Elephant Seals and Zoo!

Today we went to see some animals!  We started by driving up the coast and checking out the elephant seals.  The kids were excited to see them being lazy on the sand, protecting their section of the beach, nursing the baby seals, and making lots of weird noises.  

 I think the more we said don't climb the fence the more they wanted to.

 One alpha male protecting his turf.

Not thrilled about taking a photo but if you can zoom in you can see a lighthouse in the background.  (And yes, the boys are wearing their rain boots even through it wasn't rained basically at all in 2013 and not projected yet for 2014.)

 Then we were off to the zoo.  The kids were very excited to see the Christmas decorations that were still up.  They wanted to check those out before the real animals.  Silly kids.

And to finish the post, there was a turkey that I had seen follow a fellow zoo visitor who was trying to take a photo.  When the turkey came over we had some fun.  Check it out.