Pumpkin Smash

Who knew that at the Santa Barbara Zoo, animals get to smash pumpkins and eat them up? I do now, and so you you. I had a front row view of this happy happy elephant who smashed a giant pumpkin with his foot, and then scooped and slurped it up with his trunk so cleverly.

We met David & Heather there on our way to Lompoc so Lily could get out of the car and unwind a bit on their way to San Luis.
Thanksgiving was really nice, good food and family. It's so lovely to go home and see my folks, and play dominoes with my grandparents, and eat eat eat. The next day Dad took us out to the Pismo Beach dunes to ride around in his ranger car - I've never been out there, and it's pretty extreme. There are all these people camping in RVs with sections of the beach roped off so they can sit in lawn chairs and watch huge trucks and ATVs and smelly dune buggies roar by. Dad rode us all over the dunes, and I was pretty terrified, he's a wild man at the wheel.