MommyWithFaith: The Duck Affair

I feel awful for not blogging while I was on vacation, but the husband needed my computer and the next few posts should make up for it :)

Last weekend we took a drive down to Northern San Diego to visit my family. In the mean time, we had a bit of fun. We decided to go to the Wild Animal Park to celebrate my dad's birthday and because it's been such a long time since we have been. I will say it's not as "Wild" as I remember, it has become more of a "Zoo" ... however it was still a bunch of fun and we got to see a lot.

When we first arrived we were being all touristy (if that's a word) studying the park map and you wouldn't believe what decided to walk past us ...

That IS a cheetah... crazy right? it was being accompanied by 2 zoo keepers and a large black dog (I guess they transport with buddies to keep them comfortable.)

Next on the agenda came feeding the Lorikeet Birdies ... Faith had a blast... I must put out a warning... when going to see these birds be prepared to see poop and be pooped on... mostly nectar but still, my dad can preach about it ;)

To get out of the heat we managed to get on the African Safari tram ride, we saw giraffes, zebras, rhinos, and their babies !! SO CUTE !! It was a lot of fun to see all the animals in there some what natural habitats. I think it was too hot to take pics or something... so moving on to the GORILLAS !!

I will wrap up with how our trip ended, we were resting in the shade around a pond that had a few ducks in it. However we weren't prepared to be entertained...

Female duck #1 had a not so pretty nest, as she tried so hard to get the sticks to stay down and neat she couldn't help it, after all her so called "nest" ended up being a fallen tree branch that was not so nest like. Male Duck however thought it could work, so he hopped up to check it out and after plucking at her a few times realized it wasn't what he wanted. In the mean time, Female Duck #2 was about 3 feet away in a much better put together beautiful nest, she started to puff herself up and do some weird throat thing (apparently it was a turn on) and you guessed it, Male Duck flew right over and and started showing off for her. I wasn't prepared to watch this Duck affair happen before my eyes, but thankfully a tall white crane looking bird was there to be the mediator as he stood down between the two nests shaking his head back and forth.

This is a pic of Female Duck #1 ...