San Diego Zoo & Padres Baseball Game

I got into San Diego at 11PM yesterday. Until I got my bag and took a cab to the AEPi house it was 12:30. We chilled for a while and talked AEPi. We were also told about this fast food burger place called In-N-Out - but more on that later. We were told we MUST eat there.

When we woke up we started making our way to the zoo. When we got there, we found a security check where we could check our bags, which was amazing. We had to carry everything we had because we were not staying the night in San Diego. Stoop had been to the zoo the day before, so we didn't see everything. The highlights were the polar bears eating (but unfortunately they didn't go swimming), the gorillas jumping around, and the Galapagos turtle, who came right up the rail and I was able to pet.

After the zoo we went to find out how we would be getting to Santa Barbara later in the evening. We were going to the San Diego Padres vs. San Francisco Giants baseball game, and we needed to find a Greyhound bus that left as late as possible. Our 2 options were an 11PM bus that would get us there at 5:45AM, or a 1:30AM bus that would arrive at 10:30AM. We decided we would try and make the 11PM bus because we did not want to stop over in Los Angeles for 4 hours.

We headed down to the game where we had an opportunity to see a piece of baseball history. Barry Bonds only needed 1 home run to tie Hank Aaron for the most career home runs with 755. When he got up to bat, everyone started cheering for him to hit the homer. When the action started, you could see thousands of camera flashes in the hopes of catching a piece of history. I decided to join in on the action and take video of his at bat. On the 3rd pitch of the at bat, Barry took a swing and the ball jumped off his bat, and you knew that was going over the fence. Everyone was cheering. This was definitely a very cool moment that I was randomly a part of. On the night Bonds went 1 for 1 with 1 home run and 3 walks. Since the Padres did not want to give him the record breaking, they walked him 3 times. We left the game when it was tied 2-2 after the 9th inning to catch our bus. Eventually, San Diego won 3-2 in the 12th. Bonds was taken out of the game in the 7th and replaced by a pinch runner, but had he still been in the game, we would have had to stay in case he did hit another home run.

We got to the bus on time and confirmed the bus was going to LA, where we would make our connection. We were the only two non-Mexicans on the bus and we had a feeling the bus was headed south - to Mexico. Approximately 1 hour into the bus ride, we pulled over on the highway next to a sign that said 'US Border Patrol'. The driver got off the bus, and at this point, Stoop and I though we are definitely screwed. This story continues tomorrow.