Sunday, September 01, 2013

Balboa Park

With so many places to choose from, we settled on Balboa Park to spend the day because it probably had the most options for my easily-bored kids.  Located next to San Diego Zoo, the park is enormous!  We spent most of our time walking around, but discovered a couple places, like International Cottages and Zoro Garden, where the kids had so much fun.  It was a hot day (we always seem to visit San Diego during heat waves), but we managed to stay cool for the most part.   

Watching the kids play and planes flying by


Sophie posing with her plumerias that we got at the plumeria festival in front of the Botanical Building and Lily Pond


The girls went into cottages of various nations to get an ethnic goodie.  Our first cottage was "China" and the kids were happy with their fortune cookies, but then other nations had homemade cookies, crepes, strudles, etc, which made China look bad.


We briefly watched a performance at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, which has one of the world's largest outdoor pipe organs.


 
We didn't want to pay admission to the Japanese garden, so here's a view overlooking the garden


 
The girls cooled off at the Bea Evenson Fountain


The Casa del Prado Theatre


Waiting for butterflies to land on their fingers at Zoro Garden


Hunting butterflies


It's the simple things that bring the most happiness

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