Flashback Friday...Cute kids and Summer fun.

This is one of my favorite pics of all time. For the record, I am an absolute sucker for a tourist-trap photo-op. I fall for them every time. Those amusement park ride candid shots? Unless something is really wrong with them...I have to have them. Get your pic taken with the pony? Gotta have it.

This was the Del Mar Fair, circa 2000. It was just me and the kids that day, and when I saw this parrot booth, I just had to seize the opportunity. The older boys were ecstatic, Coree would smile for anything anyway...but Jake? Luckily he snapped the picture just before Jake dissolved into sobs. Don't know which he hated more...the crown on his head or being forced to sit next to something with such huge talons.