365 Days in SD, Day 80 (yesterday): Bouncing Around and Nighttime at the Zoo

First of all, how nice is it to finally live in an area where Groupon actually means something? 

A friend and I bought some Groupons to a local inflatable bouncy place. Lots of big bounce houses, slides, even a couple water slides. Calen went down a I-shit-you-not two story water slide with his 4 year old friend and while I was convinced they would both panic, they absolutely loved it and did it maybe five times. 

Seems legit

That night, we once again did the zoo.

When you live ten minutes away from the world famous San Diego zoo, it's not hard to spend a lot of time there. By a lot I mean a lot. We usually find ourselves there once or twice a week. The way the math works, when we bought our not-cheap annual membership, if we went more than twice in a year, we would pay for our membership. So since we've only been here two and a half months and have gone to the zoo something like seven or eight times, I think we've gotten our moneys worth. 

And since the zoo is bigger than any two zoos combined ever, there's something new to see each time. Literally, each time. 

My favorite part of the zoo here is their summer program called Nighttime at the Zoo, which means that they stay open later than normal, until 9pm. Since all the animals wake up after dark, it's far more exciting. We haven't been to the zoo in the normal daytime hours yet. Generally we eat dinner then head over around 5:30 or 6. 

Nighttime at the Zoo ends on Labor Day, and since that's a school night for Calen (booooooo....hisssss), we decided that last night was our last nighttime zoo run. 

Acting like seals. Watch out for that polar bear!

On the skytram at the zoo at sunset

Pink lights shining on the flamingoes at night made them look like they were glowing

Each time we go, we walk past this booth where this incredibly talented artist hand paints these beautiful names with animals painted in. Even though it was absurdly expensive, I finally decided to just do it. After all, we might only have ten months or so left here. And what better keepsake from this city for the kids than their names gorgeously painted at the infamous San Diego Zoo?

Both boys got to pick which animals they wanted, and it only took an hour to paint both of them. 

Calen's

Camden's. He picked all his own animals, and I was impressed!

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