San Diego Wild Animal Park

We spent a fantastic weekend in San Diego at the Wild Animal Park...we drove down on Friday and stayed over night and the kids had a blast. I've decided that hotels are extra fun as a destination. Usually they serve the purpose as a quick over night on a long road trip, but I realized that to go and stay as a final destination is fun...


The Wild Animal Park was fantastic--much better than the zoo we decided. It was so kid friendly, and with Halloween, there were so many things set up all over the park for the kids to do dealing with creepy crawling critters. Other things we did...rode the carousal a few times...

Visited the petting zoo...

By far my favorite activity of the entire weekend...there was a guy handing out dead worms for people to eat (think Amazing Race)...the whole activity was utterly disgusting to me, but Kate, being our ambitious eater, ate several. She declared them "good" and kept saying they tasted like Cheetos. So, so gross. Even Charlie ate a few. Kate's big quest on our way out of the park was to the find the worm guy again, but to no avail. Lauren, being the "ewwww, what is that red thing on my plate???" girl that she is, stayed as far away as possible...


The only family picture we got...not the greatest, but it's all we got! It's pretty clear by my expression and Andy's closed eyes that the camera holder didn't count to 3--oh well.

"Journey to Africa" safari tour...so cool...

There was an activity set up for the kids to hoola-hoop...totally random, but I think we spent an hour there!~




Looking for bugs...seriously the activities and staff were fantastic--totally set up for families and kids...