San Diego, Day 3 - The Zoo!

Emily's stroller at the zoo. Ours broke on the flight out here.

Looking at the tiger (top, a little left of center)

Sitting on a hippo!

Pointing out the hippo's eye

Daddy Panda Bear! (male, Gao Gao)

Baby Panda climbing a tree (Zhen Zhen, 7 months old)

Mommy Panda, Bai Yun, eating bamboo

On top of a polar bear

Trying to climb up on the tall polar bear

Riding the Skyfari

Looking at the elephants

Emily didn't want to be in Daddy's arms, she wanted
to get down and climb the fence!

Up close with Janie the orangutan

Sitting with a gorilla

We had such a great time at the zoo. This was one of our favorite places to go when we lived here and we had a lot of fun taking Emily and showing it all to her. She really enjoyed it all. She loved climbing on the different animal statues that the kids play on. When we would leave each area she would ask for more climb. When we would leave an animal exhibit to go to another, she asked for more animal. When we rode the skyfari, she loved it! We got off and she wanted "more ride." We saw a person dressed as a koala bear and Emily loved patting him. Wouldn't you know, when we walked away, she wanted more! In our book, that means the trip to the zoo was most definitely a success for Emily.

The animals were really active and except for the Polar Bears, we saw all of them doing a lot of stuff. The polar bears were asleep. We hit most areas of the zoo, except for the Children's Zoo and had a lot of fun. We got Emily back for a late nap and I went to buy us a new stroller. Hopefully her high reviews of the skyfari ride and seeing the person sized koala will be good for our days at Legoland and Disney later this week.