Fun in the Sun...and Snow

All I can say is "I LOVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"!!! Where else can you play in the snow in the morning and go sailing with sunny weather by afternoon? We had planned a sailing day out of Long Beach for Saturday, April 9th because my mom and Jim know how to sail and had been anxious to take everyone out on the boat. So what a shock we had when we woke up that morning and realized that our yard had snow. We got Makenna ready in warm clothes, mittens, lots of socks, and shoes that we wrapped in plastic baggies so her feet wouldn't get wet (ghetto...I know, but what can you do)and headed out to our front yard for snow play.

This was Makenna's second time in the snow and she didn't like it the first time and she didn't like it this time either.

She really didn't want to walk through it, refused to touch it, and was beside herself when she fell down and got snow on her mittens and knees.

So even though we had been looking forward to our one snow day a year, and had to wait until April to get it, we didn't last outside too long. Once we came inside though my mom suggested that we take some snow inside and see if she would play with it then; and she did!!

She touched it,

                                                   
                                                    studied it,

                                                                                            and tasted it.

After that unexpectedly fun morning we got in the car and headed out to Long Beach to get on the sail boat. My whole family was there so we had a great time. Makenna wore her life vest and it was suggested that we try the life vest out at home sometime too because if you know Makenna, then you know that she is always busy and running around, but with the life vest on she just sat calmly in people's laps.

Toby got to steer the boat.

We saw sea lions swimming and on the buoys. The neatest thing though was when pods of dolphins came and swam right alongside and in front of the boat. It was amazing!! We had a wonderful time, even though both Toby and I got a bit sea sick, and look forward to going again sometime (along with Dramamine next time:-).

So who would have thought that we would have to wait until April to get snow and that we could have snow and sunny sailing weather in the same day. Did I mention...I love Southern California:-)