San Diego Padres Baseball Game

While we were in San Diego we decided to watch a baseball game. The San Diego Padres played the Los Angeles Angels. It was cold!! We drank hot chocolate and tried to stay warm!!

The stadium was really nice. It is right in downtown San Diego. Driving by, you might miss it. It looks like any other building!

Of course we brought Flat Stanley! I think he enjoyed his first baseball game. The guy sitting beside us had just finished with a Flat Stanley for his niece! This little guy is famous!!

San Diego Zoo

We couldn't visit San Diego and miss out on the world's best zoo! We spent and entire day exploring the zoo. They have so many intersting animals! They have the biggest collection of animals that are endangered and extinct in the wild than any other zoo I have ever been too. We really had a great time at the zoo.

Me and Flat Stanley outside of the zoo!

Michael and Flat Stanley on the aerial tram

One of the giant Panda bears. San Diego has the largest collection of giant Panda Bears in the United States. They have four of them. The giant Pandas are endangered. There are only 27 that live outside of China!!

I think the Polar bears were our favorite! They were so cute and cuddly! These cute little fellows weigh about 1500 pounds. Yikes! That is a big bear! Polar bears are a threatened species. San Diego zoo's Polar Bear Plunge is one of the world's largest Polar bear exhibits.

This playful Polar bear kept swimming out of the water, grabbing carrots, then swimming back to the glass and sitting up to eat his carrot! He was so funny!!

After he was full of carrots he grabbed a palm branch and rolled around on it for a long time to dry off

It was so funny just watching him roll around for the longest time

This gorilla kept making us laugh! He would come up to the glass and stare at all the people directly in the eyes. Sometimes he stood in the same spot, staring at the same person for several minutes before moving on to the next victim!

The cute little baby gorilla!

This is the Asiatic elephant, which is also endangered. You can tell this one apart from the African Elephant because it has smaller ears. They just put out enrichment toys for the elephant so he was playing while we were there. The container held carrots, and had only one small opening. The elephant would turn the container around until he could get the carrot out, then he would eat it. It was funny to watch, because he knew that the carrot came out of the little hole!

This funny looking thing looked like a skunk and a badger mixed together

Can you find Flat Stanley?

This peacock had such beautiful feathers!!

The koala bears slept most of the time we were there. Did you know that Koala bears sleep 18-20 hours every day?

We did catch the baby and momma Koala playing for a few minutes

This silly giraffe kept licking the pole!!

Overall I think the zoo was our favorite part of the trip! It was huge!! With over 4000 animals, I'm sure we missed a few. We will definitely go back some day!

San Diego

Michael had the opportunity to travel to Sand Diego for a work event, so we went out a few days ahead of time and had a mini vacation. We still had Flat Stanley, so he got to come with us! I can tell you one thing, that little flat man has had alot more fun on his vacation than I ever had!!

Flat Stanley got to go on his first airplane ride.

Our self portrait walking along the Coronado Island sidewalk

Flat Stanley at the beach

Of course we had to take pictures of the purple and yellow flowers!!

My shoes were filled with sand!!

Hotel del Coronado. It was built in 1888!

the cute little balcony in our hotel room

These flowers were everywhere!!

Birds of Paradise!

The hot tub at the hotel

I think we are getting old. The first night in San Diego we laid down to take a nap at five o'clock and slept all night!! We had alot of fun, and got alot of rest on our vacation!

Flat Stanley and the Aquarium

My cousin, Hadleigh sent me her Flat Stanley project a couple of weeks ago. She decided to send it to me because I live close to the zoo, and she wanted him to go visit the zoo. For those of you who don't know Flat Stanley, he is a character in a children's book who gets flattened when a bulliten board falls on him. He realizes he can mail himself to his friends in an envelope and see the world. Our assignment was to take Flat Stanley and show him our city. It was a cold, rainy weekend so instead of the zoo we took Flat Stanley to the Dallas Aquarium

Michael made sure to point out all the good stuff to Flat Stanley!

I love this waterfall in the aquarium, and so did Flat Stanley!

Just a cute little penguin!

Several people we passed noticed Flat Stanley and made comments!

We felt a little silly at first, but we actually had alot of fun with Flat Stanley! Thanks Hadleigh!!