Spent a few hours at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park with the Holden family. Went to walk around in general, but to see the Butterfly Jungle exhibit in particular. Bought me a bright yellow SpongeBob t-shirt first. Butterflies loved it.<\/p>\n
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Spent a few hours at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park with the Holden family. Went to walk around in general, but to see the Butterfly Jungle exhibit in particular. Bought me a bright yellow SpongeBob t-shirt first. Butterflies loved it. (pics to come)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14,59,26,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-1Aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6012,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/16\/first-ever-tweet-up-at-the-safari-park\/","url_meta":{"origin":6102,"position":0},"title":"First Ever Tweet-Up At The Safari Park","date":"April 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park with my mom for their first ever Tweet-up. Today's theme was Butterfly Jungle. 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