Balboa Park

Lin, Ella B, Beast Mode
Jun 6, 2018
3 min read

Adventure Stop #23: Balboa Park: San Diego, CA

Lindsey: Any sane person would have hopped in the car to get to one of the largest parks on the planet thinking that you would be too tired to see things once you walked 1.5 - 2 miles just to get there...well, not only am I not completely sane but I often don't think things through very well. This def. happened and the human bear was great while the stuffed bear got sweaty and quiet but we all made it alive!

Any time I think I know what is going to be really exciting for a six year old, I am drastically mistaken. This was highly entertaining that we were walking on a bridge next to a major highway while simultaneously going over an interstate (we could have turned around to come back home right then and there and she would have been satisfied for the day). I guess it is pretty interesting when you think about it and especially when you're standing IN the death trap itself with cars whizzing by.

Finally, the park! Another thing I love about this place is that we did not spend a dime and still got to see so many cool things. Ella wants to go back for a 3D movie at the Museum of Natural History and to see a play at The Old Globe Theater. Now, without wasting any money, we saw great views and I can check in to those and if they are expensive we will never speak of them again b/c she will be on to the next thing. haha until she reads this one day and probably fusses at me.

The Redwood Circle!

After our walk, we needed a break so we sat down and watched a game of lawn bowling. I want to have enough money one day to be able to spend my hours from 8 - 10 am on a weekday playing lawn bowling in Balboa Park (I guess that's pretty much what we are already doing so I am in NO way complaining)!

Ella, "Oh I wish I could have lived there before they turned it into a butterfly garden!" Me "When it was a nudist colony?" Ella, "YES!" hahaha She will keep you laughing folks. Apparently clothes are just too restrictive for the human bear.

The Rose Gardens: Don't we look just like twins? I also got a "Geaux Tigers" from a man in an SEC shirt. What is not to love here?

Sorry Shreveport, your rose garden center is no longer so impressive:(

I know there are many, many things that make my soul happy but The Old Globe Theater is definitely one I fell in love with years ago. I love me some Shakespeare (after teaching middle school ELA for 10 years you've got to have a love for something and Shakespeare and poetry are my jams). So glad for this spot because I got to sit smack in front of it as I taught the human bear that "Gnomeo and Juliet" is actually NOT the original. I need to step up my game in the ELA teaching department apparently.

Ella "look, an LSU flower!" Good thing I was wearing my hat.

Just b/c you don't see a cactus everyday and then one that looks like this deserves to be documented.

Me: "Oh S&$%T!" when I realized those building WAY in the background are in downtown San Diego, where we now have to walk back to and the human bear was DONE walking so it's piggy back time.

I have no idea how many hours we were gone, but Ella is already asking to go back to the park...not sure she really means it...The human and stuffed bears are about to pass out!