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.

Sea World!

I hadn't been to Sea World since I was 12. It sure has changed a lot! We had a great time.

Shamu

A Walrus

The Starfish Pond

Uncle Ryan helping Ashlyn get a starfish

Ashlyn Holding a Starfish. She thought that was pretty cool.

Waiting for the show to start...

We had so much fun going to the different shows and seeing all of the different animals.

By the afternoon, the majority of the group left to go back to the house leaving Cole, Ashlyn and me to explore the rest of the park. I'm glad we stayed, we had so much fun going to the shows and playing in the Sesame Street Playland.

We ended our night with another show of the Shamu Family Whales.

Day 4 of San Diego

Ok so I promised I would continue to blog about our trip to San Diego last month. The 4th day we were there, we went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It is HUGE!! 1800 acres with 900 of it developed. If you walk the whole park (which we did) it is over 3.5 miles. So here are some of my favorite pictures from the day. I know someone has a picture of all of us arriving at the park, but no one has bothered to share their pictures yet (except for me of course)!

Here is Timone the meerkatThis is Ashlyn and a little girl she decided to make friends with for all of 30 seconds, then it was time for us to move on.
Here is a view of part of the park. They have set it up as a natural habitat for the animals.


Ashlyn waiting in line for the African Safari Train

My family on the train. Some people are blocked by poles.

Ostrich Eggs. Apparently Ostriches aren't too concerned about predators eating their young.

The Rinos

The Giraffes. While we were on our tour the animals were spooked by a new "ride" the park had just opened. It was the mule ride and the animals saw them coming down the hill and didn't know what they were so they all started running. I've never seen a giraffe run, it was pretty cool.

Feeding the ducks. My brother is pointing to a odd looking duck. See the next picture.

I've never seen a duck like this.

This is my mom's favorite animal. No your eyes are not playing tricks on you. This is a Okapi from Africa. It has the bum of a zebra, body like a horse, and a head and tongue like a giraffe. It's the weirdest animal I've ever seen.

The lions have taken over this Range Rover

We saw this mommy duck and her 5 babies as we were eating lunch. Aren't they the cutest little fur balls you have ever seen?

Next we went to the Elephant area. It was so cool! They had about 12 elephants including 2 babies. The elephants decided to play in the water. It was fun to watch them be so active.

This is a 3 month old baby. Too Cute!!

There's a sneak peek of the Wild Animal Park. We all had a fun time.

Day 4--The evening

After the Wild Animal Park we came home to rest and swim. Part of my family went to the Padre's Baseball Game. We decided not to go because we didn't know how long it would be and how well Ashlyn would do. Instead, we went with my sister, her husband, and Paige to In-n-Out Burger and the beach.

Here is an action shot of all the employees hard at work making our burgers. Yummy!

Uncle Aaron helping Ashlyn with her stickers
Ashlyn modeling her stickers

Here is a view of the beach. Wouldn't you just love to live in that house and wake up to this view every morning? Some people are so spoiled!

Paige and Ashlyn

Chasing the waves

Our cute little family

It's the 4th of July!

Have a happy and safe 4th of July! Thank you to all of you who have served to protect our freedoms!