San Diego Zoo

This is the day Sandra has been looking forward to since we set out: San Diego Zoo! Apparantly the world's biggest zoo - it is brilliant. It costs about $30 which includes cable car rides and guided tours and after walking round for five and half hours we still haven't seen everything. The layout seems much humane than British zoo's are there is much more space for the animals (although we didn't see the snake with two heads which was advertised, which come to think of it is probably just to entice naive brits...). Also after two weeks of ordering food that despite being called 'Medium' on the menu would arrive bigger than my entire head it was a relief to get ripped off for tiny inedible pizzas - just like back home.

In the gift shops they have three stalls of keyrings and despite them having one for Jesus they don't have one for Ian or even Quuuaa-ean. Then i remember i don't own the keys to anything anymore.

The sun is baking and san gets really sun burnt. We buy some nifty hats and i get a t-shirt with a picture of a panda on it.

When it is time to go we order a taxi over the phone and another limo turns up. This time it is driven by a young black woman who has two inch manicured finger nails and is wearing massive sunglasses that cover most of her head. "Hi i'm Cindy and i will be your driver today." We both look down at the driver's ID and it reads YOUR DRIVER'S NAME IS DARRELL.