San Diego Wild Animal Park

After the water polo tournament was over we stopped at the San Diego Wild Animal Park on the way home for Travis.



Ted got the ducks to eat out of his hand. Travis was more interested in the geese and he got them to eat out of his hand.

We rode on the new journey into Africa tram. You can n longer see any of the Asian exhibits unless you go on a special savanna safari trip which costs more money of course. The lion camp exhibit was the boys favorite. We even got to see them up close and moving.

Water polo tournament - San Diego

Ted played goalie for the 10 and under team. They finished 15th in the tournament.
Here is one of his blocks from the tournament.
He also played for the 12 and under team. They took third in the tournament and got medals.

San Diego Zoo

We were at San Diego for a big water polo tournament over the weekend. We started are adventures by visiting the San Diego zoo before the games started. Travis loves zoos so we went since he had to go to water polo even though he doesn't play. We only spent 4 hours there. We never did get to see the pandas or the polar bears because it was not on Travis' agenda. He did like the gorillas though. The whole group was in the viewing window area. They also had a young gorilla about 6 months hold.


This is a dwarf crocodile in the background. The keepers have each one trained to come to a different object for feeding. It was fascinating to watch

Learning to skateboard

Down time between water polo games can get very boring. Not enough time to go anywhere but too long to just sit around. The boys spent their allowance on some skate boards and have been learning to skate at the tournaments. However, this particular outing ending in a small accident. But Ted had no idea anything had happened.

Travis the dancing machine

Ted insisted that I post a video of Travis dancing to embarrass him like I did with Ted's beach dancing video. This video was taken during a water polo tournament.

Winchester Mystery House

We visited the Winchester Mystery House. A little history for those of you who do not know. Sarah Winchester moved to San Jose after the death of her baby and husband. She believed she was being haunted by the spirits of those who were killed by the winchester guns. So she consulted the spirits nightly and built on her house 24 hours a day for 38 years to appease the spirits. To confuse them she had doors to nowhere (pictured to the right it drops 2 stories and does open from the inside), stairs to the ceiling, windows in the floors and other bizarre features. It can be seen on Haunted History, Secret passageways and the ghost hunters TV shows. Ted was excited and asked hundreds of questions and recited information he knew about the house on both tours we took today. I don't have many pictures because you can't take pictures in the house.

Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk

We spent the afternoon and evening at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and beach area. The rides closed at 8pm and the boys wanted to go down to the beach. Of course it was cold and cloudy. Not to mention the pacific Ocean off of California never gets above 65 ° F. The boys said that they would stay out of the water. But somehow by the time we left they were wet t their armpits.