Doing The Tourist Thing In LA

K and J are both still on their winter break, so we've been doing the tourist-y thing in LA over the last few days.

Today we visited the LA Zoo for the first time. It's not as big as the San Diego zoo, nor as varied, but still enough to make J and E very happy. J woke up early this morning, all ready to leave for the zoo, even while the rest of us were still in bed.

Here he's checking out a lion through a telescope.
You can tell from the photo that today was an unseasonably warm day! (We are bracing for a cold few days ahead though - showers are forecasted.)

Earlier this week we left the car at home and took the train down to LA, primarily for the sake of taking the train. Since we didn't have our car with us all day, we broke in our new stroller. It is way easier to manage than our current double stroller. It folds up smaller and is so much easier to push. Turning the stroller is now effortless. Another plus: E doesn't get a chance to kick J, which she does when they're in the current stroller, much to J's annoyance.

Looking out of the train

This is probably the closest we'll ever get to the Museum of Contemporary Art.