Finally, break is over. I shouldn’t be saying that, yet I am. Normally I wouldn’t want break to end, but these last few days have been…I’ll say tiring, to say the least. Family decided to go to California from Wednesday to Saturday. And what better way to start it off than getting two hours of sleep, departing by car to San Diego at 2 in the morning, then getting to the zoo and walking all over the damn thing multiple times with just those two hours of sleep and an apple fritter for energy, all the while as the temperature is slowly rising so that by the afternoon you feel as if you have heat stroke, even though it isn’t all that hot? And then getting to the hotel that is actually a lot crappier than expected, hanging around there for a few hours (no sleeping involved, just watching other people sleep) then going to dinner and then finally a few hours after dinner going to bed? Dinner wasn’t actually that bad. We couldn’t find anything good to order in, so we decided (and by we I mean my mother, father and I. My brother was being too lazy to get up and go to eat with us) to try Applebee’s, since the GPS said it was close. Well we didn’t end up going to Applebee’s. I’m not actually sure where it was, I didn’t see it. We did however end up going to Mimi’s Cafe, which wasn’t all too bad. I was having trouble deciding what I wanted, but I eventually just got some chicken sandwich. I forget what it was called, but it was big. And since my mom got the special where you get an appetizer, entree and dessert she gave me her apple crisp, which I ate even though I was nearly stuffed. I definitely was when I finished. And although I wanted to go to bed then I needed to let my food digest some. Despite the crappiness of the day the zoo was rather nice. We were there a bit before it opened so we were one of the first in. So did the sky ride thing, I forget what it’s called at the moment, and then we walked around once to the other side of the zoo by the ride. And somehow we managed to get completely to the beginning again from the far side while looking for the pandas, which were on the far side where we had initially been after the sky ride thing. So we walked back that way, and saw the pandas, then ate lunch. It was pretty yummy. The only problem with the zoo I had (other than the huge hills it was built on, but can’t blame nature) was that there were no llamas. Yes, you read correctly. No llamas. I couldn’t believe it. I love llamas, but they had none. They had something that is a descendant of ancient llamas, but no actual llamas.
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