San Diego Wild Animal Park

On Monday morning, we packed up munchkin and drove down to Escondido to visit the San Diego Wild Animal Park (a mere 11 months after visiting the San Diego zoo :). It was SOOOOO worth it! The park is gorgeous and huge and amazing and very well thought out and everything was wonderful, except the food :P We started out the day on a safari style tour of the Africa area of the park (only viewable on the tour). It was so pretty and let you get right up on the animals~

Micah was not so much into the tour as he had to stay in a confined space, but he was jazzed to get out and find this lovely collection of flamingos.

Micah ADORES birds, for a reason I don't fully get, and it is a blast to watch him smile and talk to them~

The weather was beautiful and fairly cool that day and we just had a great time. Here is Micah watching a funny looking, very large bird. I have at least 10 pictures of him smiling and flirting with this bird... it's lots of fun~

These were just so pretty and graceful :)

At one point, Grandmommy ran and hid (partially) from Micah. This was his response when I asked him "Where's Grandma?!". The blur is due to the fact that he was running full speed to Grandma while pointing her out for my benefit :)

A view of a small section of the park... it's huge... HUGE I SAY!!

My little inchworm :) and for those of you who think I should have chosen just 1 of these pics, I actually had more and they are all 100% adorable, so I did well to get it down to this many :P

Stone rhino.... stone. Just in case there is confusion ;-)

Lorikeets... we didn't get the nectar that makes them flock to you cause we thought it might freak Micah out (also, it is 4 bucks and we are cheap :P), but he still loved watching them~

Anyways, I HIGHLY recommend both the Wild Animal Park and the San Diego Zoo if ever you are in the area. They may seem expensive (for a zoo), but they are so well designed and kept up and have so much to offer beyond what a normal zoo would have that it is completely worth it. Go forth... visit... become a fan :)