Sandy Eggo - Part III - Day 2: The San Diego Zoo

Welcome to the San Diego Zoo

Our adventure in San Diego continued on Saturday with a trip to the San Diego Zoo. We were to meet up with Rachel's parents at the zoo. We initially agreed to meet up at 10 but we all slept in and didn't up meeting up with them at the Zoo till 12. As soon as we got there the rain started up again like the day before. Rachel's mom arrived a little after we did. She came first because Rachel's dad had some to some stuff at the AREMA convention which is why they were in San Diego. We headed for the reptile exhibit because it was indoors.  It was really cool. They had all kinds of snakes and lizard. The first thing we saw was this big lizard:



Big Lizard

 I don't remember the exact name of the lizard but it was really cool. I had never seen such a large lizard in my life before. It was a little surreal like seeing a dinosaur or something. After that we got a call that Johnny was entering the park and waited near the entrance for him to come in. As soon as we met up with him we decided it was time to get some lunch. I got some carne asada fries except there was very little "carne" in the fries but they were still good. After we ate we went to see the monkeys. The very first one we saw was in a very compromising position. I might have gotten in trouble for saying the d-word when I pointed at him. That was however topped by Rachel's dad when he said "That's a big boner he's got!"

Rafiki

Sorry no picture of the boner monkey.....

After that we saw the pandas. They were very strict about not making too much noise or disturbing the pandas. During the whole time, there was a zoo worker talking and giving information and facts about the bears which was quite loud becuase she was on a PA! Which I thought was funny.





After that we went to the Arctic area to see the polar bears. Apparently they had arctic foxes and other arctic animals but we didn't think to check behind the polar bear exhibit so we didn't see them. I did however see a polar bear that was pacing back and forth in the exhibit which looked like he was dancing and took this video of him:



  

After the dance party, we then headed to the Elephant exhibit. 

He looks like he's hiding...

This cardboard cutout was along the trail in Elephant Odyssey exhibit.



Dr. Rachel

It started to rain again shortly after we got into the exhibit which was pretty lame. Rachel's parents had decided they had enough of the rain and decided to leave. Rachel and I however were not ready to go. I still wanted to see the chimps, bonobos and gorillas. We had gone the wrong way through the monkey area when we first got there and missed seeing them.



Big Gorilla



The gorilla was really awesome he was very brave and came up right to the glass. Unfortunately, for some reason they didn't have any chimps or bonobos in the exhibit, they're enclosure was empty. I don't know where they went there was no sign or explanation as to where they were.

After we saw the gorillas we went to see the cats. We couldn't see the tiger really except for his tail which  hanging off a ledge in the upper part of his enclosure where he sleeping. They also had these other cats which were really cute. One of them seemed to really enjoy my company.





We were having an depth discussion about "paw"lotics.



After the zoo we went back to the hotel to rest for a little bit. My friend had told me about this place called Phil's BBQ which was supposedly really good and was right across the street from where we were staying. We tried going there but there was a huge line wrapped around the building like people were in line to get tickets to Metallica or something. We decided against going there and went to another place that is one of my favorite Mexican restaurant/takeout places, Sombreros.







Happy to be at Sombreros



After that we went to get an ice cream treat at Cold Stone and went to Mission Beach, another one of my favorite places in San Diego complete with a roller coaster practically right on the beach. We had a nice time just relaxing there and eating our ice cream. The wind was blowing really hard and it was very cold so we didn't end up staying there too long. We headed back to the hotel and called it a night after that. It had been a long day and went to be bed to prepare for our final day in San Diego.