San Diego

Up early 5.30 the clocks having gone back another hour. Everybody had to be checked by US immigration no problem despite the worries as ship staff had printed the Istas.
 Breakfast in lido then waited in 4027 for the 9.30 call and we got an Uber, Marcus who was chatty  to take us the few blocks to Kimpton hotel Palomar 5th avenue.location gaslamp quarter right near trolley stop. To Old Town state park and saw houses, carriages, Wells Fargo coaches, court house and school. Most interesting. Ate tuna salad at I'm hungry with pink prickly peer lemonade. Then to the original mission. Lovely church and gardens. No museum as holiday Presidents day and flags at halfmast? Quite a walk but worth it. Wine at hotel and ate at De Medici expensive but delicious seafood ravioli in pink vodka sauce. At bar while waiting tried a James Bond martini. Cold wind. Wait to get bill. Exhausted. Woke 1.30 and 3.40.

A great day at San Diego Zoo. Breakfast at Brian's 24 in 6th avenue. Met a couple going on Azania cruise and a couple who had been on our cruise. delicious bacon waffle and Liz had French toast with blueberries. Bus tour was   good after queue. Koalas and talk, new African rocks with baboons, geladas, bateleur, hyrax, klipspringer, ibex, lemurs, monkeys, penguins with leopard sharks, queue for pandas very long so skipped it, young baboon, giraffe and hippo. Okapi, Malayan tiger, fishing cat, Malayan tapirs, sky safari, polarbears, gerenuk, bontebok, leopard, 4 elephant, secretary bird, flamingos, reindeer. Had corndog. Bus back to town. Wine at hotel.  Couple on our flight. Crabhut messy, beer, cinammon doughnuts with icecream. Checked in.