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It may look like we went to Africa - but this is really the San Diego Wildlife Park.
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Giraffe
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Look at the little baby! No Sharon we cannot take him home.
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They work really hard to reproduce the living environment they would have in the wild. Of course without the periodic predator eating them ...
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There was also a petting-area.
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Then we went to the bird aviary. The girls trying to get the birds to jump on ...
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Lewis just feeding from the fence.
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Next we went to Disneyland
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The kids with Walt and Mickey.
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The kids with Mary Poppins.
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Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!
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The wicked queen! She was giving Victoria a hard time before she would pose for the picture.
I guess that's why they call her wicked.
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Of course a ride on the carousel
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The next day we went to the San Diego Zoo!
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Aren't these beautiful!
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Well, not as beautiful as these ...
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Looking comfy!
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Ming - the Giant Panda was out for dinner when we stopped by.
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Hungry?
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Next we went to Sea World ... San Diego. It was our first time at a Sea World.
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They had some really neat shows ...
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Look how wet the trainer is ...
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This is Tiny waving goodbye! You can see why they named him that!
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Of course you can't go to Sea World without seeing the big guy!
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Because it was days after the 9/11 tragedy this was right next to the beach.
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Despite the fact that it was only about 68 degrees - the kids were dying to play in the ocean!
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As usual vacations end up being really long days, making for very tired children!
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We headed to downtown San Diego and 'Old Town'. They serve some great Mexican food.
It looks like the girls are watching other people eat ...
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... but they are really watching these musicians.
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Since we were that close to Mexico, we decided to drop down south of the border - just to say we did it.
However, that turned out to be a long excursion. Getting into Mexico was pretty easy, getting back out was a 90 minute ordeal - probably because of 9/11.
Here are street 'vendors' walking along the cars pedalling their wares.
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Next we went to the new 'California Adventure' theme park (by Disney) right next to Disneyland.
Because of 9/11 they went through all our bags.
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The GRR (Grizzly River Run) whitewater raft adventure was pretty cool (and wet)
We were done with the whole park by about 2pm - it was kinda small!
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We found this climb, swing, jump area - we finished up the day here.
The kids must have ridden this thing about 10 times each!
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