This past weekend we took a day off and drove up through Venice Beach to Santa Monica to go to the pier. The kids were very excited as soon as they saw the rides on the pier but as soon as we got up there the ride section was closed for a charity event sponsered by Mattel to raise money for Childrens Memorial Hospital. We got lucky that the arcade was open so we spent $10 in there playing games with Ben and giving Jack and Sam kiddie rides.
After we left the pier we walked to the Promenade (a street that's closed to cars and is lined with shops of all types) to let them run some energy off. Sam loved being able to just go where he wanted to go while Jack, Ben, and Brent did a little window shopping. **Odd sidebar...we looked for over an hour for an ice cream shop and the closest they had was a gelatto stand, weird!** We ended up at a nearby REI to get Brent new sunglasses and put air in the stroller tires. The kids got to feed the pigeons outside REI when they were having a snack, they thought that was the coolest thing.
Following Santa Monica we drove through the Malibu Hills to just look around so Jack and Sam could nap. That led us to Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive before we went to our surprise for dinner - a TRAIN CAFE on Sunset in West Hollywood! Jack and Sam loved it, Ben wasn't impressed until after we got outside and walked around and saw it was really on train tracks.
So much for packing, huh?
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