What I Did With My Summer Vacation.
The first day of my summer vacation, I got up. I went downtown to look for a job. I hung out in front of the drug store.
The second day of my summer vaction, I got up. I went downtown to look
Okay, so that's not quite true. We went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Disneyland, California Adventure, and SeaWorld. And visited some friends on the way there. Won't bore you with too many pics of the kids/family because I know how much some of you are haters of that sort of thing
I sifted through almost 2gb of pics and pulled out some of the good ones. The rest, there's lots of kids, family stuff and some blurry ones 
The obligatory kid pics: took these when we stopped at our friends' house in Bakersfield. Spent the night with 'em, had a bbq, had a great time catching up. And we watched the Baja 1000 in hi-def too
Rebekah:
Kassie:
Jocelyn:
From Bakersfield, we journeyed on down to Oceanside to stay with my brother-in-law and his semi-retarded brood. Always an adventure. However, he lives about half an hour away from the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which to me, is easily one of the coolest places ever. They have hundreds of acres and animals roaming all over the place.
A bird (heron of some sort I think):
Part of the park is a valley where they let the animals roam free- there's a train ride around it that ends up taking about an hour to complete. Excellent place for pics.
Can't remember what these things were, but they looked like the character Tim Curry played in Legend:
There's more rhino's there than I've ever seen in any one place- this guy was just wandering around:
Don't remember what these were, but I remember they lived in swamps somewhere. You can see in the background how big this place is- the base of the hill is where the park goes to:
Took a couple pictures just for fly:
There's also a lot to see inside the park. They have little shows hourly with animals, you can feed giraffes, there's a petting area with some deer, birdhouses, and the list goes on. One of the shows we watched was with some nifty little African cat that hunts birds. Again, can't remember the name of it, but that little guy could jump 5ft in the air with ease.
A giraffe:
As you walk through the place, there's all kinds of flowers and plants lining the pathways, many from Africa and Asia, all very nice to look at. I took more than this, but I liked this one the best:
In the birdhouse, I took my favorite picture of the whole trip:
And the bird facing away from the camera reminded me of someone that posts here.........
After the Wild Animal Park, we headed back up to Anaheim and Disneyland. They've really gone all out with the 50th Anniversary thing. I have to say, the fireworks display is mighty impressive though. We were there for the three full days, and the longest we ever waited to ride on anything was half an hour. Needless to say, we rode a lot of rides Not going to bore you with the pictures of the kids with the characters, the parades, etc; I did take a picture of the new castle, the fireworks, and there's a pic of me and the family in front of the waterfall at California Adventure:
The new castle (at dusk, right before the fireworks)
A few pics from the fireworks display:
Me with the family:
Next day, SeaWorld. Maybe it's just me, but it's really not as fun as it used to be... yeah, you can feed the seals and the dolphins, watch Shamu and all that other crap. Just kinda bored me this time. Here's a few pics though.
Big polar bear:
Picture from the dolphin show:
Couple pics from the killer whale show:
One of the last things we did was go to the beach..... wasn't that nice of a day, so I didn't take too many pictures. About the only interesting thing was this little whatever it is that I saw:
And with that, I'm done.
The first day of my summer vacation, I got up. I went downtown to look for a job. I hung out in front of the drug store.
The second day of my summer vaction, I got up. I went downtown to look
Okay, so that's not quite true. We went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Disneyland, California Adventure, and SeaWorld. And visited some friends on the way there. Won't bore you with too many pics of the kids/family because I know how much some of you are haters of that sort of thing
I sifted through almost 2gb of pics and pulled out some of the good ones. The rest, there's lots of kids, family stuff and some blurry ones The obligatory kid pics: took these when we stopped at our friends' house in Bakersfield. Spent the night with 'em, had a bbq, had a great time catching up. And we watched the Baja 1000 in hi-def too
Rebekah:
Kassie:
Jocelyn:
From Bakersfield, we journeyed on down to Oceanside to stay with my brother-in-law and his semi-retarded brood. Always an adventure. However, he lives about half an hour away from the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which to me, is easily one of the coolest places ever. They have hundreds of acres and animals roaming all over the place.
A bird (heron of some sort I think):
Part of the park is a valley where they let the animals roam free- there's a train ride around it that ends up taking about an hour to complete. Excellent place for pics.
Can't remember what these things were, but they looked like the character Tim Curry played in Legend:
There's more rhino's there than I've ever seen in any one place- this guy was just wandering around:
Don't remember what these were, but I remember they lived in swamps somewhere. You can see in the background how big this place is- the base of the hill is where the park goes to:
Took a couple pictures just for fly:
There's also a lot to see inside the park. They have little shows hourly with animals, you can feed giraffes, there's a petting area with some deer, birdhouses, and the list goes on. One of the shows we watched was with some nifty little African cat that hunts birds. Again, can't remember the name of it, but that little guy could jump 5ft in the air with ease.
A giraffe:
As you walk through the place, there's all kinds of flowers and plants lining the pathways, many from Africa and Asia, all very nice to look at. I took more than this, but I liked this one the best:
In the birdhouse, I took my favorite picture of the whole trip:
And the bird facing away from the camera reminded me of someone that posts here.........
After the Wild Animal Park, we headed back up to Anaheim and Disneyland. They've really gone all out with the 50th Anniversary thing. I have to say, the fireworks display is mighty impressive though. We were there for the three full days, and the longest we ever waited to ride on anything was half an hour. Needless to say, we rode a lot of rides
Not going to bore you with the pictures of the kids with the characters, the parades, etc; I did take a picture of the new castle, the fireworks, and there's a pic of me and the family in front of the waterfall at California Adventure:The new castle (at dusk, right before the fireworks)
A few pics from the fireworks display:
Me with the family:
Next day, SeaWorld. Maybe it's just me, but it's really not as fun as it used to be... yeah, you can feed the seals and the dolphins, watch Shamu and all that other crap. Just kinda bored me this time. Here's a few pics though.
Big polar bear:
Picture from the dolphin show:
Couple pics from the killer whale show:
One of the last things we did was go to the beach..... wasn't that nice of a day, so I didn't take too many pictures. About the only interesting thing was this little whatever it is that I saw:
And with that, I'm done.
