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Day 4 – No Butts, Animal Butts That Is

Today we basically spent all day at the zoo, since San Diego Zoo is very large.  We got up around 7:00 AM and had breakfast at the hotel breakfast buffet.  They had build your own breakfast burrito. I didn’t make a burrito, just had some eggs and a muffin.   After breakfast we headed to the zoo, which was 15 minutes away.  I did argue with the GPS slightly as it wanted to put me on the freeway for half mile, when I could just go through the city streets and not deal with rush hour traffic.  I convinced it to take the city street route.   We got to the zoo right when it opened at 9:00AM and didn’t leave till almost 3:00PM.  Yes, the zoo is that big.   We started in the Wildlife Explorers Base Camp which had some invertebrates, red pandas, owls, fennec foxes, and hummingbirds. We started here because the aerial tram station is there and it takes you to the top of the zoo, so we could work our way down the hill instead of up.  The a...