Santa Monica Pier

Saturday we woke up ready to roll.  We headed down to the hotel restaurant to grab some breakfast.  I wanted to get a picture of Finn and I...

You want me to say cheese, I'll say cheese...

After breakfast we headed over to the Santa Monica Pier...

As we walked around, Tosh thought it looked familiar...

 He said it was the setting of Grand Theft Auto...

 A cool bike rental shop...

 As we walked through this parking lot he said, "I have stolen so many cars out of this parking lot."

  We took Finn over to the arcade.  Fist he rode some of the sweet rides...

The arcade wasn't open yet so we walked around and stumbled onto a concert for kids...

 It was pretty neat.  In between the kid songs they would play Doobie Brothers and stuff.  There was an awesome harmonica player.

After this we made our way back to the arcade.  Finn was not the only one excited to play...

Tosh was stoked to see this...

   Finn was excited for this...

 and I was excited for this...

 

  Next we hit up the Santa Monica Pier Carousel.  Finn was really excited about this.  It was a really awesome building and an awesome carousel.  I unfortunately had a heck of a time getting on...

I caught Tosh smiling. (It is hard to see under the beard but apparently a little pony ride will put a smile on Tosh's face.)

And Finn's too...

I can't get enough of that look on Finn's face.  He really loved it.

We ended the day by going to the Aquarium...

Once we got to California we started getting Finn in bed at his normal early time.  This meant we had to be back at the hotel really early.  Even though we had less time in the days to do things, the time we had was happier and Finn did way better.   

Once he would go to sleep in the hotel, it left Tosh and I awkwardly trying to whisper in the dark or playing on our phones.  We actually started going to bed at the same time as him.  So we all had 12 hour nights. It was pretty awesome really, except at 3 am when I would wake up ready to roll. Luckily, I was always able to go back to bed until 6:45 when the clock would turn green. (Finn's clock came too. It turns green when he can wake.  He will never sleep a second longer.)