So many animals, so much space! Big, sad disappoin...

So many animals, so much space! Big, sad disappointment to start out with :-( the pandas are gone! Nooooooo--that is the main reason we came here. I mean, we could have just gone to some other panda-less zoo in case they had some animals there that we could see and entertain. My GF was suuuuuper mad that they didn't have pandas and she was like "if you really loved me, you would have taken me somewhere they have pandas," and I was like "come on baby, just look at the grizzly bears or the black bears and imagine some white on their heads and bodies and they're JUST like pandas." She tried but apparently it didn't work so she said if this happens again, that we are THROUGH.

Listen, pandas aside, this zoo is fantastic. For example, even though I was skating through thin ice with my gf, the pygmy hippos were fun to see, and some birds pooped on the ground between me and her, so it didn't even actually hit either of us! So, we were like so relieved that happened/didn't happen. The spaces for the animals are roomier than you see in most other zoos, and the assortment of animals is so much greater than you see at other zoos, as well. So much so, that it is difficult to see all the animals the zoo has to offer.

My bud and his gf (different girl) took the bus tour around the zoo, and they said it made it pretty easy to see everything, while not getting so tired and sunburnt walking around everywhere, but I'm allergic to vinyl, and I thought the seats or something on the buz might be made of vinyl so I was like "ain't no way I'm getting on that bus" and so my gf was suuuuuuper mad, but then she realized that we would get some exercise (bye, calories) and it would give her more time to visualize the pandas where they used to be. I think she might actually be falling for me. :-) :-) :-) The bottom line is, GO TO THE SAM DIEGO ZOO! It's the greatest zoo I've been to, and I've been to several.