It is amazing how much longer it takes to get a family of 6 kids ready and get out the door, to spend a day away from the home, with a picnic lunch included. First, you have to feed the kids (because you know they are already up before you are clearly ready to be up), then you have to pull out there clothes, round them up and get them dressed. Next, you have to help clean up from breakfast (you certainly don't want to come home to a dirty home). Don't forget to put away the fold out sofas, or you will have a mess when you walk in the door, after a very long day. Remember that your day is going to be spent outside all day, in the sunshine and upper 70 degree weather, so PLEASE don't forget to put sunscreen on all of those said kids, and don't forget yourself or you will be VERY sorry later during the night (Speaking of sunscreen, I have decided that vacations are bad for my allergies. As some of you may know, when Jeff and I were away for our romantic vacation for our 15th wedding anniversary, I had an allergic reaction to something in my dinner the first night. Well I seem to have had an allergic reaction to the HYPOALLERGENIC sunscreen that we bought. I have a very itchy and not nice looking rash on my arms, neck, and legs). Pack up lunch, while the same said kids are taking one last trip to the bathroom (it is a 35 minute drive to your destination and you don't want to have to make a pit stop). Finally, make one last trip through the house to make sure you have everything and pack up the cars and get out on the road. So, you started this whole ordeal around 7:30 am and are finally out the door at 10:30 am. Whew, and now I am ready to take a nap, while Jeff drives us the 35 minutes to get to San Diego's Wild Animal Park.
What a really fun and completely exhausting day! Did you know that the Wild Animal Zoo is over 1800 acres big? It has LOTS of great walking trails and a plethora of cool animals to see. We certainly did not get there in time to open the joint, but we were there to close it! The 6 hours we had there were not nearly enough hours to see even half of the stuff. I guess we will just have to extend our vacation another week, in order to see the rest of the Wild Animal Park, Sea World, and the San Diego Zoo (although with a day and a half there, we were able to see most of the park). Oh wait, we have a real life we have to get back to. BUMMER!!! So I will share with you each of our highlights of our tour today...
Mitzi- The 25 minute Safari Tour was quite cool. During the tour I learned that the number of white rhinos had, at one time, depleted down to less than only 10. Equal to the Safari Tour, was the GREAT quad, calf, and gluteal exercise we got walking up and down the steep hills.
Seth- Predators are color blind, so the animals are that are orange to us, are seen as green, to the predators because of the shades of grey.
Claire- REALLY loved watching all the ducks that were, almost, everywhere you turned. She also enjoyed looking at the Flamingos.
Skyzr- Giraffe's have tongues that are blue, which give them protection from the sun.
Emma- Cheetahs are naturally shy animals ("Which is very weird," thinks Emma.)
Jeff- The highlight of his day, was Little A falling fast asleep in his arms, after we got home (because she didn't sleep while we were at the park). He actually did enjoy more than that, but he is busy keeping a baby asleep.
Tucker- He really had a blast at the Safari Jungle by Fisher Price. So I guess you can figure out that it was a play area for the kids. He ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, and....
So tomorrow is our last day with Aunt Bone and we will spend part of it at the beach. I don't know which beach, but I am sure we will be able to find at least one to go to. Monday will be a day for me to be around the house, getting clothes washed, doing some shopping, and getting us ready to split southern California, because we have to be out of here at 8 am on Tuesday. The boys will head to the USS Midway though and I am ANXIOUS to hear the things that they see and learn.
Okay, I am off for today. Live well and prosper my friends,
Mitz
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