In a last-minute trip, we visited our friends Ben+Robin, and their boys Jakob+Noah on their ranch up the central coast last week. They grow avocados, lemons, caviar limes, etrogs and bees; they have an incredible "garden" (it's bigger than our back yard) and they are putting in more passionfruit this year...while they build a fantastic family home that overlooks the ocean.
Despite a rainy trip, we were treated to fantastic views, as usual! Ben only had to bulldoze one small landslide on the mile-long driveway after the rain, to allow some townies up for a pre-k play date!
Jakob shared his train set and Rye was in hog heaven. By the end of the trip he was rearranging the track to "improve" the layout.
Noah and Rye build some Montessori skills with clothespins and buckets.
Pumpkin pie spiced play dough with rubber stamps and cookie cutters! A treat for a rainy day.
There are always fresh eggs for breakfast in Korlandia. Thanks to the bobcats, however, there are nooot quite as many fresh eggs as there were last summer...
Ranch walk. Rye slept in the stroller on the way back.We stopped at the Santa Barbara Zoo on the way home. What a lovely little zoo! You can see the animals up close, which is much more intimate than the L.A. Zoo. We saw the otters get their dinners (live crickets are a treat for them), a big lion, a gorilla, and much more. The enclosures are a bit tiny, however; this is not a zoo for "anti-zoo" people.
Rye loves giraffes, and knows that you see them at the zoo. Maybe because they have a built-in handle? He loves the giraffe Schleich animal and carries him around by the neck.
What's a road trip without a cheesy rest stop at a "family" restaurant with a pretty mediocre meal? Good soup; the rest of the experience was a pretty old-fashioned, Midwest experience. Anyone remember Bill Knapp's? It was a slightly nicer version of that. With a more extensive (and just as cheesy) gift shop.
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