Today we packed up the car and headed to the San Francisco Zoo. The drive turned out to be just a bit too long... it' s awfully hard to wait when you have such anticipation and you're three. David napped for most of the drive there, which was great because it gave us more time to play at the zoo. The kids had a good time visiting the animals once we were there.

We first saw the giraffes which turned out to be Isabelle's favorite part. She had some trouble picking out her clothes and wanted my "help" but didn't want to wear anything I chose. So I picked out this cute white shirt with green stripes and a big apple on it and told her that maybe the giraffe would see the apple and come close for a nibble. Well, you know that she never forgets a thing, so as soon as we saw the giraffes, (which turned out to be really close), she unzipped her jacket and was holding out her shirt to make sure they could see it. She wanted to get into the pen with them. Here's our daughter who is usually intimidated by anything much bigger than herself wanting to walk right up to these gi-normous animals. Go figure...


David would have jumped over every fence to run right up to any creature we saw. The boy has no fear of anything. He also really loves birds and flowers and spent the day pointing at the birds and yelling "birdy! birdy!!" and making his best attempt at bird sounds. He also wanted to see and smell and probably tear apart every flower he saw. He was so excited he was wild and didn't know what to do with himself.


They has a terrific time at the petting zoo part. They got to pet sheep and goats and see other farm animals. That was a big hit.


We only got through about a fourth of the zoo. It's really huge. I am not fond of zoos but would actually recommmend this one. It's beautifully landscaped and accessible, and the animals we saw looked happy and in pretty healthy and natural environments. Some of the large birds had been placed at the zoo because they had been injured and couldn't return to the wild. That's not a bad life considering the other options for them...

We also found out that there's camp ground there! We're going to check that out. How cool for pretty good camping to only be a short distance away... we'd have the zoo, the ocean, the city and some really cool places to hike around. I love San Francisco.