For our last venture in the San Diego area, we drove up to Escondido to the Wild Animal Park.
By this point, we were all pretty tired so we walked to the Africa Safari tram. That's more or less all we did on this day...
The Safari Park is a little less "developed" than the San Diego Zoo. We were hoping to see the lions, but the lion exhibit (as well as about half the park) was undergoing renovations.
We did see giraffes, rhinoceroses, and a variety of gazelles, antelopes, and a baby zebra that was only 3 days old. The kids really liked the gibbons and other monkey exhibits. After the tram ride and a short snack, my dad was ready to go to his uncle's house for a family dinner with some cousins we've never met. We did take our time on the walk out, though.
On the way out, we stopped to feed the lorikeets. You pay $3 for a tiny little ketchup cup sized container of chilled nectar... which struck me as a bit high, but heck, I'd already paid $6 for a cup of soda so I decided to pay the $6 so each kid could go into the aviary and see what the big deal was. I'm glad I did.
Both kids said this was the highlight of their day, and watching them have that experience was well worth the money spent.
It didn't surprise me that a bunch of birds went straight to my son, but I was surprised that a few were willing to brave my toddler's excitement to get some grubbage.
We also hit the petting zoo area. Always good for the kids to get hands on. My son pretends to be too old for this sort of thing, but really, he loves animals. Then again, I'm also glad to have the "excuse" of watching the kids to go into all these petting zoos. :)
I can't wait to take them to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, where you can pet pygmy kangaroos.
This about sums up how we felt about our trip by the end of our day...
San Diego is beautiful and fun, but there's no place like home.
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