San Diego in October!

My friend Jared lives in San Diego and I decided to pay him another visit. My college roommate Shelli flew out the same day from Chicago. We had SO much fun. The first day we went kayaking in La Jolla. We saw leopard sharks, clown fish, and a seal that swam right up to our kayaks! He was very cute. Didn't capture any pics of the kayaking, since we were in the ocean and it would have ruined my camera (duh).

Me, Jared, Shelli... elephant in background!

I'm a giraffe!

The real giraffes.

Shelli and I on the Skyfari.

Shelli and the Harpy Eagle reunite! She did a report on the bird in 2nd grade.

These are "Needle-Nosed Zipper-Tooth Crocodiles"

A sinister looking alligator.

This monkey on the left farted in the other monkey's face! The other monkey hit him and chased him up a tree. It was pretty funny.

The Galapagos Tortoises were very slow.

The pandas are my favorite.

This was an African Vulture.

This is called a "Secretary Bird." I wonder what his wpm is.

Is he good at shorthand? How well does he take messages?

Bird of Paradise flower.

Hibiscus.
The Wild Animal Park was amazing! Look at this view!

I guess the park people thought it would be festive to put pumpkins in random places throughout the park. This vulture seemed to like it.

This is an African elephant.

This is some cat from Africa. This lady had it on a leash and was bobbing a

tennis ball on a string in front of it.

The flamingos were stinky at the Wild Animal Park. The white rhinos are extremely endangered. There are less than 10 remaining in the world and 2 of them are here in the Wild Animal Park.

They are breeding them there to prevent extinction.

Male lion on a jeep.

We could have paid $35 each to go in this truck and feed the giraffes. If only I could pull $35 out of my... nevermind. I'm too cheap.

The lioness and cubs.
Also fans of the pumpkins.

Chillin' in the aviary.

Hey, it's my brother, Ike! Just kidding!

Me at the flamingo hangout.

We went to this place called "Hash a-Go-Go" in Hillcrest. It had the best breakfast food and the biggest portions! It was hilarious when we looked at the menu and saw that they had a section of "Indiana Favorites" and on was named "The Kokomo" which was a hash dish of potato, egg, green pepper, ham, bacon and sausage. It's a small world, huh?

I ordered this pancake. Look how huge it is! It was so good, even though I couldn't finish it. It's called "Banana & Brown Sugar Flap Jack."

We went to the top of Mt. Soledad after kayaking. This is the view of the ocean by the city.

Shelli was so excited about the view.

This is the view of La Jolla and the beach where we went kayaking.

Well, it was a fun trip. I am glad I had one last fling with sexy warm weather before Old Man winter takes my will to live. The end.