San Diego- Part Two

Day Two- The San Diego Zoo
I have wanted to go to the San Diego Zoo for YEARS!!  When the Bucks first invited us on this trip, I felt like a little kid who was about to see Disney World for the first time.  It didn't disappoint. 

The zoo is huge and has all kinds of super neat features.  We started off by taking a bus tour of the zoo.  Cayden loved the two-story bus.  Instead of adoring the cool animals we pointed out to him, he waved to all of the people walking below us.  We tried several times to show him the bears, elephants, lions, etc... but he continued to wave at the people. I don't think we really caught his attention until we were able to actually feed the giraffe!  That was awesome (for me)!   I think he was kind of freaked out by that huge purple tongue! 

Thomas & Cayden

The boys were SO good!!!

We stopped for lunch at the zoo and received a call from my dad saying that someone had found my phone and called him because he was labeled as "dad" in my phone book.  Praise the Lord!  She found it under the bench where we suspected Cayden left it and took it to her house. We called her and made arrangements to pick my phone up. What a blessing! (Come to find out... when we got home, we had a message on our home phone from a man who also found my phone and called our house!  He said he was leaving it there in case we returned to look for it.  Someone also called my mom's cell phone.  I'm telling you... those people were SO nice!!)

The zoo day was pretty smooth until Cayden face-planted during lunch because he was jumping off of a curb.  Matt and I had just discussed the danger involved (after watching Thomas fall and hurt himself), but Matt felt that it was important that he learn how to jump and assured me that boys need to do things that are a little dangerous. Moments later, he fell head first and to this moment- still has a bruise on his forehead.  It actually wasn't as bad of a knot as I first thought it would be.  Sadly, he has had worse, but you just hate it when they hit their heads!  That was a major bummer as well.

Minutes later (and I literally mean 5 minutes later)...I lost my wallet at a vendor's stand.  That's Major Bummer # who knows.  I lost count!
Fortunately, the good Lord was watching over me and it was still there when we went back to look for it. 
By this time, Matt was removing all valuables from my care.  It was becomming increasingly apparent that I was no longer capable of taking care of my things!  Seriously! He said I would lose my head if it wasn't attached to my body!

We rode a sky taxi across the zoo twice.  Cayden absolutely loved this.  It would have been even better if we had known it was only one-way.  We left our strollers at the entrance, so we ended up carrying our kids until we were ready to take the taxi back.  Somehow I ended up carrying Cayden while Matt carried Brinley.  What was I thinking?!?

The Bucks were in the cart ahead of us.

The zoo sadly came to an end, but it was definitely time.  We all had a great time.  The kids were fantastic, but totally exhausted by the time we left.

Check out the gorilla above Matt's right shoulder!

SO Sleepy!!!

We went back to the beach at Del Mar to get my phone and then we ended the evening at a local pizza place that was recommended to us by friends.  It was delicious.

Again, we dropped into our beds and slept like babies.  What a fun and beautiful day!