Butterflies and Friends

Today my old neighbor and I loaded our kids into her minivan and headed out to the San Pasqual valley to see the butterflies at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. We arrived less than an hour after the gates opened and were surprised to see lines of people streaming out of the park. It still being Spring Break for many folks, I guess lots of people decided to make the trek to the park also.

Despite the many people, we had a blast. The butterflies were very cool and even took a rest on a few of the kids. Of course they were delighted. Daniel and Sammy loved running around with 'the girls', my friend's two daughters. The four of them are so cute together. They are like cousins. The girls have known Daniel since he was 10 months old and Sammy since he was born and they all get along so well.

Because of the cool, breezy weather the animals were out and active. The kids had fun watching the gibbons and gorillas, running around the cool new playground, jumping on the lily pads (Daniel almost fell into the water a couple of times) and torturing, I mean, petting the animals in the petting zoo.

What a fun way to spend a spring day!