A Day At The Zoo

No, I don't mean a visit to family either. The San Diego Zoo actually. About 3 weeks ago, the husband and I took a road trip to San Diego as we needed a little break. The San Francisco Giants were playing baseball down that way so we figured, what the heck it's only about a 5 hour drive. Since both baseball games were at night we thought it would be fun to go to either the zoo or SeaWorld. Well, have you seen how much it costs to get into SeaWorld??? Even the zoo was expensive but I did manage to find a site that it ended up being $5 less than if we had bought the tickets on the zoo's site. Now I do have to admit that I'm not for zoo's but I'm also not entirely against them either. We have been to a few that are amazing such as Sydney's Taronga Zoo which I believe is hands down THE best zoo in the world but we also went to one that almost left me in tears at the state of the animals (Bangkok's zoo). All in all it was a fun day and I managed to get some decent shots.


Amazing colors on both the tiger and the reptiles, which are my favorites next to dogs (no dogs in the zoo though).


Some more cool colors on the snake.


Don't you just love when a peacock has it's feathers all spread out and open like this?!


Last but not least, a baby meerkat. He was so far away and my camera isn't real good at zooming in so it's not the best shot. Poor thing got stuck and was trying his best to get around then his mother came over and was feeding/sheltering him from the viewing public. Just adorable though.


The Giants managed to lose the game on the Monday night, which we stayed and watched till the bitter end. Tuesday nights game we had to leave about 9pm-ish in order to drive back to Vegas and not arrive TOO late and wouldn't you know it, they managed to win that one as we listened on the radio along the 15 back home. Story of our lives!

Just A Few Things....

Firstly...Thank You's


I wanted to take a moment to say a big thank you to all who stop by and take the time to read my blog as well as all the comments. If you never read my first post here, then you should just so you understand why it is I'm so grateful for everyone who stops by. I would also like to send a big thanks to FishHawk over at As The Crackerhead Crumbles for including me in his list of blogs to check out, it was quite an honor. So, I'd like to return the favor and tell everyone you need to stop by and read his blog. It is definitely worth the time.



Now......The Other

It took me a while to come to this decision but I have decided to no longer accept paid ads through Entrecard. I will also be canceling all current paid ads. This was a decision I thought long and hard over and I kept trying to justify some of the ads but I have to say it just wasn't working out. Many of the blogs I visit and subsequently buy advertising with my credits do not accept paid ads and I felt I was doing them a disservice by accepting their EC credit paid ads and not giving it the 100% exposure they were giving mine. When Entrecard started the paid ads I was not happy about it but I accepted them to at least be able to say "OK, I tried it". Now I can safely say, I've tried it and I don't like it. So, I apologize to any and all over this but I felt it had to be done on my part.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed a few fun Vegas photos I took when my mother-in-law was visiting. The second one is from the top of the Stratosphere Tower looking along the Strip. If you ever visit Vegas, it is definitely one spot you need to go to as the views are brilliant.