Klingenmaier's in CA: Day 5- San Diego Zoo

Tuesday we ventured south to the world famous San Diego Zoo. The weather was great- sweatshirt weather- perfect for a day walking around the zoo. The zoo wasn't crowded at all and practically all of the animals were out and active. It was really a perfect day for the zoo.

Both boys slept for the majority of the ride down and were very excited when we finally arrived. After a quick picnic lunch in the parking lot we were ready to explore the zoo! I took lots of pictures so I'm going to let the pictures and captions tell the story.

The whole gang by the Zoo entrance

Of course, one of the boys favorite exhibits was the ducks and flamingos. They could have probably watched those silly ducks all day but we figured that we can always go to the park to watch ducks, we can't go to the park to watch tigers, elephants, etc. so we moved on.

Pointing out all the sleeping flamingos standing on one wobbly leg

Watching some species of monkeys- I think we saw at least 5 or 6 different species of monkey while at the zoo. One of the highlights, for Matt at least, was watching a chimpanzee poop in his own hand and then eat it. I had to walk away - that's a bit much for my stomach these days.

This picture is a little blurry, sorry, but I had to post it anyway. The boys were far too interested in the animals to bother looking at the camera.

The Klingenmaier boys

The DeBoer boys, in their matching Calvin sweatshirts

(no, we didn't do that on purpose, it was the warmest sweatshirt Luke had with a hood and Matt was already wearing his. They are super cute though!)

The DeBoer family - rare picture with Luke actually looking toward the camera!

Checking out an interesting animal (I forgot the name).

It was like part giraffe, part zebra, part donkey.

More monkeys

Playing on the hippo statue outside the hippo's tank.

They probably would've stayed there for hours playing if we let them.

I think Luke was watching more monkeys in this picture, but I can't remember exactly what animal it was. Regardless, he was awfully excited and animated!

Watching the polar bears swim around and reach for berries

This mountain lion was right next to the wall of his cage, looking at the spectators, growling, and pacing back and forth. It was a little creepy but pretty cool at the same time. We were just glad that there was a fenced wall between us and the lion. Coming across that sucker in the wild would be terrifying!

Around 3pm the clouds rolled in and the weather cooled off a bit. Time to bust out the blankets for added warmth.

We decided Micah bared a strong resemblance to Mother Teresa... what do you think?

While walking back to the exit we got to see some trainers transporting two of the animals- an Arctic Fox and a New Guinea Singing Dog. It was crazy to see them on leashes walking through the park. At first I thought nothing of it, like they were just regular dogs. I'm sure had it been a lion or tiger walking through the zoo on a leash it would have caught my attention earlier.

Both boys fell asleep once we were on the freeway home and slept until we were ready to stop for dinner. We had a delicious and healthy dinner of fat, I mean fast food, and headed home. We were all ready to hit the hay by the time we got back to the house. Today we are mostly rested and ready for whatever adventures this day has in store for us. Stay tuned...