Hansel's Birthday, Veteran's Day and the SF Zoo

Both Maile and Beck had Veteran's Day off. Hansel's birthday is on Veteran's Day. So we decided that Hansel would take the day off and we would take the kids to the California Academy of Sciences. At breakfast, we gave him one of his presents -- a camera bag for the SLR. I had taken the kids shopping earlier in the week. We gave it to him in the morning, so he could use it that day.

As we were about to turn right on 9th Ave to go to the California Academy, we saw that cars going into the park were backed up to that intersection. So I suggested we go to the SF Zoo, which ended up not being crowded.

Beck waiting for the Zoo train

Maile trying to get Beck to look at the camera

Maile measuring her span against a gorilla's

Later we gave him his second present, which was a laptop fan pad he could use when watching TV (which is pretty much every night). I did better this time on gifts. We didn't return or exchange either of them. After the kids went to sleep, Mathis and I presented Hansel with a home-made pumpkin cheesecake. It hadn't cooled in time for Maile and Beck to partake. Oh well, more for us :p