Pre-Flight Walk In the Park

Amber had the great idea (and the persistence) to get us all to Irvine Park at some stage while we were together... so finally on the day we left we made it! Both Tony & I agree that this was a great way to 'end' such a busy trip... we got to experience something new in a relaxed setting with our family... yep - I'd recommend this over frantically finishing the shopping/packing anyday!

Grandpa & Hunter were looking for turtles in the pond.

We had a tasty picnic (thanks, Danny & Pearl) which we thought to throw together just as we were leaving the house... good thing we did - there weren't many good options there!

After lunch it was on to the next logical activity - the train ride!!! The wait took longer than the ride itself, but we made good use of the time. Evan's already looking bigger and stronger than when we first met him three weeks ago.

Grandpa totally spoils Hunter... he scored an engineer's cap and a train whistle... looks like we'll be having some fun dress up games back in Taipei!

Evan wasn't all that thrilled about the train ride, but Helena was giving Grandpa a good run for his money! She's a total squirmer!!!

Hunter and his engineer buddy.

Choo-choo

After the train ride we headed over to the zoo...

It may look as if there's nothing worth seeing based on this photo, but actually the zoo had California bears and even a bald eagle!!! That in itself was impressive to me for some reason! But it didn't take long to look through it all... and by that time, we were ready for some air-conditioning!!!

Amber & Jason - the happy new parents!