They have some plastic mammoths outside in a pretty unhappy display
Yikes…
But it makes pretty rainbows…
Pit 91… looks like h abyss
Leilani took a great picture of this saber tooth cat family
Dire wolf skulls, about 460 of them on display but they found a lot more
Dire wolf Skeletons
Mammoth
Can you please read this?
We went on a tour, and Leilani asked intelligent questions. She managed to stay with it and focussed for over 30 minutes.
Andy loved this evolution ribbon
We celebrated Christmas 3 times this year, the 3rd and last time was when we arrived at Davids’
Look at, my new clothes fit!
We had a great dinner
And even better cookies.
On the 26th we packed our car and drove to LA. We had a late lunch in Soledad, near the mission.
Next Stop was in Pismo Beach, Leilani “surfed”
We went for a walk and picked up flowers in a Christmas Bag (Someone had gone through, picked and tossed a lot of flowers before, conveniently someone else had also dropped a bag. and Leilani needed all the flowers. They are dry and ready for crafts now.)
The Santa Barbara Mission…
…had a Nativity scene with live animals…
…and a beautiful rosegarden full of other little kids to play with.
Leilani took some unique photos at the rose garden. I call this “No Rose Without Dorns”. She actually wanted the photo to be cropped when she saw how it had turned out.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We had lots of gifts. Too many probably… but nothing that can’t be fixed with a little foodcoloring. Sadly Leilani got some, and behaved so badly, that we started to take away gifts.
If you spoke to her on the phone she might have admitted to refusing her lunch, and not going to bed, but she left out the things that happened in the 12 hours between (she went to bed around midnight, about 2 hours after I tried to go to bed the first time…)
Today fortunately she was almost back to normal, just very hyper and wild. Here she had almost finished dressing dressed and looked very pretty.
In the background you can see the gifts that actually stayed. The rest went to the garage and will stay there until next year. Leilani is very famous for stoically enduring punishments (I admired that many times on her) and suggested we give these gifts to the needy children…
Her best friend at school gave her the dog for her birthday, she loves it.
Opening presents.
Santa still brought her a bunch of gifts – just what she wanted: Light up candy…
But he also wrote her a letter, warning her there would be nothing next year unless she learned to behave better…
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