San Diego Zoo

Wednesday morning we awoke to clear skies , sunshine, and bright hopes for a warm day at the zoo! Didn't quite turn out to be a warm day but we had lots of fun and saw lots of animals (but thankfully we didn't get rained on!). We had heard reports that we would be doing lots of walking at the San Diego Zoo because there were alot of hills...those reports were correct! As soon as we arrived at the zoo we rode on the top of a double decker bus to give us a good idea of what animals were at the zoo...the kids really enjoyed riding up so high on the bus! Then we began to do some walking to see pandas, gorillas, giraffes, lots of exotic birds, crocodiles, bears, lots of horned and hoofed animals from Africa and Asia, monkeys, meerkats, and so many more! Each day we packed our own sandwiches for lunch so we ate our lunch at the "Tree House" and then began walking again. I think probably the favorite part of the day was when we ended with riding back and forth on the Skyfari Aerial Tram...our tickets were for unlimited use, so we used it well! From the vantage point of the tram you could see overtop the whole zoo and get a bird's eye view of many of the animals. We saw probably more action from the animals overtop than we did in all our hiking around the zoo! Once again we had some very tired kids, but we had alot of fun and learned so much!