Sunday in Santa Barbara

Today we took a little road trip to Santa Barbara, about 90 minutes north of L.A.

 

Sancho on a road trip

 

We started off with a walk around State Street and down to Stearns Wharf to visit the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Sea Center.

 

 

The Sea Center

 

William loved this fish tunnel.

Museum staff dip buckets directly into the ocean below and draw up seawater and living animals to show the kids.

 

 

William runs amok with a seal puppet.

Then we went to lunch at Padaro Beach Grill, a seaside café with a wide open lawn that runs down to the beach and a big sand area for kids to play in while they eat.

Beatrice reading on the lawn

 

View from the restaurant

Fish tacos

 

Restaurant play area

Then we walked down to the beach. This was Sancho's first time on a beach and he loved it - even if he kept trying to drink seawater.

Seawater is not for drinking.

 

 

Sitting in a shallow depression filled with seawater, never felt more alive

Then we went to McConnell's for ice cream and to the carousel and playground in Chase Palm Park.

 

 

 

And then finally back home.