Tar and Imagination

Go back about a week.  We got off the plane at about 7am US time but this time it took a long time to get through customs; not because they held us up but because ours bags came off last.  WE were met by Robert and Ken.  Levi loved them instantly as you would expect and then the next 12 hours involved the daunting task of keeping him awake for at least most of that time.  We went looking for fossils.



Levi testing his strength against tar



Robert, Levi and Ken



Levi loved the La Brea Tar Pits and was able to touch and move things so it kept him awake well.  There was a quick moment in one of the movies that we thought we were in danger of his drifting off to sleep but he was fine.  The great thing was we were in the sunshine and that goes a long way to reducing lag.

So the next stop was Universal Studios.  It was really quiet which is bad for them but perfect for us.  Levi had really open run at the playgrounds and rides and there was very little waiting in lines.  I think it would have been really hard to entertain him in a line that day.

 We found Jaws (several times) and played in water sprays.  It really was a beautiful Southern Californian day.  There was the tour on the little cars that get caught in an earthquake and get whacked around by King Kong.  We saw the plane crash from War of the Worlds and other things that made it interesting for me as well as Levi, who loved the bells and whistles.

 It was a good time to just chill out and let Levi get to know Robert again without lots of other people vying for his attention.  I knew that it would be another almost week of just the four of us together, so it would give Levi and Robert a good grounding again.

We ended that day by going to Mimi and Robert's place (Ken's brother and Sister-in-law).  They were great.  We carried in a sleeping child and they just showed me to a bed that we could put him.  It is great staying at houses where they have children themselves.  A sleeping child is just universal.  Put him to bed!