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[geekchick]

It's 11:30, I should be working on going to bed, and I'm @#$%ing sunburned. Went out for lunch today with some folks from the subcommittee and since we ate outside on a patio, I managed to get my face and chest sunburned. Augh! But it was incredibly beautiful here today - sunny, a bit breezy and warm. I am liking it here, although it's just about time to go home and sleep in my own bed. Sometime late tomorrow night I'll be home. I hear it's been raining all week, so I'll try to minimize the sunburn so as to not make Chris wildly jealous. =) I think I'll have to come back to San Diego some other time. We considered going to the zoo on Sunday, but I am utterly spoiled by having the National Zoo locally and the idea of $32 to go to the zoo didn't sit too well with me right now. Maybe on vacation when I'm expecting to spend lots of money I'll try again. I'm very much in touch with my inner cheapskate right about now, unfortunately. Ah well, time for packing up and then bed for me. And this time, I shall not be leaving my curtains open thinking that perhaps the rising sun will help me wake up at 7. (by 6 am there was quite the glare in my face and I was pretty much up for the day an hour before I needed to be; gah!)

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[trinker.livejournal.com]

I think that the SD Zoo is better than the National Zoo. Unless the National Zoo has undergone major renovations since '88, which I could believe. Because it really needed some.

But my favorite zoo is the L.A. Zoo.

Go to the other museums in Balboa Park, instead.

[geekchick]

I believe it's been renovated since then, yes. I was more confused by the "wait, you have to PAY to go to the zoo?" aspect. ;) What I really wanted to do was go to the wild animal park, but that didn't work out this trip.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Ah! I'd forgotten about not needing to pay for the National Zoo.

I should mention, too, that the National Zoo does not take my unaward for "most depressing zoo I've ever been to". That one goes to the zoo in Antwerp, also in '88.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you have a rental car, I'd recommend driving an hour out to near Escondido and visiting the SD Zoo's wild animal park. It has a more natural setting for most of the animals. And don't forget to feed the lorries ;-).

[geekchick]

Yeah, I wanted to do that but we don't have a car this trip. It's perfectly convenient here, unless you want to do something outside the city. =)

[gsh]

Well, if you wish, I can rub suntan lotion on you. :)

[geekchick]

It is far too late for that. Owie. =)

How about?

[gsh]

How about rubbing Aloe Vera? :)

You forgot

[gsh]

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Roar!

[tcb.livejournal.com]

The San Diego zoo is really worth it though, having also lived in DC.. If nothing else but the polar bears :) but the rest of the zoo is good, too.

Re: Roar!

[geekchick]

I will admit that what made me really think about going on Sunday was the far too adorable pictures of polar bear cubs on the airport billboards. ;) Alas I was short on both time and money this trip so I didn't manage to go to pretty much anything. It's an excellent excuse however to come back to San Diego on my own some time later and see the zoo and the wild animal park and Sea World and all the other neat stuff I didn't get to. If this had been a vacation, I'd have been annoyed; as it was, I was happy that I got to see the sun at all between meetings. ;)