the trucks.Micah loved that!We love cupcakes!That night we all joined up to head to the pier to have dinner. On our way we ran into this monstrosity. Santa Barbara wins the ultimate hippy award! He said you can take all the pictures you want, but he would like a donation because that's what keeps the hippy rolling in more ways than one. I snapped away, but didn't feel good about supporting his love of cannabis, so I stiffed him. Sorry!

Walking up the pier.
Brooklyn stopped and said she was "looking for mermaids." How cute!
My kids and jaws.
The pier.
Out to dinner and Brooklyn needed a drink. Looks like the real deal right? It's just apple juice. No worries!
Saturday, we headed to the zoo! We got to see the penguins being fed.
Micah was the navigator.
The elephants were out!
The giraffes were awesome.
I was there too!
Micah is a monkey!
So is Brooklyn!
Abby and Brooklyn are buddies!
We were hanging out with the apes.
How funny is Micah's face?We fed the goats.
There were birds here and there.
More birds.

We even got to see a snow leopard! The funniest thing though was the howler monkeys. I wish I had gotten it on camera. They sound like car alarms. We went down to see them and they were up in their trees. I told Micah to make the noises they did. Micah started making that car alarm noise and all of a sudden they started climbing down the trees to see what the heck was going on. There were two of them that just sat there watching Micah and looking totally confused. i think Micah might be the monkey whisperer (or maybe sqwaker would be a better word for that.) Anyways, they trip was fun. Carrie's family is beyond awesome and we were glad we went. Thanks Carrie!