It seems my laziness has gotten the best of me and despite all kinds of free time and plenty of pictures to share, it has taken me nearly 2 weeks to get this post going for our Balboa Park and San Diego Zoo adventures.
Update! Mo is done working at the Children's Museum as of Saturday and I never got to continue working for her dad as things never really got sorted out with the bank. So for the past three weeks I have been doing road trip research, grad school research, and the most fun of all, job searching. History jobs are few and far between and the few applications I have sent out seem to have fallen on deaf ears. I am slowly learning about history masters programs as well as the dreaded GRE. In terms of our road trip we have yet to decide all the specifics such as departure date but we have chosen a route. We will be leaving San Diego, and stopping in Zion National Park (Utah), Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim, Arizona), Mesa Verde National Park (Colorado), Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico), Austin Texas, Natchez Mississippi, Birmingham Alabama, Atlanta Georgia, Colonial Williambsurg (Virginia), Washington DC, New York City, and then Home. The trip covers a little over 4000 miles and about 17 days. We have friends in Austin, Atlanta, Washington, and New York who we thank in advance for easing the budget of the trip. My guess for an arrival date would be somewhere around September 15/16 as we hope to arrange the trip so a weekend lines up with DC and NY. Anywho, I will keep everyone updated as the plans are clarified. On to the pictures!
This first set of pictures comes from our trip to Balboa Park. Balboa Park contains numerous art museums, history museums, international houses, plus all kinds of other funky things. The best thing I can compare it to might be the mall in Washington DC with all the Smithsonian museums and monuments etc. We were drawn to Balboa Park because, not only is it famous and a required tourist destination, but each Sunday one of their international houses gets a festival complete with ethnic food, dancing, and celebration. We were drawn by the tango dancing promised by the Argentinia house which turned out to be dissapointing. We still had a great time though and we plan on going back to see all the things we ran out of time for. The highlights for me were the gigantic koi pond and the model train museum because they reminded me of home and being a little kid. Most of the pictures are from those two things so check 'em out! The link for those pictures is here. --> Balboa Park: Part I
The second set of pictures comes from our trip to the world famous San Diego Zoo! Getting a late start on the day we headed to the Zoo for the evening, planning to stay until they closed at 9pm. We checked out the reptile house with all their snakes and lizards, and then headed off towards the gorillas because we had dinner reservations near them. We passed flamingos and other monkeys on our way and after eating hung out with the bonobos, gazelles, polar bears, and pandas who were adorably asleep. They have a nightly half hour show called Talamasca with singing, acrobatics, and storytelling by some of the animal keepers who have interesting stories. And of course they had adorable pictures of almost every baby animal they had at the zoo. The show ended at closing and we hadn't seen half the zoo so we plan on returning to visit the rest of the animals. Admission was $25 and becoming a member was only another $20 so, since it was cheaper just to become a member, Mo and I both became members of the San Diego Zoo. I'm wicked excited to go back, which we are doing tomorrow! The super awesome pictures from the Zoo are right here. --> San Diego Zoo: Part I
Stay tuned for further updates on our road trip and for pictures of our return trips to the Zoo and Balboa Park. Plus we still hope to get to the USS Midway one of these days.
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