San Diego Zoo and Sea World

While we were in California we bought a 'Vacation Pass'. This passbook included tickets for Sea World and the San Diego Zoo. We were able to do both in one day.

We first visited the zoo -- which I absolutely LOVED. I have only been to the Dallas and Fort Worth zoo-- the San Diego zoo was by far the best!!!!!!!!!!! I loved the beauty of it and the space and area they provided their animals. I also loved there idea of doing everything themselves as far as using recycled material (& I am normally not a recycler fanatic). The San Diego Zoo is a gorgeous zoo with lots of hills!!!!!

After our trip to the zoo we visited Sea World. I had never visited Sea World so I was pretty excited. Sea World also had a nice layout. It was very clean and had really nice exhibits. We could have pet and fed dolphins but the line was too long. Ryan and Rick bought some fish and fed the sea lions. WOW that was COOL!! They knew you had fish to feed them and they let you know that they wanted those fish NOW. They would BARK at you and try to be the loudest because they knew they were in competition with the other lions. The greatest part of this story --which I sadly have to say that I missed- was when Ryan bought some fish to feed the sea lions. He was very careless & had the fish opened up wide for ALL to see. All of a sudden a bird knocked him in the head and grabbed (in one gulp) all of the fish- leaving only the fish bucket!!!!! Hilarious!

We also went to Elmo's World and watched the 4D Sesame Street movie. Lexi finally accepted and realized what the 3D glasses were for. She loved it. As I sat with Gia I looked over and saw Lexi grabbing for Cookies and other objects that were jetting out of the screen.

Last- the all time best part of Sea World was of course- the Shamu show! Beautiful!!!! Lexi loved it and was in amazement as she watched the whales do tricks and stunts.

On our way out I surprised the girls w a stuffed dolphin and a whale. Lexi likes to call them her 'Whalfins'!