fun in San Diego.

We took a mini vacation to San Diego and we were lucky to hit the most awesome weather over there (low 55 high 75), and we absolutely enjoyed our time together. We went to the Zoo and the Wild Animal Park. It was fun (or funny? read along...) trying to show Eli all the animals. Sometimes he noticed them, but a lot of time he didn't, especially when the animals where just laying around napping in the middle of the day.

See how Eli was looking 'really hard' for the animals at the Zoo? (Even though they had the most active Koalas I had ever seen in my whole life.) Well, he eventually spotted a mother and a baby Koala duo after we pointed at them like 10-20 times, and he was really intrigued.

Finally, we didn't have to point out this one, and he realized there's really animals for him to see in the zoo... just have to be big and close enough, and the right height.

He was being very shy at the petting zoo, which we did't understand why (he always love to 'harrass' our friends' dogs.) He wouldn't get any closer to the animals less than an arm length, but he thought it was funny, he was really giggling the whole time.

An elephant 'royalty' getting a pedicure, even though it's big but she was so still that Eli didn't know what to look at.

His favorite was the Skyfari Ride, he was totally excited and distracted every time we were up there.

The next day at the Wild Animal Park we kinda gave up trying to point out the animals. His favorite thing to do at the park was to wandering around, touching trash cans and drinking fountains, and watching other kids at the zoo.

In this picture, Eli was looking at the wheels in the bottom of the trailer in front of us, while everyone else were looking at the giraffes.

Towards the end of our zoo trip he spotted the baby elephant, finally!

We went to Torrey Pines Beach at one early evening. At first Eli didn't realized that the ocean would be so attractive to him, and he was just totally consumed by the sand and his tools...

And then once he looked up, there went Eli leaving those cute little foot prints on the wet sand, on his way to greet the ocean...

Then he sold his soul to it...

So, it was starting to get cold and the sun was setting, the only way to get him stop was to drag him away and up to the cliff, and here's the view:

Eli's attempt in making his way back to the water from the cliff... (noticed the 'stylish shorts' he was wearing, it's actually a T-shirt upside down, we forgot to bring an extra pairs of shorts, but who would expect him to be willing to get so wet in the cold water?)

The next day we visited the La Jolla Beach. Gorgeous... gorgeous... we wished we didn't have to leave. There were big gathering of wildlife by the coast in groups (birds, pelicans, seals, ducks... etc.)

And the crytal blue ocean water and the wildflowers just made the picture perfect.

 Someone was interested in meeting Eli?

Santino took Eli to get close to the wave as much as possible...

And he totally loved it, and we totally felt in love with San Diego.