4th of July in Santa Barbara

Right now, everything for us is the "last hoorah" before babies. So for our last 4th of July as just the 2 of us we went for the weekend to Santa Barbara. It's a great place to go for the holiday because they do a cute parade downtown and amazing fireworks on the beach. As you will see from the pictures, the main goal of this trip was to keep me out of the sun. Since being pregnant, I instantly get sick with any amount of time in the sun. So this lead us to a giant sun hat, umbrellas and long sleeve jackets. But I felt great the whole time and we had a wonderful weekend!


Our first stop was the Zoo where Shawn asked just about every mom we saw with a stroller what they did and didn't like about the particular stroller they had. He has been on a mission lately to figure out the best one for us.








Next we went to the beach where Shawn set up a giant umbrella for me to sit under.



Later that night we had a great clam chowder dinner in the marina.




The next day we went to the big parade and afterwards some of the parade participants let us take photos.





Towards the end of the day we rented this "bike". It worked out perfect since Shawn could do most of the peddling and I was still in the shade.