Balboa Park. Awesome. Hundreds of acres filled with museums, parks, and play. We bought a day pass for each of us, which got us into 5 museums within the day. Best part of the trip for me!
Here we pose with the botanical garden and nursery. Shortly after this pic, the Thai people snapping our picture wanted to take a pic with our children to show the folks back at home. We obliged, but kinda funny.
Here we are at the Natural History Museum filled with dinos and natural wonders:
And, this, the biggest letdown of the day (not for the kids, mind you), but for me: The Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater...
I talked Dave into this one for a good long time, before he finally agreed. But good grief! THEE WORST thing ever witnessed by mankind took place in this theater! Two dumb-dumbs, who have no business being on stage, and who are likely homeless threw on a show that I'm sure they never once practiced or even had a script or plot-line for. No. It was that bad. Shameful really. The kids liked it, however, and still quote and giggle about a few tidbits from the show. So we'll still call it a SUCKCESS!
The Model Railroad Museum...AWESOME!
Small, little basement museum, but filled with model trains and a ton of old dudes running the show. Seriously cool. Could have spent hours there.
Reuben H Fleet Science Center:
Kind of a hands-on kiddie, science museum. Wasn't my fave, but they had a cool walkthrough maze-type thing made completely out of packaging tape which was really fun.
The Museum of Man. Maybe my fave. Saw better mummies and things here than at the King Tut exhibit we paid big bucks for in L.A. years ago! Loved this place!
Air and Space Museum:
Fun, little museum. Worth a stop. Kate got some cute earrings, and we got this cute pic of Max...
Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort:
We stayed here two of the nights. We chose this hotel because it was situated right on a beach. They had a nice pool, fire pits, and a fun grassy play area. After all of our museuming, we got back to our hotel, let the kids swim in the pool, and then ate dinner from a nearby pizzeria right on the beach. A picturesque little place for sure.
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