August

August was warm and and we tried to cram in some fun things before school started up again.  We went to the beach one day, down in Alameda.  The boys and I had a great time building sandcastles and playing in the water.  Aaron tried to avoid the sand and sun and read a book :)  

 

See?  That's Aaron up there under the umbrella, reading.  He's not much of a beach bum :)  I forgot our camera and took most of these with my phone, so the quality isn't great.  Afterwards, we took a drive near the old Alameda airway.  It's small and the place where The Mythbusters do a bunch of their experiments.  The boys were hoping we'd see them there and get to watch an experiment, but no such luck!

 

A week later, we went to annual trip to see a Giants game with Aaron's lab.  The Giants lost, but we had a great time cheering and eating lots of junk food.

Just before school started again, we went to the Lawrence Hall of Science.  It's a hands-on kids museum full of fun and science related exhibits.  My boys love it!

I had a hard time keeping track of them.  They kept taking off in opposite directions!  Once they found the Creativity room, they settled in and played for a couple of hours.

Just before school started, we went to the Oakland Zoo.  It's much smaller than the San Francisco Zoo, but still fun.  We took the Skytrak and saw the lions, elephants, giraffes, yaks and a bunch of the other big animals from the sky.

 

  

We also got some goofy pictures :D