March 17, 2009

A Walk in the Park


It's hard to believe, but the whole time we lived in CA, I never went to Balboa Park. It's beautiful, it's huge, it's amazing! We went there three times in a week, and didn't come close to doing everything.
Here we are at the San Diego Natural History Museum- Braden is opening and closing his jaw, along with the jawbone of the saber-tooth in the case. Roaaaar!!!

They have extensive gardens throughout the park. Trev and I found this giant cactus in the desert garden

This is the Spreckels Organ Pavillion. We stumbled upon a school group demonstration and were lucky enough to hear a short concert. The organ can be heard all over the park- we just followed the sound.

This little hummingbird was buzzing around us in the gardens. He's kind of hard to see, isn't he? I never thought of hummers as being camouflaged!
We also checked out the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Model Railroad Museum. The only problem is that almost everything costs money- when we go back, I'll probably try to save by getting a day pass. We'll be going back for sure!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What great pictures and lots of good fun you had over the week in CA. I took Everett,Daniel and Sheila and Stacy to Sea World in 1985 or 86 when the girls came out to visit us. I would like to see it now and all the changes over the years.