Visit from My Cousin!

Over the weekend, my cousin Gene, came out to visit with his mom. I played hostess, showing them around the best of San Diego. It was a short but fun visit, filled with swapping family stories (which I obviously can't tell here). You always need guests as excuse to explore some things in your town... like the San Diego zoo! We visited there, and it was also my first time. It was much bigger than I expected, and we didn't get to see everything.

Then I took them to my two favorite spots of San Diego -- Sunset Cliffs and La Jolla Cove. While they were here, we also pigged out at Korean restaurants. I'm pretty sure I ate enough to last me a whole week... except I got hungry the next day again. Funny how our stomachs work. ;)

Here are some pictures. Gene is an excellent photographer (much better than me) so you should check out his photos on flickr or at his blog.

Ducks! They were very colorful...

Koala bears were sleeping for the most part. This one woke up and entertained us.

My cousin Gene and his mom in the background. He loves to take picture of others taking pictures.

This little meerkat plunked himself down in the tub and started sunbathing. It was too cute.

Elephants! They seem so peaceful... but they were chomping away at the tree trunks.

Panda bear!!

And the baby panda bear! It was too cute... and very shy.

Gazelle.

Gazelles galore...


Polar bear, taking a nap.

Diving artic duck.
Pretty day to be out at the zoo.


Never saw so many flamingos... actually I don't think I ever saw one before visiting the zoo!

Very tall... and so lean!

That's a python eating a rabbit. Yup, the rabbit's head is inside the python's mouth..!

My cousin clicking away to capture surfers at the Sunset Cliffs.

Sunset cliffs.
The next day was all about La Jolla Cove.

Where we saw seals! Some with babies, like this one where the baby was riding on the back of its mommy seal.

My Kauai Trip in February 2008

So I took a 1-week trip to Hawaii. My friend, Karen, and I spent about 1 week in the island of Kauai. The trip package was from Expedia. We stayed at ResortQuest by the town of Kapaa, which was a pretty central location. Overall, it was a pretty relaxing vacation... just too short!

Verdant hills surrounded by pristine beaches really made Kauai captivating. I love watching nature... and we weren't disappointed. We saw whales, fully breaching. We saw bottle-nosed dolphins, green back turtles (I didn't get to see underwater but Karen did when she scuba dived), lots of fishes, wild goats, ridiculous amount of chickens and roosters, and a quail.

Ok. I would normally paste all the pic's here but even after taking some out, I have 81. And blogger is giving me some trouble with posting pic's. So, I uploaded them to an online album.

Here's the site for album of my pic's.

Kauai 2008 for Blogging