A Day at the Wild Animal Park

On Tuesday, we went to the Wild Animal Park. They've replaced the monorail ride around the big, open spaces with The Journey Into Africa, an open-sided, soft-wheeled tour vehicle. That's where we headed to first.

Mei wanted to sit in the front row of the first car but there was a sign saying it was reserved for wheelchairs. So we went back towards the second car. As we were looking for a place to sit we heard somebody call "Charles!" It was our friend, Lou. You remember Lou, don't you? She goes to a lot of the cultural events Jerry and I see at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, and now the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts to movie theaters. She's the one Mom had sent the artwork from all the return address labels that charities send her. So Mom and Lou got to meet each other. Wasn't that nice?

We then went to see the baby elephant that was born 18 days earlier.

We first went to the main pen outside the elephant barn. Here we watched an elephant retrieve some tidbit just outside of its pen.



The new baby wasn't there so we kept going. We found it in the small pen to the side of their barn.

We then went to Lorikeet Landing where we fed the beautiful birds.

Of course, there was the Petting Kraal.
There was a baby rhino in a pen in the Petting Kraal (over Xin's left shoulder) but we couldn't pet it. My camera can't take pictures through mesh fences so you'll have to take my word for it...baby rhinos are cute.

We saw meerkats. We had an overpriced lunch.

We had fun.