San Diego Part 1

I am so behind in blogging, so this will be a lot of pictures and less on the dialogue.

We left for San Diego Sunday Christmas Day.  The airport was not that busy.  By the time we got to our hotel we were hungry, but the restaurant wasn't open yet.  San Diego is 3 hours behind us.  Our hotel was beautiful!  The food at the restaurant at the hotel was really good. Monday we went to the San Diego Zoo.  Best zoo ever.  Tuesday we went to Sea World (not so impressed). Wednesday and Thursday we rented a car (best decision).  We visited the first mission established in San Diego, visited Old Towne, and toured the USS Midway.  We ate at some awesome restaurants, saw some beautiful scenery, and got to put our toes in the Pacific Ocean.

 And now for the pictures.  Part 1 will be pictures from the zoo.

There is some awesome vegetation at the zoo.

Interesting fact: koala bears are only awake 2 hours a day.
We were able to catch 3 or 4 of them awake.  They are really cute!

This was the funniest bird ever!  He was a rhino billed toucan.

The biggest porcupine.

There were many steep hills at the zoo.
They actually had 2 "moving sidewalks" to help you get up the hills.  Too fun!

Crazy child!

There was a big pond with so many different kinds of birds.
 I enjoyed sitting and watching all the different kinds and all the stuff they did.

Daddy did such an awesome job taking this picture.
 C called this "the bird with the Sith eyes."  You'd have to be a Star Wars fan to understand that.

There were 2 pandas at the zoo.
But the way the exhibit was set up, we really didn't get to see them all that well.  

Awesome waterfall.

Our little family.

We rode the sky coaster up over the zoo.  It was a neat perspective.

Such interesting plants!

So pretty!

Picking the statue's nose.

Examining his find.  Crazy child.