So before I start, let me just give you a warning that Tyler took over 1400 pictures during this trip, so needless to say there will be picture overload in the next few posts. Monday morning we woke up and headed down to San Diego to go to the zoo. The weather was still unseasonably warm and we were loving it. The kids were excited to get their first glimpse of the ocean on the drive down the coast. The drive didn't take too long which was good considering the amount of time we had been in the car the previous two days. The kids were anxious to get there and were so excited to begin the FUN.
Logan has become obsessed with koala bears this last year as he latched on to one that was handed down in a box of Christmas decorations from my mom. It was one of those department store stuffed animals that they bring out a new one each Christmas to collect. So anyways, Logan had been so excited to get to see the koala bears at the zoo, that that just had to be our first stop. Lucky for us it was one of the first animals we came to. They were so fun to just sit and watch, especially when one would wake up and eat.
Here is a mommy koala bear holding tight to her baby. If you look close you can see the babies legs wrapped around the mom.
One of the next animals we came upon were the camels and if this shot doesn't scream out, come here and give me a nice juicy kiss I don't know what does.
Of course Lauren had to stop and smell the flowers!
A little while later we came upon a family of meerkat's. I over heard someone talking about how they had heard a rumor that one of the meerkat's had just had a baby an hour earlier. Sure enough, after close examination and a good pair of eyes, we spotted them. They were so cute and fun to sit and watch.
This black panther kept coming right over by the window where the kids were sitting. He would look right at them and stare them down. It was kind of spooky. Thank goodness for thick glass.
Lauren with the sleeping lions in the back ground.
I love this shot Tyler got of this giraffe with her baby, so cute.
The kids really liked going on the sky ride. It was fun looking around at all the animals from above. It was funny because on one of our times across Tyler told the kids to say hi to the other people as they passed us going the opposite direction. Lauren was too embarrassed to do it, but Logan would say hi to everyone that passed. It was just funny to see people's reactions when they are not expecting it. Some would say hi back but most just looked at us weird or ignored us. It didn't help that we were laughing the whole time either.
We were supposed to meet up with the Stubbs that morning when we got to the zoo but they were coming over from Vegas that morning and ran into some really bad traffic the whole way. They didn't end up getting there til about 3:00 that afternoon. The one thing that Hailey wanted to see more than anything, was the panda bears, so that is where we met them. The kids were so excited to finally be together.
Cute Adalyn
One of our last stops, and my favorite was the hippo's. It was so cool to watch their big bodies swimming around in the tank. The kids however had more fun climbing around on the fake hippos. They just wanted to play with each other and could have cared less about the animals at this point.
We stayed til closing time, but before we left, the kids got to go and pick out a stuffed animal to take home from the gift shop. Logan of course picked out a koala bear and Lauren picked out a Siberian tiger. Somehow though in all the 1400+ pictures we neglected to get a picture of the kids with their souvenir's, go figure. After we left the zoo we all went to Applebee's for dinner. It was nice to just sit down and relax after a long day of walking around in the hot sun. That night we went and stayed with yet another set of friends parents. My very good friend Jenn, who now lives in Texas, is from San Diego and her parents still live there and have a big empty house that they were so kind to open up for all of us to stay there. After a little bit of chit chat and catching up with her parents, Dan and Shirley, we were ready to hit the sack and get rested up for our next days adventure.
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