Santa Barbara 2012

Each year the swim team attends a swim meet in Santa Barbara over the 4th of July weekend. Luckily Andrew and the kids are able to tag along with me and it ends up being a pretty fun weekend! 

Because I need to have Avery close to me, the team puts us in a hotel just across the street from the pool. It makes it really nice that Andrew can stay at the hotel with the kids and I can just run across the street, feed Avery, and then go back to the meet. 

Santa Barbara has a cute little zoo that Andrew took Gavin to last year, so he decided to go back there again this year. 

The zoo added two new little animals, named Katniss and Peeta.

Gavin had a great time running around and looking at the animals.

By far the best part of the zoo is feeding the giraffes! Gavin did this last year and loved it. We knew that we had to let him do it again this year.

He was very disappointed when it was time to leave.

Avery had a fun time hanging out in the room.

Later that night, after the meet was over, we went on a walk down to the Santa Barbara pier. We stopped at  this little park area where they had a pond with fish and turtles and ducks.

We had some bread and thought we would let Gavin feed the fish. We thought they would like it, but they actually didn't seem to care at all. We also looked for a sign to make sure we could feed them and couldn't find anything. Once we were done, we found the sign that said no feeding the fish! Oops!

We then walked out to the pier. It really is gorgeous.

The fog was rolling in and it looked so cool.

Every year that we have gone to Santa Barbara I have wanted to get the ice cream on the pier. This year we finally did! It was delicious!

Gavin and Andrew hamming it up for the camera.

While we were hanging out in the team area by the pool Gavin asked me to take a picture of him with his cookie.

After the meet was over we headed down to Laguna to meet up with the Jarvises again. I made Andrew stop in Ventura at the most delicious fish and chips place, Andrias. YUM!!  While waiting in line we saw a fire truck and Gavin and I had to go inspect. The firemen were so nice and let Gavin sit on the truck. He loved it!

YUM!

Another fun Santa Barbara trip!