Playing in Pacifica

We're back! From June 25th to the 29th, Elena and I were in California for my cousin Chad's wedding. We flew out and stayed the first night with my aunt in Pacifica. We had all day on thursday, as my parents and siblings wouldn't get into town until that evening. My Aunt Susan generously left us with a car, gps and carseat while she went to work. So, with time to kill, we headed to the beach! Which actually was not far at all from my aunt's house on the hill. Here's the view from the back of the house:



The front of the house faces the hill. So, we played a bit on the chilly beach. It was probably 60 degrees, but the water had to be ten degrees colder than that. Brrr! I let Elena run around in the sand like she had seen all the time on her little tv shows. But she got scared of the chilly water as it came up and got her out of no where. She kept wanting me to carry her. Poor thing! So we back away from the waves a ways and found an old plastc shovel, and then the fun began! Here are some pics. Gorgeous beach! It's usually overcast here, but the sky is even darker because of all the wildfires. Craziness!



Later on that day we went to the San Francisco Zoo, and a playpark with my cousin Erin and her kids. Aunt Susan joined us for a picnic lunch at the playpark. KFC, baby! The funniest thing happened there. Elena was just running around all the fun things to her heart's content, when I looked over and a gaggle of 5 or so kids had started following her around. They varied in age, the oldest maybe 8 or 10 years old, but they just thought she was the funnest little toy in the whole place! They were helping her get on the big kid toys and just following her around, and she didn't mind a bit! It was the cutest thing. Like she was the pied piper, or something. My camera had died, otherwise I would have gotten a shot of it. So funny. I'll post more about the wedding later!