Sunday, July 26, 2009

Day in the park

Today was another beautiful day in San Diego. In my attempt to walk as much as possible, my roommate and I have been going places on Sundays where we can walk around and see stuff without spending alot of money. Today we went to Balboa Park Balboa Park. We spent about four hours and very little money.

When we arrived we parked about halfway up Balboa Drive and crossed the Cabrillo Bridge. From there we went to the Organ Pavillion and down to the International cottages. Each week a different nation's cottage has an open house, sells food and performs traditional dances or music. Today was Lithuania. They were selling sausages, kugells and sauerkraut. Not what we were hungry for.

So we walked back up past the Organ Pavillion to the Japanese Friendship Garden where they have a tea room. Still didn't find anything we wanted. We decided to go ask if there were other places to eat besides The Prado, which is good but not what we were looking to spend. Finally wound up at the SDMA Sculpture Court Cafe which we really enjoyed.

After lunch we rented a surrey and rode around for an hour, got shaved ice and watched a juggling show before returning it. That was so much fun. The surrey is easier to pedal than a bicycle at times, but it's still alot of work going uphill. We had a nice enjoyable ride while we were getting exercise and it was only $20. I definitely want to do that again.

There's so much to see at Balboa Park. I think we'll probably be going alot this Summer.

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