We took another trip to San Diego today to visit the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Park.
This place is a really really BIG zoo!

The herbivores all run free together.  You have giraffes and rhinos rubbing shoulders.

We took the ride that goes through the park.  It was very cool to see all of the animals.
The park has helped restore many different species to the wild.
It is like a real Jurassic park with regular old animals.

Speaking of Jurassic park, the park has a Dino Mountain area that is amazing.
You have a mess of robotic dinosaurs in a redwood forest.
Sam – the King of the Dinos is right in the middle – Big Rex!

Grandma – we knew you would love this!

This one is also for Grannyma!

After the dinos, we did a bit of calf-roping.
It was fun and a bit of a pace-changer.

Lastly, we stopped off to see a porcupine show.
We sat back and the boys ran up to watch the show.

We overheard the boys ask the nice park hosts how the porcupine shoots off its quills.
Kelley and I were laughing so hard that we could not see.
Sam and Ben were very upset that the hosts told them the porcupine could not shoot its quills.
Sam said – “My daddy said the porcupine shoots its quills at stuff!”
Sam was very upset that the hosts knew so little about porcupines.
I had to defend my position on the deadly nature of the porcupine.
I explained that the nice hosts did not want panic and hysteria to overtake the crowd which was of course why they did not tell the real story of the porcupine and its ability to shoot quills with laser precision.
Had the crowd known the real danger they were in, it would have been a real riot.
We were lucky to have survived such a close encounter with such a deadly adversary!

Adios,
The A-team