On Friday, March 19th, we went to check out Balboa Park. After parking we walked into an outdoor theater which turned out to be the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, featuring the world's largest outdoor pipe organ. They were reading children stories with the organ as an enhancement to the stories.
Much of the park's look and feel today is due to the development done for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition held here to commemorate the completion of the Panama Canal.
It was built using a highly ornamented Spanish Revival style, an eclectic mixture of Spanish and Latin American architecture which is richly ornamented as you see below.
Debbie and I were going to visit the Museum of Photographic Arts located in one of the building along El Prado, a long, wide promenade running through the center of the park.
We also dropped in to the Botanical Garden to take in their amazing Easter Lily Display.
After walking around Balboa Park we headed to Old Town and the Old Town Mexican Cafe. This is a wildly popular place and you have to get there early to beat the rush or in our case early for dinner and late for lunch. We were seated right away!
Inside to the left or right of the restaurant were women making the tortillas by hand on a huge and very hot griddle. Chips and salsa were brought to the table right away and our waitress brought us our drinks rather quickly. As we waited for our food, mariachis near another table were singing La Bamba and La Cucaracha. I tried the enchiladas which were amazingly delicious. The sauce was perfectly blended and went well with the pork inside the freshly made tortilla.
Tomorrow we’ll check out Campland on the Bay to see what that RV park looks like.
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