A Day of Museums

This picture was taken at the last exhibit we visited, the Chinese Friendship Garden...we had a wonderful time on our little "honeymoon" and look forward to visiting San Diego again...

This was my absolute favorite exhibit of any that we viewed in our two days at Balboa Park. I have always loved this painting, and was very excited to be close enough to touch it.

The Museum of Natural History was a disappointment to both of us. There weren't very many exhibits, and we happened to visit on Free Tuesday...so there were tons of people, but we still enjoyed the dinosaurs like T-Rex...

This is an actual "Tucker" that we were able to see at the Car Museum.

This is a replica of the Red Baron's plane. Though this is a replica, we were able to view the actual gun that was attached to his plane, along with many of his medals.

The Air and Space museum was one of my personal favorites...I had dreamed as a child of traveling to the moon, and though I didn't make it...it is so cool to be this close to an actual suit that traveled in space.

This is a rhino bank....if you know me, you know I love anything rhino...

There were many museums and exhibits that we viewed on our last day in San Diego. We both really liked the egg-men...little Japanese men made from real eggs.

The San Diego Zoo

This was my favorite animal in the whole zoo!!!...the one on the right....

We waited in line for about 20 minutes in the sun, but the panda's were worth it...they were smaller than I thought, but really sweet....

The meerkat's were really cute...they were so energetic....just darling....

Today we visited the San Diego Zoo. This is the first animal we visited, and has always been one of my personal favorites...

Two famous San Diegans & me

My man C3PO and me...

San Diego Museum of Man

Well our first full day in San Diego was wonderful. We spent the day at the Balboa Park, visiting the grounds and the Museum of Man. Jim was a real trooper, the first museum we visited had an exhibit on the Mayan people, which coincidentally I am starting to teach my history students, and I went crazy with the "take a picture of this and that"...when we were done he had taken 103 pictures...(three weren't of the exhibit).

Tomorrow we are going back to Balboa park to visit the San Diego Zoo...

Honeymoon!

Well, this day is finally here....Jim and I are leaving for San Diego this morning for our honeymoon....yes we waited a little while for the honeymoon...but we are both very excited to get away from our daily lives to visit San Diego.

We plan on visiting the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, and maybe the Wild Animal Park...along with the beach and who knows what else.

Amy has bravely consented to taking care of all of our fish...no small undertaking on her part.

The next time we meet I should be in San Diego, where I hear the high temperature will be 60 degrees...Whooppeeee!!!!! I get to wear my hoodies.....

TTFN (ta ta for now)