[singlepic id=69 w=320 h=240 float=left]It was like a summer day with 80F in Santa Monica, but you can feel it’s the autumn from the cooler morning. We drove to a farm in Thousand Oaks, called underwood farm for their October harvest festival.

The festival area was not so huge and I felt it’s more for the kids. We walked around and saw some animals, such as goats, Turkey and even Alpacas. Several wagon cars loaded many children and adults going circles in the crowded farm. The pumpkin field and sunflowers decorated the place nicely.

Since it’s a festival we had some burgers and roasted corns, also tacos at the food stands at the festival area. At last, we went through the big pumpkin filed and finally chose 4 of them out of thousands. One huge orange pumpkin costed only $10. And 3 smaller ones with pale color and flat shaped were around $5 each. We went back with a great satisfaction.

Chumash trail is at the far end of Malibu, next to La Jolla Valley. This trail is said one of the oldest trail, which was used by native americans, the Chumash, from 7000 years ago.

We soon found out that it was a very steep trail. It has 1000ft escalation within 1 mile. Imaging that the Chumash people were climbing here up and down everyday between their little village and the ocean, and sometimes had to carry the food they found, we had to agree that they must be good hikers.

The downhill was not so easy for our tired legs. It was a short but great work out.