Week 7

Studying up on animals for my next two days.

The 1st was at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, where there were gorillas.

Then the we got to see elephants.

Then we stopped at a playground before the Journey into Africa Tour.

This place is huge!

They have lots and lots of animals.

I finally have to make Dad put the camera down.

Checking out the parrots with Mom.

The petting area at the Wild Animal Park.

You look familiar...

I had a good day at the San Diego Wild Animal Park

It was all just a little too much fun.

The 2nd day we visited the San Diego Zoo.

There were thousands of birds.

And a couple of pandas.

We took the sky buckets from one side of the park to the other.

I got to see the elephants for a long time.

Hippos sleep a lot.

The super smart bonobos were too smart to play with me.

Gorillas up close and personal.

The even had a baby gorilla.

And lots of fish, of course.

Long-tailed macaques were all over the place!

Most of the time we just had to wait for the animals.

Except at the petting zoo.

The otters were friendly and curious.

I had enough of the zoo half-way through the last show.

So we rode the sky buckets back the car and called it a day.

You, carry me down to Black's Beach.

Look everyone, I made it to the beach all by myself.

The water was cold, so Mom helped me out.

Then Dad carried me back up again.

From Black's, to Surf, Long, and Seal - We hit every cool SoCal beach.

And finally ate lunch at Ruby's at the end of the pier at Seal Beach.

Our serious hiker faces before hiking in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

I could even do part of the Big Santa Anita Canyon Trail.

We even stopped to check out the river.

Sturtevant Falls was really beautiful. Mom said we could come back and camp when I am older.

I would have made it back, but Dad started talking about tertiary eocene sandstones something.

The flight back to Atlanta from Los Angeles was a much needed rest.