Gary A. Poe, Founder and Executive Director of Windows On Our Waters, shows a Sea urchin to visitors at the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, December 20, 2008. Windows-On-Our-Waters® is an environmental education program dedicated to raising the awareness of school children and the general public concerning the issues of watershed protection and preservation; motivating them and giving them the tools they need to help stop the amount of pollutants reaching our aquatic, coastal and marine ecosystems and empowering them to become active environmental stewards.

Los Pinguos,a Spanish guitars band who hail from Buenos Aires - Argentina, perform on the Third Street Promenade on Sunday, December 21, 2008.

A couple walks past the Santa Monica Nativity Scene at Palisades Park, on Tuesday , December 23, 2008. The Santa Monica Nativity Scenes is an annual display of the Christmas story which has been staged at Palisades Park since 1953. The interdenominational display stretches along Ocean Avenue from Arizona Avenue to Santa Monica Boulevard and includes 14 scenes with life-size figures depicting events surrounding Christ’s birth.

(top) Zunie, a 16 year-old Capuchin monkeys, eats cheetos at the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade on Saturday, December, 20, 2008. Zunie has been entertaining on the Third Street Promenade for the past seven years. (above) Jasmine Murillo, 8, and her sister Juliete, 6, visit with Zunie on saturday.

(left to right) Suzy Williams, Kathy Leonardo, and Catherine DeLaCasas from "The Off Their Jingle Bell Rockers" sing quirky Christmas carols at the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Sunday, December 21, 2008

Rabbi Eli Levitansky, 28, from the Chabad House,  lights the giant Menorah and gives a blessing  at the Third Street Promenade during the first night of Chanukah on Sunday , December 21, 2008. Chanukah, AKA the Festival of Lights, is a joyous celebration of the victory of the Maccabees and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. It also commemorates the miracle of the oil that burned for 8 days when there was only enough oil left in the temple for one day.

(top) Santa Monica Police Chief Timothy J. Jackman rides horseback alongside of mounted police officers (left to right) Peter Lashley, Richard Verbeckand Rob Dawson at the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, December, 20, 2008.

Santa Monica Police Chief Timothy J. Jackman (right) and Lieutenant Alex Padilla flip pancakes during the Police Activities Leagues' annual Winterlit Workshop on Saturday, December 20, 2008.