Little Farm at Tilden

We made another visit to Tilden, went to the little farm this time. Gabriel was fascinated with the animals, but not interested in touching the animals, he also just wanted to run away from us!

Checking out the large wooden statue in the information centre.

The poultry farm!On the boardwalk!

Real Food in Oakland

We went to the "Real Food in Oakland" festival at Jack London, the food was great, we got to try a lot of nice stuff, the free chocolates and the basil ice-cream was the highlight for me! We signed up to Yelp and got free green bags, and Renee got to take a photo with the lobster and Gabriel.

Alameda Beach

Took Gabriel to Alameda Beach for the first time yesterday, there was some other moms there from the Oakland Moms playgroup.
The water was very shallow, hardly no waves, reasonably clean, lots of sand and seaweed for baby to play with. I even taught him how to stamp and splash with his feet!

Again, can't seem to catch him smiling!

Photos at JC Penny

We went to get some photos done at JC Penny, Gabriel was very uncooperative, he wouldn't stay where he was placed, wouldn't look at the camera, could not get a single smile out of the whole session.This was his one smile on camera all day, when he reached out to pat this little kid that was waiting to have his photo taken.

Super Franks

This place is quite a set up, there are all these rooms for kids, they have glow in the dark golf, a games arcade, a huge play area for little kids!
Too bad we don't have any photos of Gabriel when he first arrived, the look on his face when he looked around...he was awed and a little bit overwhelmed.

Gabriel is pushing a car around instead of sitting on it.

Here is one of the many rooms at Super Franks.

Stuffing our faces with curly fries!

Aunt Shirley's visit

Gabriel and I met great-Aunt Shirley for the first time, we had lunch then an early dinner at mom's place. I think Gabriel is getting better, he's still not sure of Uncle Errol...but at least he doesn't burst into tears anymore!Jonah took this clever photo using the webcam on his laptop which turned out quite well, we actually managed to get everyone in the picture!

Mochi ice-cream!

When asked what was the highlight of my trip to Hawaii, the visit to Bubbies ice-cream immediately popped into my head. They had some great flavours, I picked out lychee, guava, azuki bean and sakura, but I got to try some other flavours, strawberry chocolate, passion, green tea and peanut butter were pretty good too!