Saturday, February 11, 2012
We celebrated Valentine's Day today, because it's just too crazy on the 14th! We had a wonderful day!
We started off the morning by going to Torrey Pines to watch para-gliders. It was really cool to watch them. It looked like a lot of fun!
Then we went to a beach called Children's Beach. They originally built this beach for kids to swim at. They built a wall to help block the huge waves, thus making it more safe for younger kids. However, after building the wall, they found that something else liked this beach...seals! So now Children's Beach is also known as Seal Beach! There is also a walking path that goes around the park. It was a colder day today, and the wind didn't help!
Next we went the SD Zoo and almost finished going everywhere! There are only a few areas left that have been unexplored by the Dietz family! As the seasons change, so will the exhibits though, so we won't get tired of the zoo! There's always something new to go see! We first took the sky tram to the back of the zoo, then walked to the front. Then we took a bus tour of the zoo. We learned some interesting things, one being that Flamingos are not naturally pink. But wild flamingos eat a type of shrimp that turns them pink. At the zoo, they don't have that type of shrimp (they didn't say why) so they feed them a flamingo feed that has pink dye in it! Interesting, huh!
After the zoo we went to Olive Garden for a wonderful meal! We had a fantastic Valentine's celebration!
Interesting that flamingos are not naturally pink. The flamingos at the Orlando Sea World are orange. Now I know why they are not pink!
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