Big Trip--Day 2 (SF Zoo)

So Mike started blogging about our recent CA trip in the last post. I think in order to keep my sanity I'm going to blog about the trip in several posts. This will allow me to post a little at a time and won't give you all picture overload.

As Mike alluded to in the previous post, while Steven adjusted to his PDT bedtime within a day, it took him about 5 or 6 days to adjust to a PDT wake-up time. On Wednesday, the day after our arrival, he woke up at 4:15 and babbled on and off, waking and sleeping, until we finally let him get up at 5:00. Thank goodness I had been exhausted and gone to bed myself at 8:00 pm the night before, so I got a decent night's sleep despite of the early wake up call.

On Wednesday, our first full day in SF, we went to the San Francisco Zoo. Amazingly I did not take any pictures. I guess we were having too much fun! It is a great zoo and one of the best parts is that it's close to the ocean and therefore rather cool and, at least in the morning, cloudy. This means that the animals are actually out and active and not hiding under a rock or tree somewhere escaping the heat. Steven got to see his favorites, the giraffes. He also liked the gorillas, the rhinos, and the penguins.

That evening we met up with my good friend Kristin for dinner at the Presidio Social Club. Steven pulled out all the stops for Kristin and was quite the charmer all through dinner. He even gave her some good high-five goodbyes afterwards...

He was also very interested in her bracelet...