SoCal - Post 5

Thursday we headed to the beach!  Kaden was so, so, SO excited to build a sandcastle. It's all he talked about for a full month before our trip.

Danny and Kaden

Kaden holds the record as the first child of mine to step foot in the ocean.  :)

The girls staying warm

 It was in the mid-60s, but very breezy.  Steph and the girls stayed on the towel at first.

Steph and Ari going for a walk.

Lexi finally warmed up enough to venture out into the ocean.

She loved it.  :)

Danny getting more water for the sandcastle.

Lexi picking up a shell.

Ari finally tried out the ocean!

Ari, me, and Lexi

Still workin' hard

The finished castle!  Complete with moat and everything!

The water for the moat kept sinking back into the sand.

We only got to be there a little over an hour.  We had to get to the Pirate Dinner Adventure!

It's a dinner show with pirates.  ;)

Danny and Steph bought this package deal for the kids to get swords, eye patches, hats, and their faces painted.  They LOVED it!

Kaden didn't want his face painted, so we had Ari do it!

Our choice for Ari was the same as Lexi, so I turned into the meanest mom ever when I decided not to have Ari get a scarred heart like Lexi...I opted for a more manly route...

BAHAHAHA  The girl painting faces checked three times to make sure I was serious about the goatee.

Arg!!

They introduced the pirates (everyone was on a "team").  Our pirate was the silly one and our team color was purple.

Steph, Lexi, and Danny

Scurvy pirates

Shane, Ari, me, and Kaden

He was in heaven!

The show was really fun and the food was good!

They had an aerialist on silks who made me think of my friend, Christy.

This wasn't our pirate, but he was HOT!!

Lexi and our silly pirate after the show

It was a really fun show!  I only had one complaint and that was that the main girl in the play (not the aerialist!) was dressed like a skank!  I could see much more cleavage and lower butt than I wanted to, and this is marketed as a KIDS show.  I was really surprised by it.

If you ask the kids what their favorite part of California was, they will undoubtedly tell you the pirates show and the beach.  It was a really great day.  :)