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roaming_kate23) wrote2021-03-14 09:58 am
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[Balboa Park]
I randomly had a memory jogged(if you have to know it was jogged by something that I saw..) in any case I WAS going to talk about the Museum Of Man in Balboa Park. But then I decided to cover all of the park!
But we’ll start at Museum Of Man and work from there.One of my favourite things about the Museum Of Man was the lady who made fresh tortillas-with lots of butter-over in one corner.LOVED those-if we we went there for a field trip we’d always bring extra money -yeah, they were THAT good!
If you like views, park at the Hillcrest-adjacent side of the park and walk across the Cabrillo bridge-there’s a view out to downtown and the Coronado bridge.Also if you’re on the right hand side of the street, you go right by the dog park where there are always dogs running around (especially in the summer when my dad and I go to plays at the Old Globe..also on the route is the campanile(bell tower) which was open for tours for a while and which, when you got to the top had a view in every direction.I didn’t get the chance to do that-they have been retrofitting so it’s closed now-for good, unfortunately. The park dates back to the early 20th century so they’ve had to go through and retrofit.
Keep walking and you pass the Museum Of Art(which is amazing) and the Museum Of Modern Art(their sculpture garden is right next to the Old Globe.) Speaking of things I could do whole other posts on..The Old Globe is one.
Then there’s the Prado, which has really good food(and if you don’t want to wait for a table you can go to the bar.They have a limited menu but you should be able to find *something*)
Fleet Science Centre was a popular field trip when I was a kid-they have an IMAX theatre(for field trips it was always a combination of the science centre and IMAX which, being a nerdy child,I loved.They’ve redone it a LOT over the years (the better for future generations of school kids or even people who are just visiting from out of town.It’s someplace I would highly recommend.
Just briefly I’m going to mention a few things:
The carousel and the train ride(closer to the zoo than the Science Centre). I LOVED the carousel as a kid-it was pretty fast (so is the one at Seaport Village IIRC) and it was THRILLING to young me. So was the train ride.
Ashamed to admit I had never been to the Japanese friendship garden until quite recently.It’s a nice walk down a path and even on a hot day(like it was when we were there) it was plenty shady.
But we’ll start at Museum Of Man and work from there.One of my favourite things about the Museum Of Man was the lady who made fresh tortillas-with lots of butter-over in one corner.LOVED those-if we we went there for a field trip we’d always bring extra money -yeah, they were THAT good!
If you like views, park at the Hillcrest-adjacent side of the park and walk across the Cabrillo bridge-there’s a view out to downtown and the Coronado bridge.Also if you’re on the right hand side of the street, you go right by the dog park where there are always dogs running around (especially in the summer when my dad and I go to plays at the Old Globe..also on the route is the campanile(bell tower) which was open for tours for a while and which, when you got to the top had a view in every direction.I didn’t get the chance to do that-they have been retrofitting so it’s closed now-for good, unfortunately. The park dates back to the early 20th century so they’ve had to go through and retrofit.
Keep walking and you pass the Museum Of Art(which is amazing) and the Museum Of Modern Art(their sculpture garden is right next to the Old Globe.) Speaking of things I could do whole other posts on..The Old Globe is one.
Then there’s the Prado, which has really good food(and if you don’t want to wait for a table you can go to the bar.They have a limited menu but you should be able to find *something*)
Fleet Science Centre was a popular field trip when I was a kid-they have an IMAX theatre(for field trips it was always a combination of the science centre and IMAX which, being a nerdy child,I loved.They’ve redone it a LOT over the years (the better for future generations of school kids or even people who are just visiting from out of town.It’s someplace I would highly recommend.
Just briefly I’m going to mention a few things:
The carousel and the train ride(closer to the zoo than the Science Centre). I LOVED the carousel as a kid-it was pretty fast (so is the one at Seaport Village IIRC) and it was THRILLING to young me. So was the train ride.
Ashamed to admit I had never been to the Japanese friendship garden until quite recently.It’s a nice walk down a path and even on a hot day(like it was when we were there) it was plenty shady.