I promise!

I will get back to blogging regularly, I promise! Eep!
I was in San Diego this past week visiting Sam and it was lovely! Now, I know San Diego is not th The Middle of Nowhere and I did have computer access, but I just wanted to enjoy the vacation and not worry about much else. And, I did! We lounged around on the beach, went to the Wild Animal Park (pictures to follow), played Wii Sports, went to the beach some more, and generally had a great time. It was so beautiful down there, and really nice to spend time with him and his family.
The Wild Animal Park was awesome! The park is structured in essentially two parts, a zoo-like section when you first walk in and the 1600 acre reserve section where the animals literally just roam freely about...its amazing. Sam and I payed a couple of extra bucks to take a tram ride around the reserve section of the park and boy was it worth it! Besides separating the predators from the herbivores, the Park pretty much lets the animals just run free. Though they have their own territories that they have defined, they essentially all overlap with each other, free of fences or barriers or anything. They get to truly behave like they're in the wild, which helps not only their mental health, i'd imagine, but with the transition back into the wild if such a transition is planned. The park gets between 300 and 500 animal births a year--pretty much at least a birth a day!--and we got to see a gazelle that was only just a couple of hours old. I'll upload my pictures tomorrow...I got some really good ones!
So, since coming back from San Diego on Friday I've pretty much done nothing, which is both lovely and a bit boring. I did some more shopping with my mom--always lovely--and helped her get ready for a fancy dinner she and my dad went to tonight. I'm also in the middle of reading a couple of books and have been watching my share of crap TV. I tried to read some of the Animorphs series that I loved so much as a kid today, but I couldn't find the box where we stored them all...I'll probably try again tomorrow.
Time to try to sleep now. Take care!