Let the madness begin
Day 1 of our ComicCon adventure started with a five hour road trip and a stay at the Embassy Suites hotel in lovely Temecula.
The driving wasn't bad, hubby did all the work there and I played navigator. When we stopped in Barstow, we actually ran into someone we knew. Of all places to run into someone...some dinky little gas station in Barstow. I actually think we were stalked there, but I'm ok with that.
After we made it to the hotel, we trekked off to the San Diego Wild Animal Park in Escondido. We took a small journey through the San Diego County wine country, and got to see the meanest birds on the planet, ostriches. I'm not kidding. They are really mean. I got pecked in the head by one once for doing NOTHING! I was just standing there and the darn thing nailed me on the top of the head with that horrible weapon on the front of its face.
But I digress! We then found the animal park and ventured forth into the jungles of deepest Escondido. It was actually fun. We got to see some groovy wild animals, and watched something called the "Cheetah Run". They place a small child at the end of a 100 yard stretch of grass and release a cheetah. I'm joking. It's 110 yards. Actually, it's one of those stuffed weiner dogs from PetSmart. The handlers let a dog chase it first, a dog named Yeti, who is apparently good friends with the cheetah, Jabari. Dogs and cats living together...MASS HYSTERIA!!!
Anyway, the dog gives the cheetah confidence as apparently cheetahs are wusses. The handler even said that. They flee from conflict. Sounds like me. Although I don't really "flee", I sort of hobble slowly.
We then trekked around to the elephants. They were really fun to watch, especially when one of them dropped a table sized poop right in front of us. Then one of the males decided he had enough of the pen, and started literally pulling on the massive gate. I'm not joking about this, he really wanted out. He used his trunk to wrap around the metal bars and was slamming the gate. Keith started yelling, "Attica! Attica!"
We also saw a pancake sized (and shaped) bullfrog from Africa. And we saw two birds of prey, one owl with a bum eye and another one that wasn't an owl but looked like one. A fake owl. The impostor of the bird world.
We then left our wild adventure as the jungle closes at 7:00, as with most jungles.
We then scurried off to Tom's Farms near Corona. If you ever get the chance to stop here, please do. It's a farmer's market (a small one), that also has a giant wine/cheese shop with excellent breads, and there's a candy shop as well with all kinds of cool stuff. There's two restaurants and a carry out deli as well. On the weekends they do roasted whole ears of corn. There's often entertainment there as well.
After loading up with too much bread and snacks, we drove back to the hotel and promptly attempted to slip into a coma. I say "attempted" as we can never seem to sleep soundly in any beds but ours. Also, the room was about 85 degrees with equal levels of humidity.
We are off today to the DoubleTree in Mission Valley and then off to get our badges for ComicCon! Tonight is preview night so I'll be blogging later for those who give a hoot. Heh heh...hoot....owl...heh heh. Whatever.
Until later.
The driving wasn't bad, hubby did all the work there and I played navigator. When we stopped in Barstow, we actually ran into someone we knew. Of all places to run into someone...some dinky little gas station in Barstow. I actually think we were stalked there, but I'm ok with that.
After we made it to the hotel, we trekked off to the San Diego Wild Animal Park in Escondido. We took a small journey through the San Diego County wine country, and got to see the meanest birds on the planet, ostriches. I'm not kidding. They are really mean. I got pecked in the head by one once for doing NOTHING! I was just standing there and the darn thing nailed me on the top of the head with that horrible weapon on the front of its face.
But I digress! We then found the animal park and ventured forth into the jungles of deepest Escondido. It was actually fun. We got to see some groovy wild animals, and watched something called the "Cheetah Run". They place a small child at the end of a 100 yard stretch of grass and release a cheetah. I'm joking. It's 110 yards. Actually, it's one of those stuffed weiner dogs from PetSmart. The handlers let a dog chase it first, a dog named Yeti, who is apparently good friends with the cheetah, Jabari. Dogs and cats living together...MASS HYSTERIA!!!
Anyway, the dog gives the cheetah confidence as apparently cheetahs are wusses. The handler even said that. They flee from conflict. Sounds like me. Although I don't really "flee", I sort of hobble slowly.
We then trekked around to the elephants. They were really fun to watch, especially when one of them dropped a table sized poop right in front of us. Then one of the males decided he had enough of the pen, and started literally pulling on the massive gate. I'm not joking about this, he really wanted out. He used his trunk to wrap around the metal bars and was slamming the gate. Keith started yelling, "Attica! Attica!"
We also saw a pancake sized (and shaped) bullfrog from Africa. And we saw two birds of prey, one owl with a bum eye and another one that wasn't an owl but looked like one. A fake owl. The impostor of the bird world.
We then left our wild adventure as the jungle closes at 7:00, as with most jungles.
We then scurried off to Tom's Farms near Corona. If you ever get the chance to stop here, please do. It's a farmer's market (a small one), that also has a giant wine/cheese shop with excellent breads, and there's a candy shop as well with all kinds of cool stuff. There's two restaurants and a carry out deli as well. On the weekends they do roasted whole ears of corn. There's often entertainment there as well.
After loading up with too much bread and snacks, we drove back to the hotel and promptly attempted to slip into a coma. I say "attempted" as we can never seem to sleep soundly in any beds but ours. Also, the room was about 85 degrees with equal levels of humidity.
We are off today to the DoubleTree in Mission Valley and then off to get our badges for ComicCon! Tonight is preview night so I'll be blogging later for those who give a hoot. Heh heh...hoot....owl...heh heh. Whatever.
Until later.