Northern California Vacation Part Two

Continuing on our New Year's Weekend getaway, we headed to a small zoo and amusement park in San Jose.  Wonderfully, our Discovery Science Center passes have reciprocity with this location so our day was free!  The Happy Hollow Park and Zoo has a bunch of fun little kid rides.  If I lived near this place and had preschoolers, I'd be a regular!

There were swings, car rides, a dragon train...

and for the medium-sized kids, a roller coaster!

After hours riding all the rides, we took a bit of time and visited their little zoo.

There were Capybara! 

And some lemurs, a dino dig area, a leopard, and a large petting zoo.

This place was an unexpected surprise and oh, so much fun!

The other highlight of our weekend was the hotel.

Who knew staying in a hotel could be so much fun!

They rode the glass elevators, overate at the all-you-can-eat breakfast buffets (I must mention that I woke up to omelets in bed both mornings thanks to my wonderful husband!)

 and swam in the indoor pool!

And the best part was sharing the fun with friends!

We finished our vacation weekend celebrating New Years!

We watched the ball fall in Times Square at 9pm and then sent the kids to bed :)

We then played games until we were startled by fireworks outside,

oh yeah, Happy New Year 2013!!!!