Balboa Park

Sunday morning and we had time to waste before meeting with Mary & Katie at Cabrillo National Monument.  We decided to visit Balboa Park for a few hours, didn't want to sit in the motel and do nothing.  At first we were trying to figure out how to take the little train to the park.  Mom had remembered that the train would pick you up by the hotels, but that is not the case now.  The hotel will shuttle you to where you can catch the train.  If you rode the train from stop to stop it would take you about 2 hours.  We decided to skip this option due to our time frame, so we just drove to Balboa Park.

Finding a parking space was pretty easy, not too much traffic out.  Mom said on Saturday the parking lots were very full.  We just wandered around and looked at things.  There is a Japanese Garden that would be fun to go through, but they are doing construction so some things were off limits.  Will have to visit when construction is complete.

We walked around, looked at the very interesting buildings.  I'm going to have to find out what kind of architecture that the buildings are so ornately decorated.  We did want to go through a museum but the admission price was $17 per person.  That seemed a bit pricy to me for the little time that we would spend, so we went through the free botanical garden.  It was fun walking through and looking at all the flowers with their colors and lines. 

We spent about three hours in the park, took a coke break at the Japanese Garden area, then we made our way to Cabrillo.  By this time the parking lots were pretty full and more people were out and about.  We had fun.  Made it to Cabrillo and met up with the others.

Here are some photos of our short visit to Balboa Park.