On Saturday, March 20th, we drove a few miles over to another RV park, Campland on the Bay. It’s an old park well know and popular with RV’ers. I took a few pictures but it’s not very photogenic. Kinda well worn and run down. The only advantage I saw over where we’re staying is its a lot quieter. Glad we’re not paying at least twice as much a night to stay here.
This is a water front site. The view includes about fifty yard of mud flat to the water’s edge. I guess the tide was out.
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.
Thursday the 18th Debbie and I went to the San Diego Zoo. The weather was clear and sunny and in the 70 degree range. We arrived a few minutes after they opened at 9am, ahead of the crowd. We boarded the first tour bus and went on the tour which goes around the zoo. After about forty-five minutes we were dropped off back at the entrance, crowd now in full bloom. We now had an idea what we wanted to see and kind of which direction to go. I took about a million pictures but I won’t make you look through them in the blog. We ended up at the far end of the zoo and were able to take a gondola ride back to go. Below we are coming in for a landing.
The Zoo had an unadvertised special; Margaritas! Debbie is all smiles as she discovered the stand. We grabbed lunch in one of the “restaurants” eating outside under the umbrellas and watched parents trying to feed the kids and themselves. Times like this are when its good to be old enough to have grown kids.
After the zoo we drove out to Cabrillo National Monument. The view of San Diego and the harbor. Lots of sailboats.
Officers quarters and a modern light house on the point. Its good to be king.
Next we visit the zoo.
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