Monday, June 15, 2009

Wild Animal Park

Our familyLucky boy getting to ride around
The kids weren't the biggest fans of the areas that had birds because those parts smelled really bad
Ashten, AJ, Armand, Amie, and Ayden at the Wild Animal Park My boys
Pretending to be a dinosaur hatching from this egg
Ayden and Ashten
Isn't the park beautiful. That balloon is something you can pay to go up, so you can see the whole park from the sky.
Checking out the birds and antelope
Ayden loved looking through the telescopes, I think we stopped at every single one Ayden and Anderson feeding the ducks
This is one of the 'animal encounters' we stopped and watched. Look how high that cat can jump!
The kids were fascinated by the fact that someone got their car stuck here.
AJ was loving the splash park here. The weather was perfect. I think Armand and I were both wishing we were kids so we could run through the park and cool off. Ayden loved it too, Ashten was the only one who wanted to stay dry.
The elephants were great! Right next to their area there was a camp set up where you could pay to stay the night and sleep right next to them.
My monkey
He looks so natural there
We woke up late, and I had to take a final this morning, so we were off to a later start. We go some breakfast and headed out. Since we bought the 5 day 3 park pass yesterday, we decided that the Wild Animal Park would be fun and thought we might be able to get through the whole thing in the amount of time we had. We were wrong we couldn't make it through it. The park is 1800 acres. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wap/wap_map.html <--This is the map I was trying to post the actual map here, but I couldn't figure it out. Anyway, it is an amazing place. They have so many different animals. The kids loved it, but at this point it was so hot and we had been walking so much and staying up so late, that we tried to take it easy and not make it a priority to see every single animal. The park closes fairly early, so we went to dinner afterwards, and then decided to go back to Sea World for the night time Shamu show. Can you tell we really loved it!

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