I briefly wrote about Sunday night when we arrived, which was our anniversary. On Monday morning Ken, Emma and I all got ready and we went and had a wonderful breakfast with Lawrence, Yeni, Montse and Tony. They are such a fun family and we are so grateful to be able to call them our family!
After our delicious, gourmet breakfast, we were on our way to one of the many parks we visited while in sunny, southern California.
Monday was our day at Wild Animal Park; it was so neat! They have so many different animals to see. We saw zebras, California condors, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, dik-diks, dinosaurs, gorillas and so many other an
imals! It was an absolutely amazing day.
One of the highlights that day was taking all the kids on their first ever carousel ride. This picture is a little deceiving, Emma doesn't look completely thrilled to be on the ride, but once it got started she LOVED it!
At the park, they have an exhibit called "Dinosaur Mountain". They've created animatronic dinosaurs that move, growl and even spit (thankfully, not all of them spit!). They have areas where you can touch what a dinosaur's skin might have felt like, an area where you can move the dinosaur and each one has a stamp, so you can be sure you've see all the dinosaurs before you leave. It was fun.
Emma had fallen asleep in her stroller, so I stayed with her while Ken took the boys into the petting zoo. Here they are with some sort of African plains animal. I just keep thinking what a cool opportunity this was - not all kids, or adults, get to have these types of experiences...
