This President's weekend, my girl and I went to San Diego. It was a very fun trip. For Christmas, I bought a 3-for-1 pass for us to go to Seaworld, San Diego Zoo, and the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park (formerly known as the Wild Animal Park) and we decided this was going to the weekend we were going to use it. We left on Thursday night after my last class around 10pm. We were both very anxious to leave and took off as soon as I got home. We were both very hungry because we hadn't ate dinner yet so we stopped in Carlsbad to get some In-N-Out. It's not my favorite place but its good once in a while especially on a road trip like on the way to Vegas and going to the one in Barstow.
When we arrived at the hotel, it seemed a little strange... like I had been there before. It wasn't until we walked into the lobby that I realized why this was. On our 1 year anniversary, we came down to go to San Diego for the weekend and we stayed at a Holiday Inn around the same area. Then we both realized the hotel now called "The Mission Plaza" was the same hotel from that trip several years ago. We then checked in, were given the keys to the room and told where the elevator was. Our room was on the 2nd floor and we had a heavy and large suitcase so we headed toward the elevator. Apparently the lady at the front desk didn't know that the elevator was out of order. It wasn't a big deal and we went up the stairs. When we got to the room it seemed nice enough but Rachel immediately saw a problem. We had booked a room with 2 queen size beds but were instead given a room with 2 double beds. We called the front desk and they said they'd move us into another room the following day.
Friday:
We woke up and decided to get some breakfast. There was a Denny's right down the street from our hotel and just down the road from Seaworld. As we approached the restaurant there was a maintenance truck blocking the turning lane to get into the parking lot. I figured I could just go to the end of the next block and turn around. As I drove ahead I noticed that there was a no U-turn sign and figured I guess I just could go the next block. To make a long story short I ended up getting lost and following some road that took us way out of the way and into an area I was not familiar with. We finally made it back and had some pancakes.
After that we headed to the park. The sun was shining and looked like it was going to be a good day. When we got to front gate we had some trouble getting in with our passes and had to wait in a special line to get new passes. We finally made it inside and were greeted by this guy:
The first thing we did was to make our way to the Shamu show.
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| Hi everybody! |
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| What's Up!?! |
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| Look at me go!! |
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| Apparently I was cloned... |
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| and we can all do tricks. |
Then we saw the Sharks:
And then seemingly out of nowhere it began pouring like crazy. We rushed inside into one of the indoor exhibits and found ourselves in the aquarium:
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| What are you looking at? |
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| Pretty Colors |
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| The sea turtle |
When we got out the rain had let up and we went to see the Sea Lion and Otter show. It was fun except for some guy named "Biff" that they let onstage that was doing all this pantomiming and dancing before the show started.
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| The Clyde and Seymore Show |
After the show the rain started up again and was coming down pretty hard. We made our way to the penguin and polar bear exhibit. (There was a better polar bear at the zoo so no pictures of that yet)
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| Penguins photographed in their natural habitat... |
We also saw this guy in park during the day and couldn't resist a picture.
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| "Cow"abunga dude! |
After we saw those exhibits we decided it was time to go. I was completely drenched by the time we got back to the car because I hadn't brought an umbrella because it was so sunny when we woke up. We went back to the hotel to change out of our wet clothes. I was sad though because we didn't get to see the dolphin show but it was still fun. We rested for a while and then went out to dinner at Olive Garden (which was lovely) and then went to Target because we forgot to bring toothpaste and had to get some other necessities (including an ice cream treat). Then we came back to the hotel and chilled out before going to bed.
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