Noah’s Ark

We’ve been wanting to visit this exhibit for a while, but you have to buy tickets in advance and it kept falling off the “to do” list. I finally got around to getting tickets and it was well worth it. Taken from the Skirball Cultural Center site:
“Inside a floor-to-ceiling wooden ark, filled to the rafters [...]

family trip and sleeping woes…

I realized that we had never gone on a “real” family trip that didn’t involve visiting relatives (mostly my parents in Seattle). So we decided to go on a road trip to San Francisco for the long Memorial day holiday weekend. I lived in SF from 99-2001, and it is still my favorite city. Our [...]

hello auntie! goodbye auntie!

After months of giving her guilt trips for not spending enough time with her only nephew, Aunt Rebecca finally came to visit LA! After all, Tyler sees his Uncle David at least 3 times/month but has only faint memories of Aunt Rebecca. Rebecca was only here for 4 days but we packed in lots of [...]

hot hot heat

The weather has been unbearably hot the last few days. Hot weather plus our broken air conditioner = time to get out of the house on the weekends. On Saturday we took Tyler to the Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena. The museum has a great indoor space that includes a climbing tower and several “galleries” [...]