The Amazing Vacation Blog (TM), Day Thirteen!

6:00 AM - Hmm, the wife has not had a good sleep and is not enjoying this bed, so she heads out to the pull-out couch to try to get some sleep. Amazingly, I sleep much better after she leaves :-)

9:30 AM - Up and Tracey is making some bacon and eggs for breakfast. Definitely one of the big advantages of a resort over hotels....food in a fridge and making your own meals from time to time.

12:00 PM - In the car and off to the San Diego Safari Park. This park, which used to be called the San Diego Wild Animal Park, is always a favorite of ours. SIXTY-FIVE acres big. Always lots to see and do. Also, kudos to them for having special parking for Hybrids; we get to park about 30 feet from the gate.

After touring a ton of exhibits and getting some great pictures, including some adorable meerkats and rather intimidating gorillas, we sit down for a bit of lunch before our scheduled event.

3:10 PM - We get to the area for our encounter with a cheetah. It's called the Cheetah Run Safari; the cheetah runs, of course, which everyone can see, but we have a better view and get to "meet and greet" the cheetah after the show. What a gorgeous animal.

And one happy kitty cat. He spent a lot of our encounter time purring and licking his trainer.

Before the run, we get an added bonus, a face to face (almost) meeting with another cat, an African Caracle. Tracey and I have encountered this species of cat once here before and we are the only guests who know the name of the species. We feel pretty smart :-)

The cheetah runs twice, so fast that I can hardly keep up with him with our camcorder. It's an awesome experience. Cats rule!! So much better than stupid humans.

Kidding. A bit.

4:30 PM - done for today but we have some other things we want to see here so we are going to come back on Monday morning for another couple of hours. Love this park.

6:30 PM - Dinner time, and we've opened up our Turnbull 2010 Cabernet Franc to go with the Parmesan chicken and rice we cooked. It's absolutely terrific. Tracey called this the "best Cab Franc" ever during the tasting and she reiterated that fact tonight. I agree. It's really terrific.

8:30 PM - It's Saturday night, which means it's ice cream time. Why? Because it is. EVERY night should be ice cream night.

No big plans for the evening but relaxing and trying to get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow is a resort day, with a rather large amount of football to be consumed...maybe. We'll miss our NFL Sunday Ticket so we'll have to watch whatever game they put on TV. Hopefully they make some good picks, if I have to watch the freaking Patriots I might have to shoot my TV a la Elvis.