San Diego - Day 5

We decided this should be our last day seeing the sites in San Diego because we found out a big storm was coming the next day.  We had planned to visit Sea World and the zoo each one more time, so we visited Sea World in the morning and the zoo in the afternoon.  It worked out just great.

On the walk to Sea World, I posed for a picture by the birds of paradise on our resort's grounds.  They were really stunning...me? not so much.

At Sea World, Lily was much less scared of the shark tunnel.  She held my hand instead of tightly gripping my leg.

And we were glad we got to meet Big Bird (and Elmo, but we'd already seen Elmo).  Again, Claire was really  scared to see these HUGE Sesame Street characters and wouldn't go anywhere near them.

After lunch, we jetted off to the zoo to try and see everything we'd missed.  We rode the Skyfari, and aerial tram, to get to the back of the park and start our touring at the top of the hill instead of pushing the VERY heavy double stroller all the way up there.

We saw the pandas.  I've only seen pandas one other time in the zoo in Washington DC.  We happened to go while they were eating.  They peel off the hard outside layer of bamboo and eat the softer insides.  Neat to watch.

We finished off with the monkeys and apes.  The orangutans were our favorite.  This one has some admirable flexibility.

One of the orangutans really seemed to like children.  She came right up to the window and started playing with Claire and Lily.  She seemed to enjoy people watching and was slowly munching on a fist full of something, like I would eat M&M's.

Here's our girls giving the orangutan a kiss.  A small crowd gathered around and "oohed" and "ahhed" the cuteness of our girls interacting with the orangutan.  It was really neat.