Of course I woke up early this morning and decided to make the most of the day by getting in a quick 4 mile run here on Shelter Island while the girls continued sleeping. Instead of the usual deer and squirrels I see on my usual Twinsburg runs, I was treated to sea lions barking and the thrill of watching a naval destroyer pull into the harbor. All the sailors were lined up along the deck and I took a moment to stop and watch the ship as it passed by. There is a nice path along the shoreline that I did two laps of.
We spent the majority of the day at the San Diego Zoo. We arrived just as the park opened at 9am and were able to get some really great views of most of the animals. The highlights were watching the orangutans roll out of bed and start their day, the hippoes swimming around their 150,000 gallon pool, and the beautiful pandas eating bamboo and literally "hanging out" in the trees. Weather was perfect and we all agreed it was an awesome place to explore for five hours!
We then headed to the convention center for the marathon expo and packet pick-up. The parking garage was extremely full and there was a ton of traffic, but surprisingly the expo did not seem very crowded. There was no line at packet pick-up and we moved swiftly through the stops for timing chip and t-shirt. We bought a few goodies and sampled a few products and were back in the car to let DaveDave show us the way back to the hotel!
The girls swam in the pool and then it was Subway for dinner which we ate near the beach across the street from the hotel. To date the girls have each snapped 250 photos on their cameras.
Tomorrow we hope to have a low key day exploring Coronado Island. We will also do a dry run of how to get to the marathon start, parking lot, trolley stops for spectating and finish line. Oh yeah, and I'm going to get up early again and run towards downtown along the harbor and enjoy the sights and sounds of morning along the ocean.
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Sounds awesome. Good luck Denise....you two are an inspiration!!!
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