Balboa Park

Balboa Park is just so awesome.  It makes it even greater when you have fabulous weather like we had. 
This was the Walters' final day in San Diego, but we still made the most of it.  After a hearty continental breakfast at our hotel. Did I mention how good the breakfast was at our hotel?  Well, it was way better than expected. It was yummy.

At the museum

Enjoying the greenery

Once we arrived to the park, it was hard to decide what to do.  So we walked around for a while and enjoyed the greenery.  We checked out some of the buildings, lost my children a couple of times.  Yeah, that was a bit of a scare for a paranoid mom like me.

A place Kristen was really liking was the Artisan's Corner...or something like that.  These are shops/galleries ran by the artists and you can see them working on their creations.  That was neat.  While, we were shopping, Newel took some of the kids to ride the mini train.

Then, we decided to check out a museum...or did we first go to the museum and then the Artist Corner.  I can't remember the order of things.  It's a good thing I'm writing this now, otherwise, I might not remember this at all next week.

I think it was the Natural History.  Anyways, it was pretty cool.  I specially liked the decomposing beetle infested gorilla skull.  No really, I thought it was interesting.

Later, the kids went on the historical Merry-go-round.  One of my most enjoyable moments was watching Arden trying to grab a ring from a stick end.  It's a game they have at the ride. If you grab a brass ring, then you got to ride again for free.  He was not able to grab one.  He missed it several times, by centimeters.  However, I really liked watching his drive. He was so close and he was such a good sport afterward.

Posing for the cameras

It was getting late, so we had to leave the Walters at the parking lot while they took the road back home and we headed into Mexico for the next part of our adventure.