Yesterday my dad and me went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Neither of us had ever been even though we’ve lived in California forever now. We wanted to go someone fun to take pictures for me to practice with my new camera.

I spent plenty of time playing with my camera the entire day, so much so that i even took pictures before we got to the park! This is a favorite bridge of mine, i have no idea it’s name but i can say it’s south on the 15 freeway. If you live in Southern California you know what bridge I’m talking about!

This patch of highway is called “avocado Highway” since all along the patch on the mountains there is avocado trees everywhere, YUM!~

Finally got to the park and let me dad pay for the tickets! <3 you dad!

First animals that pose for me today, and they have to do this?! Seriously why is it’s head in the other one’s butt?

We then decided to go on this balloon to get a better view of the park, that’s me posing to the right of the balloon.

Our shadow, we were 400ft above the ground, pretty cool.

Elephants look small from 400ft above the ground.

Hey you can see my dad’s car from up here too! Guess which one it is! Don’t know? I’ll give you a clue, it’s yellow. Free Internets to anyone who can guess the make and model!

King of the Jungle, he can afford to relax.

Sadly i don’t remember half the animal’s names, but this is pretty darn cute.

Cheetahs! They were being super lazy all day and hiding, wasn’t able to get a good shot…

Another animal i don’t know! Antelope maybe?

EDIT: Oops they’re gazelles!

This i know! This is one of two endangered white rhino’s they have at the park. ONLY 6 LEFT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD! AND THIS PARK HAS TWO! Male and Female but sadly the female is now too old to breed. But there is a zoo in the czech republic that has more of these Rhino’s and they are trying hard to help breed them out of extinction.

Same Rhino but different time in the day.

Zebras! Are the white with black stripes? Or black with white stripes? Today i learned they are technically they are black with white stripes!

Filled up the memory card right after this picture which made me mad since they were fighting over the one woman. It was awesome seeing them fight. But i missed some awesome opportunities.

BABY GIRAFFE! ZOMG CUTE!~

The tall one if the male and he was brought in for breeding purposes, looks like he did a good job, all teh females are pregnant!

Another baby sitting, while she looks small she’s actually 9ft tall!

The one tour we missed but will be going back to do, it’s a 50 min tour and you get to go upclose and personal with the animals and even feed some of them.

Deep in thought…

Seriously every zoo I’ve been to the gorillas are kinda dirty, but they were so clean here.

This is his model pose!

Huge Pelicans!

Aww, Momma and Baby!

So regal almost, i loved how you can see such detail in the feathers.

Some amazing flamingos, they are sooo pretty! I’ve always liked Flamingos.

They just stand some gracefully in the water.

Saw this beautiful bird and was so enthralled taking it’s picture, and it squawked. and seriously scared the crap outta me!

Scared me so much that since ti squawked while i was taking the first picture i got this picture of it squawking. But seriously scared the crap out of me!

My dad got bored and ended up taking pictures of me taking pictures of flamingos.

DUCK DUCK! LOVE DUCKS!

The meerkats were being cute and wrestling.

From fighting to giggling!

The lions were pretty darn awesome!

These were the lion cubs, for babies they were HUGE!

Oh Man These Lions were so beautiful and amazing. They made my day really! Best the best animal of the day with this one turtle.

HEHE, they had tons of little things like this in the park for kids to climb in and we saw this turtle shell and i was like “Omg dad you have to take my picture in this! Man i’m lame… But we really had a great time and if you’re ever in the area you really need to go!

Oh and all but the pictures that I’m in were taken by me with my new camera!