This past weekend saw us playing host to Karin’s brother and his girlfriend Liz, who we took to the San Diego Wild Animal Park (or as they’d rather now be called “San Diego Zoo Safari Park”) on Saturday. We were lucky enough to get to the Lion exhibit at noon when they open the cage door to feed the lions by hand. If you get there on time you can position yourself roughly five feet from the wire-lattice doors and feel the vibrations from the lions as they purr while chowing down on raw meat.
On Monday we met my sister and her husband at the park, then showed them Queen Califia’s Magical Circle. This hidden treasure of Escondido is tucked away at the back of Kit Carson Park behind the duck pond, and is well worth the quick walk to visit. Tyler and his cousin Rowan had a great time exploring:
I’m headed off to the desert for a couple of days to do some primitive camping, star gazing and reading up at Anza Borrego. I feel that it’s about time that I recharged the batteries a bit and contemplate my future, hopefully with the assistance of a beer of two
And so, if the world should end between now and next week please consider me uninformed and fill me in on the details when I get back on Monday. I’d hate to come back to a zombie apocalypse and nobody told me.
Many thanks for all of the well-wishes! Tyler had a great time ripping open his presents, shoveling fistfuls of carrot cake into this maw, and being manhandled by family members both alien and familiar. Through it all Tyler never lost his smile or blew his cool. Man, if only I could go with the flow as well as that kid can…
We’re pretty confident that Tyler’s favorite toys are the rocket ship tent and cow noisemaker (many thanks, Dash Riprock!).
Since Karin’s parents had never been to Disneyland we managed to find a sitter on Thursday, piled into the FJ and 80 minutes later were on the doorstep of the happiest place on Earth. We had a great time on the various rides, stuffing our faces with churros and people watching. I was even cajoled into getting on Space Mountain. I don’t do well on roller coasters (they scare the bejesus out of me), but I think I kept a brave face for the duration of the ride:
I’m taking a few days off from work to celebrate our son’s first birthday (it’s been a year already?!) and to take a quick trip up to Disneyland. Will be thinking of everyone as we’re eating cake and taking a spin on Space Mountain! See you back here Monday.
In the meantime, please enjoy these postcards my dad sent me many years ago as he travelled the world while serving as an officer in the Navy (hover over the photos for text from the back of the postcards)…
