Leroy drove down early this morning and woke our butts up around 7am. We were dressed and ready to leave by 8am. First stop: San Diego Zoo. Adam insisted that it's not just another zoo. I believed him. So to the zoo we went.
I have to admit, it was tons of fun. As always, I was disturbed by the big cats sequestered in poor imitations of their "native habitat", one one-hundredth of the size of their natural home range. Having said that, they sure were purty. Plus, Adam paid for my entrance, so I wasn't allowed to bitch about stuff. My favorite spots, of course, involved the birds--tropical birds, raptors, ducks, you name it. I took a zillion shots of ducks because they will sit there forever and pose for you, not to mention the fact that the fuzzy little chickies are too cute to pass up. I also liked the Old World and New World monkeys, and the apes. When I mentioned to Leroy and Adam that Bonobo chimps, our most closely related relatives in nature, commonly practice homosexual sex (usually as a form of "makeup sex" after an argument), they immediately stopped walking next to each other and made crude jokes about armpit juice and penis size the rest of the day. Sigh, men.
After the zoo, we went to Coronado, because it's wealthy and ritzy and cool. Tons of really nice houses that we gawked at for a while. We went onto the Navy base for lunch, then back to the hotel for a little rest. Leroy had to be on his way, so he took off, but Adam and I decided to check out the beach. After fighting traffic, we finally made it to the beach, where we once again saw our little plover friends, played in the waves, and took the obligatory evening-sunset-over-the-ocean pix. A great day. I make like a baby, and head out of here, back to Lansing tomorrow morning. A little sad about that, but I'm ready to see my Kika again; vacations just aren't 100% fun when my babies aren't with me.
Auf wiedersehen, San Diego. Es war schoen.
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