New Children's Museum and San Diego

On Thursday 27th March, we went to Hampton Inn to meet Tante Thea and Miss Ronnie.  We had time to talk to Miss Ronnie and say good-bye to her before we left.  Tante Thea came with us to the New Children's Museum.  There were a lot of activities including bubble blowing, climbing ropes which made a sound when you were near the orange balls, making music with kitchen tools, building bridges and walls with bricks made out of dried mushrooms, and lots of other things.  We got to make pot plants made from newspaper in a garden across the road - we had to give them to Tante Thea and Miss Ronnie to take home.

Following that, we walked to the waterfront, and had ice-creams and went on a carousel which was over 100yrs old.  While walking, we saw a pelican and a sea lion or a harbour seal.

After that, we went to a restaurant in Little Italy where we ordered food but 3 of us could not eat all our food so got doggie bags.  I had a 10inch pizza, and only ate half of it tonight.

We took Tatne Thea back to her motel and said good-bye to her, as they go back home tomorrow and we leave San Diego for our next adventure.

Balboa Park

On Monday morning I had to go and see someone (a Nurse Practitioner, a specially trained nurse who is able to write out a lot of prescriptions for medicines) about my bloodshot eyes (she says I have "pink eye" or conjunctivitis - yuck!).  I now have to have eyedrops to help my eyes get better.

After that, we went to Balboa Park where they have heaps of museums and gardens.  We only went to one museum, the Air and Space Museum.  It has the top of Apollo 9, the only flying replica of Charles Lindbergh's plane, the Spirit of St Louis, a Curtiss Robin, a Robinson helicopter which has been cut open for people to sit in, and lots of other planes and helicopters.  It also has a room for kids to play in and to learn about flying.  We also watched a 4D movie about skate-boarding at a skate park in the future.  We had to wear 3D glasses and the seats moved and there were puffs of air to make it seem as if we were skating.

After we left the museum we saw an electric car being charged up, then we went to meet Tante Thea and Miss Ronnie and walk around Balboa Park.  We were able to sail a boat in a fountain.  The boat was made out of rubbish (plastic bottles, plastic bags) by a man.  We also saw a guy skateboarding who was trying to jump down 2 sets of stairs and do a spin over the bottom set.

When we walked through the cactus garden, we saw lots of cactuses, a lizard, a small hummingbird (they are the only bird in the world that can fly backwards).  We saw a man in the garden with very black feet probably, because he did not have a home.

Later on, Karl and I went with Tante Thea and Miss Ronnie to have a sleep-over at their hotel room.  We had lots of fun.