Last day in San Diego and a trip to the zoo is on the agenda. We are hoping the zoo is shady because it is HOT!!! We arrive lateish, our days have slowly become 10 o'clock starts and midnight finishes so we never seem to arrive anywhere until a few hours after opening....luckily everything is open so late over here that it doesn't really matter. Our first thought is to do the zoo bus tour and figure out where everything is. Another queue...20 minutes.....on t...

Today we caught the hop on hop off trolley and cruised around San Diego. The trip began in Old Town which is where the settlement grew from and there were interesting buildings to see and markets selling lots of Indian and Mexican crafts. As San Diego is very close to the Mexico border their influence is very obvious here. The markets were so full of colour, textiles and pottery. The trolley took us to Seaport which is an area near San Diego harbour full of ti...

Our day began with the arm of Talari's glasses completely falling off. It had come off a few days earlier and we glued it in the hopes it would last the trip but no such luck so off to the optometrist we go. They are quick to check the arm and declare them unsavable!! $?@@&.$/?.!,$. Okay, luckily they can do glasses here with a 1 hour turnaround including eye examination. Unsure of how expensive this might be we book Talari in and go ahead.....she has to ...

Legoland, our last ride based theme park....and another scorching day. We packed the girls bathers and headed straight to the water park section of Lego, stopping on the way for a quick drive of some bumper style cars. At the water park we grab the girls bathers from the bag to discover only Sienna's. It would appear that a quick stop to the in park shop is needed and we purchase bathers for both Talari and me so we could all cool off. After an hour or so of slid...

Yep, Disney again. We started at Disneyland, on a mission. We needed to ride the horse drawn carriage and we needed Princess Tiana's autograph. While we waited for the carriage we took the opportunity to have pictures with the traditional Disney folks, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto. We then took our ride and wandered to the area where Princess Tiana apparently hangs out. We had frequented this area many times in the last two days to find her without ...