San Diego Wild Animal Park

We got up first thing (again - this time it was Brynn's alarm clock) and went to the Wild Animal Park. It was pretty foggy/overcast. We got a front row parking spot & went right in, looked at one or two animal exhibits and then took the train tour. It's an hour long, but we got to see a lot of the exhibits and animals that we wouldn't have gotten to see if we were walking.

After the train ride, we started taking the safari walk route, saw a few animals - the gorilla's, went into "south africa" part of the park, because we were going to walk our way around to the cheetah exhibit, they were feeding the cheetah at 1:30 (stopped for lunch, first, got Kiersten a "keepsake" drink w/ a cheetah lid - free refils all day long!) We got to the cheetah exhibit a little early, so we walked over to look at the giraffes. It cost $2 to feed one, but no one was there today, it was a little drizzley, and actually starting to pick up in the rain department. I went into the bathroom to feed Brynn, and could hear it pouring. When I came back out - about 20 minutes later, the rain was really coming down hard. Turns out they had cancelled the cheetah feeding - what cat wants to be out in the rain - even if it was for food?

We ran back to the front of the zoo - in the rain - stopped by to appreciate the irony of the "Austrailian Rain Forrest" and then got a rain check. Most of the animals don't like the rain and they were inside their caves & other shelter. We got a rain check and left early for Anaheim. This was kind of nice, as we were still tired and felt like we needed another few hours of nothing!