It should have really been spelled "Zorro" - but we'll let this go.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Was this really necessary?
I made the unfortunate mistake of walking RIGHT underneath this statue and saw, to my shock, that the horse was anatomically correct. Really.
In case you were wondering... it's a stallion. Why this was really necessary, I just don't know.
Night in Balboa Park
Tonight we went to an IMAX movie at the Fleet Science Museum in Balboa Park. It was about dinosaurs. Afterwards we walked through Balboa Park, which has some incredible buildings.
Loren
Zoltar
Black Bean Breakfast
Friday, August 31, 2007
Fun dinner in Old Town
"Buffy" at work
On the Taylor Guitar Tour
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Monkeying around
Panda
Beth
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Chuys
Artichoke cactus
I could spend a week on the grounds of this hotel, just looking at the cacti. This one always makes me hungry.
Brilliantly colored flowers
There are about a thousand of these brightly colored flowers in the hummingbird garden at the Westward Look.
Typical AZ
This is on the way back to the hotel from The Good Egg. We had a huge breakfast and are feeling fat and sassy. :) We're going to spend the afternoon at the pool.
Ah, Arizona... Where the saguaros are as high as an elephant's eye.Blake at the Good Egg
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Nighttime Cactus
The scene of the crime
Walking on the beach in SD
Look ma, I'm wearing a hat!
Off to the beach
Monday, August 27, 2007
Squeaky
Em and I fell in love with this tiny duckling. It followed us around, squeaking non-stop at the top of its lungs. It actually got out of the water and would go wherever Emily went. We must have spent a half hour with this duck. We named him Squeaky. The video of Emily running from the big ducks was when she went to the food machine to get some duck food for this guy.
Another neat thing we saw were Lorakeets -- which are sort of like a cross of parrots and small fluffy parakeets. They are brightly colored with loud screeching voices. We got to go into an enclosure with them and they flew around us. The signs said that they might land on you and you should allow them to, but don't "pet" them because they may bite. Em and I were actually terrorized in the Lorakeet enclosure. They would whiz by our heads and seemed unpredictable. I had all these visions of Alfred Hitchcock movies. Mark, however, loved the Lorakeets and stayed in there with them for quite a while.
That's it for today!
Ducks
This is sort of embarrassing We go to the San Diego Wild Animal park, and when I check my pictures later, two thirds of them are of ducks!
The Elephant Egg
There's a great story behind this not so great picture. We were looking at an enclosure where they kept mother elephants and their babies. (By the way, the baby elephants are adorable. They can be 3 feet tall and 250 pounds at birth.) In the enclosure was this tree pictured above, with a round thing in it, and Emily asked "is that an elephant egg?"
Firt attempt at a video
I can't see this on my mac, but maybe it will work for you PC people. It's a video of Emily running away from some aggressive geese.