The Santiago Art District Art Walk with kids

This is one of those things we said we would do with our kids...before we had kids.

Before we had to scrape our son off the ceiling of an upscale restaurant after appeasing him with Coke all night. Before we tried carrying a sleeping seven-year-old up the stairs after a late night out. Before we realized how incredibly difficult it was going to be to explain the concept of irony to a child.

We thought we would be taking our chubby babies to art shows swaddled in Bjorns, but, sadly, this was our first one.

We hauled them off to The Santiago Art District's Art Walk in Santa Ana on Saturday night. We met Chris (Dharma Bum) and his wife Michele there to walk the open studios. Chris served as our censor for the evening. Venturing ahead of us to make sure we wouldn't stumble upon something more than a PG-13 rating.

Only once did he come out of a back room, shaking his head from across the studio, "No, don't go in the back, naked ladies in there." He was a real champ for doing such treacherous scouting for us--Thanks, Chris.

Ben did get a little bored, so I gave him my Flip video camera so he could do some shooting himself. I have added a little of his "work" in the "Four-year-old cam" sequences.

He had the most fun running around in the loft of one of the artists. We were lucky enough to get a tour of the living space.

Enjoy. Hope you like Blondie...and dogs...two of my favorite things.

The Santiago Art District's Art Walk...with kids from Suzanne Broughton on Vimeo.

Comments

[nat]

That four-year old is such a boy. Just HAS to touch the water. Nice video. I might try to make it down there next month. Thanks for the heads-up.
PS you need to get a better video camera. Maybe we can all start a pool or something.

[lisa mertins]

excellent video suzanne! i want to go next month too :)

[Doug l.]

Sounds like fun. I won't need the use of Chris though. I'm old enough to see naked ladies.
Saw you in the paper today. Good article.

[Suz]

Very cute. I love Blondie and Dogs too. So great the band was able to get together to play some background music just for your awesome video.
The four year old cam, made me a bit dizzy. But that is ok, I survived the 80's, and I shall survive the dizziness now too.
Thanks for sharing.
ps. the cat is still scary. :)

[Ms. Brain Bunnies]

I'm missing something here. Where is this place?

[Ms. Brain Bunnies]

Forget my first comment. My brain wasn't turned on yet. Anyway, this looks like a fab place to explore.

[Carrie Horton]

Oh, I wanted to come too, it looks like great fun. The is right across the street from Jay's office, just right here....

[Alias Liz Jones]

Great video! I enoyed it. Thanks for sharing.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Thanks for taking the time to take the walk in. We love having you, come again next month. www.santiagoartdistrict.com

[Tori]

I thank you hbulmy for sharing your wisdom JJWY