Thursday, July 9, 2009

Day 5--San Diego Zoo

Day 5: Part of us went to the San Diego Zoo. The others were too tired to go.

Wow what a place! This makes our zoo look like a homeless shelter. Paige, Cole, Linda, Ashlyn, Julie, and Kristin
This is one of the sculptures as you walk into the entrance of the Zoo. So cute!
We decided we would take the bus ride around the zoo. You see about 70% of the zoo this way. Then we were able to figure out what we wanted to see. Since we had already seen a lot of the African animals the day before, we decided to skip those areas of the zoo. It was a good thing, because in the 4 hours we were there, we wouldn't have had time to see everything!

Cole and Ashlyn on the top of the bus
The Polar Bear. He was very active, which was nice to see, because usually they are asleep.

Here is one of the two Panda Bears that they have. It was really cool to see them.
Julie, Ashlyn, and Paige on the Hippo

Meet Otis the Hippo

Peeking out to look at us
He is HUGE! This is Ashlyn "petting" the Hippo.
Just as we arrived at the Gorilla exhibit, they were taking in the cute baby gorilla. We got to see him, but didn't get to take a picture. Then they let out this big Silver back Gorilla.

My mom was telling us about the Sun Bears. They have an orange patch on their neck. My sister got a great picture, but as was stated in an earlier post, she has yet to share her pictures.

Look close...you can see the orange patch. These two cubs were SO active! They were climbing the trees and pushing each other down the branches. They were fun to watch.

A brown bear. It was great that all of the bears were awake!

As we were leaving this peacock was strutting around. The picture doesn't really do it justice. It was beautiful!

So there you have it! Our day at the San Diego Zoo. What an amazing place.

1 comments:

michelle said...

Okay your pictures are so fun and cute you are making ME want to go to San Diego!