Leila, Fred, Max, brother Dana, and Jiho wait so patiently outside of the venue where the March birthday party was held. We celebrated
the "whole enchilada" for birthday celebrants Leila, Jiho, Mushroom and Sun Hong.

Birthday Club members include (left to right): Sun Hong, Mushroom and Leila. Groupies include Fred and Max. We're waiting for the restaurant to open and practicing being silly before lunch!

A birthday boy can never have too many hats! This is the FIRST mushroom-styled hat Mushroom's ever received. Do you think he likes it?!!!

Birthday celebrants, Sun Hong & Mushroom, as well as nephew Max and bro-in-law Raymond party hearty!

Birthday babe, Leila, and her loving hubby Fred. I met Fred while working at the L. Bch. Naval Stn. Officer's Club in 1972. Mushroom knew him from an art class in '73. Fred gets around!

"I can order eeny theeng that I w-a-n-t! It's my birthday!", said Jose, I mean Jiho.

Isis, Bonnie and Raymond enjoyed lunch with the celebrants!

The Ditzlers, Yoons and Montoyas took in the diverse animals and plants on view at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in March! Here we are waiting to get into see the pandas, one of which was scheduled to return to China by the end of the week. It was the most popular exhibit, and was worth waiting for.

Grandson Edan Bedan found a dinosaur egg to be just the spot to play!

Brother Dana just needs to fill out a few more pounds and become a little bit hairier, and the female gorillas would love to woo him! Dana's 6'-3", so look how much larger the gorilla outline is than he.
This was my favorite photo at the park. The Bird of Paradise flower couldn't have been more perfect, nor the background any prettier. Go, Mother Nature!

A photo can't get much more vertical than this one with the giraffe straining to reach the yummy greens nestled up in the crotch of the tree out on the Wild Animal savanna. S-t-r-e-t-c-h!

Lots of purple and a beautiful wee butterfly right in the middle!

Butterflies on flowers behind rails are hard to shoot without a closeup lens, so next time, I'm bringing mine!