Saying Goodbye to San Diego, Part V

I guess this isn't really a "true" "Saying Goodbye to San Diego" post since the whole family didn't go, but Laura and Jessica loved their trip to the San Diego Zoo today (thanks Kim) while I worked on finishing my exciting Idaho Water Law research paper due tomorrow. Laura would be the best one to write about the fun adventures, but she's in bed with the flu and I needed a break from Idaho's procedural aspects of administering water delivery calls by senior appropriators against junior groundwater pumping irrigators (don't tell me you didn't just get shivers).

Since I don't know the full stories behind the pictures. I'll post the pictures now and when Laura's feeling better she can insert the descriptions and funny stories later. Enjoy.
It's Laura now. Luckily I don't think I had the flu, but man did I feel sick. I guess I just needed some sleep. Poor Michael having to deal with me and Jessica during finals. He's so good to us.

But yes, the zoo was super fun. The first thing Jessica said this morning was, "Animals again?" If we're back in San Diego next year we will definitely have to invest in a year zoo pass.

Jessica with some "monkeys" - i.e. the chimpanzees.

Outside of the gorillas were these cool statues. What can I say, Jessica's a loving little girl.
I think she named this bad boy "Peterson"


Telling the flamingos to shush
Well, kind of. Actually we showed her some ducks in there that were sleeping. "Shhhh, quiet!"


The elephants were really big and really noisy (oh, did I mention smelly). But Jessica just loved them and wasn't at all scared or intimidated.


The giraffes were one of her favorite. She's still talking about them.


And I just had to include this post-zoo pic too. I came home to work on the paper just as Jessica woke up from her nap and Laura decided she needed a nap. I was busy ignoring Jessica while writing until I hear her nervous whimper. Despite our best effort to pack in such a way as to deter this activity, she'd found just enough footholds to get to the top, but not to get down. I took this right before grabbing her and doing a little more reorganizing. I think she learned a little something from the monkeys today.