Its been almost 5 days now that we’ve been doing the tourist/vacation thing and overall its been good. Going on trips with kids usually includes a bit of frustration since their desires rarely coincide with what we adults thing are their needs. My wife and I figure we have done the vacation thing as well as we could this time; but we always end up spending more money than we thought we would on so-called toys from places like Sea World and the Zoo. The Zoo is very nice down here in San Diego and the Wild Animal Park excels at providing closeup looks. My daughter was wowed by the baby elephant out in plain view and the baby rhino lolling about by its mom. I love to see well done primate displays and the lowland gorillas at the park are excellent. I still feel that they need acres and we need to look at different ways to see them in a ecology and habitat. I think we are missing some of the behaviors with how we do it now. So, I gently would like to challenge zoo masters and animal park leaders to invent new ways to show people their critter counterparts. We should have ways of interacting and seeing, watching and understanding. I don’t know the ways but I just feel in the case of the lowland gorillas I saw, we need something else.
That being said, the elephants, rhinos, several types of antelope and gazelle, a cheetah or two, and other types of animal were well shown at the park. We all had a good time and even the toys frame the moment.
I’ll post a more comprehensive view of the vacation by day perhaps at some point. It was successful and its difficult to have 4 people squeezed into a small suite when people are used to a 5 bedroom large house.
