The Beach

Since summer is officially over, according to the calendar anyway, I thought I would reminisce with some beach pictures from our vacation last month.

San Diego Wild Animal Park

It was our first visit to the Wild Animal Park. Like The San Diego Zoo, there is so much to see it's nearly impossible to do it all in one day. There was a huge array of different animals small and large. The most impressive to me were the lions. Yes, those are real! A picture fails to grasp the majesty of these animals. It is truly awe inspiring the amount of power, as well as grace, that they possess. They are truly a magnificent creation.

Disneyland!

Disneyland was a blast, as always. This year was fun because the kids were tall enough to ride everything. Last time we went, about 5 years ago, there were several rides we couldn't do. Tower of Terror and the big roller coaster at California Adventure were two such rides. This time around, those were two of the kids' favorites! We of course got tons of pics with characters. Above are just a few. Scroll down to my slide show to see more! :)

Sea World

We absolutely loved Sea World! We got a pass that allowed us to go as many times as we wanted for 5 days...we went every night! They had this great new show with Shamu after dark which involved a light show too. It was amazing. We sat in the "soak zone" of course. The picture above is actually us watching the dolphin show. They get you really wet too amazingly. Dane was being "brave" without a poncho. That really didn't last long, as he got completely soaked. So the next time around he was all for the poncho. :)

They also have a great roller coaster there called "Atlantis". It's a water coaster and it's tons of fun. We probably went on it about 20 times, no joke. The line moved pretty fast after dark because people were afraid of getting wet and being cold, but for us Washingtonians it felt like home. :)