Zak was pretty right the day after we arrived in San Diego and we headed off to Legoland. I'm guessing that will also be covered in Adventures of a Minifig. We met up with my old riding buddy Rich and his 6 year old son Austin. Austin is a veteran of many Legoland visits and had his favorites he wanted to tell us about as well as rides he would not do. He and Zak became good mates and very thoroughly checked out the Minifig trading options around the park. We split with Rich and Austin for a while to do a MindStorms robotic challenge were Emma and Zak had to make robots complete a set of tasks.
Dawn, Rich's wife, had not been able to come down during the day but drove down to have dinner with us and introduced us to Pizookie's... A soft, warm cookie with Ice Cream on top... I keep expecting to get the kids left overs but it never eventuates!!! It was great to catch up with Rich, Dawn and Austin again but all the bike talk with Rich left me feeling quite guilty that my current lack of fitness meant we didn't ride together this time...
Next day we visited the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Park. It took us about 30 minutes to get more than 100m into the park because there were keepers presenting animals just through the entrance. First up was a Blue Tongued Skink which was soon followed by a really beautiful Golden Eagle. We had a great day viewing all kinds of animals and shows on training of birds and elephants, took the tram ride around the huge enclosures and got to see a Cheetah do a 100yrd dash!
SeaWorld is a bit Disneyfied for me but it was a pretty good day all the same. Watching the Dolphins just playing around after they had been doing some training was better than the Dolphin show which had too much of people swinging and diving etc... Zak and Emma have become big fans of dolphins, sea lions and sea otters.
That ended the San Diego part of our trip and we headed north again, passing back through LA to Solvang, stopping along the way to have lunch with Graham, who Cathy and I were at University with and his wife Janet, in Thousand Oaks.
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Good to hear from you, thought you would be busy and have no time to blog.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are all having a great time.