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Sky Watch Friday

Pacific Beach

San Diego, CA

April 2011

The Self Portrait

While in San Diego Handy Man and I were on the beach early one morning while the kids were still sleeping.  Here is what transpired...

Me:  Let's take a self portrait of "us".

HM - (looking around very puzzled) There's nowhere to set the camera.

Me:  We can do it like this...

HM: .... ok.  Can you get us both in the shot?

Me:.....

HM:  It's not a very good picture.

Me:  You have to get closer to me!! *sigh*

Don't you just love the look on HM's face?!  It says, this is the dumbest idea ever, this picture will never turnout.

Later he took a self portrait with Dancing Daughter.

I guess he learned something that morning on the beach!

Wordless Wednesday

I couldn't resist, I just had to share my pictures of the Koalas from the San Diego Zoo.  I think they are the most adorable creatures ever!

 

Old Town

We loved Old Town so much we visited it twice!

There were cool things to see in Old Town, plants, artwork, buildings, every kind of shop you can imagine and restaurants galore!

Two of the best meals we ate were at Old Town.  The first was Mexican.  This was Handy Man's burrito...

The other meal was at Crazee Burger, which has been featured on the Food Network's Diner's, Drive-ins and Dives with Guy Fieri.  Best burger ever... Not to mention the onion rings. 

That was lunch and I ended up not eating any dinner.

Here are some of the sites we saw and loved!

When we go back to San Diego we are considering staying in Old Town!

 

Sea World

We arrived at Sea World before the gates opened.  There wasn't a cloud in the sky and our extra white Seattle skin would end up getting burnt even though we all applied sun screen twice!  I'm not complaining though that sun felt wonderful!

First stop was the sea lions, then the sharks before lining up for the Dolphin Show.

 

Handy Man and Dancing Daughter opted to sit in the soak zone, while Star Wars Son and I sat elsewhere, away from the soak zone.

The dolphin show was quite a production.  In fact it kind of resembled a Cirque Du Soleil show.

It was much different than what I was expecting and very cool!

 

After lunch we went to the dolphin feeding/petting area where the line was a mile long.  We watched from the other side as other "lucky" people touched and fed the dolphin.  We could hear the dolphins "talking" which was super cool!

They always look so happy!

Then it was time to wait in line for the Shamu Show.

Again Handy Man and DD sat in the soak zone, while SWS and I opted for drier ground.

I was in complete and total awe of the magnificent Orca Whales.

How cool are they?

After the show we visited the arctic area to see the Beluga Whales (they are my favorite).

See the baby?  Soooooo cute!

Our last stop was the Journey to Atlantis ride.  Whoa!

(photo stolen from here)

Be warned if you go on this ride you will get wet!  Soaking wet.  Water inside your shoes wet!  HM and DD went on it twice.  Once was enough for me!

To say we were exhausted when we got back to the hotel would be an understatement!  We ended up ordering pizza for delivery because we were too tired to go out!

Sea World was a total blast and worth the exhaustion and sun burn!

Sing-A-Long Saturday

Dancing Daughter's school production of "Little Shop of Horrors" was FANTASTIC!  DD played an urchin called Ronette.  There were a total of seven urchins in their production!  They were all adorable.  I absolutely loved the opening...

Here are the movie urchins singing the opening song:

 

Here are a couple pictures from last night's play.

Dancing Daughter is on the left in the yellow sweater.

Sky Watch Friday

Pacific Beach

San Diego, CA

April 2011

This and That Thursday

Stream of consciousness blogging this morning...

• This day was saved for the Sea World post... Yeah, I haven't edited those pictures yet.
• The sun has been shining in Seattle, hence the reason the photos are not edited.
• Thanks to the sun garlic, radishes, spinach, lettuce and beets are breaking through the soil of my garden!
• We've installed a water feature in the front yard, it looks amazing and I will be blogging about it soon.
• Looks like Star Wars Sun got a job at the Pike Place Market.  Hopefully he will still be working there this summer during Blog Fest West.  We can go harass say "Hi" to him.  Are you planning to attend Blog Fest West?!  You really should consider it!
• Dancing Daughter had a piece of her artwork selected to be put on a banner that will be displayed in our little town.  Here's the article on the B-Town Blog.  Yes, I will be taking pictures!
• Opening night of "Little Shop of Horrors" is tonight.  Dancing Daughter plays a Ronette in her school's Drama Club production.  I'm super excited, she's super stressed.
• I got out of bed at 10:00 last night when I heard DD crying in her room above ours.  I spent 30 minutes calming her down.  She is very stressed about the play, her math class that she fears she is failing, drill tryouts, the upcoming dance show...  I'm sure the list goes on to include stress over friends and boys but we didn't get that far, I was trying to calm her down.

Why is it not Friday?

Wordless Wednesday

 

San Diego Zoo Safari Park

April 2011

San Diego Zoo Safari Park vs. The San Diego Zoo

If you go to San Diego and are trying to decided between the Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, make the trip to the Safari Park.  It's worth the 30 minute drive!

The safari park sits on 1800 acres.  This give the animals lots of room to roam around.

 

The elephants especially love it.

This little one had a great time playing with a box.

We paid a little extra to take a photo safari.  It was a splurge that was well worth it.  We had close encounters with grazing animals, rhinos and giraffe. 

A bonus to this safari was feeding the giraffes!

 

We were all pretty darn excited about this development!  The giraffes were so cool!

After our time at the Safari Park, the San Diego Zoo seemed really anti-climatic.  My advice if you want to experience both parks is to go to the Zoo first then go to the Safari Park.  You won't be able to do both in one day.  We spent all day at the Safari Park, but only a couple hours at the Zoo, that's because there were only two animals we wanted to see.

Koalas

And Pandas

We also saw Baboons having sex but none of us had the guts to photograph that event!

(I'm still editing Sea World pictures, so it will be a few days before that post hits the internet!)