Torrential Downpour

Monday we planned on going to Sea World or Legoland but there were threatening clouds in the sky. The woman on the phone at Sea World said there were blue out her window so we headed that direction. By the time we arrived, it was a torrential downpour. Tons of people sat in their cars debating whether or not to pay the exorbetant prices to get totally soaked in the park. We decided we were tired of being wet and headed for Balboa Park where we could go to the Natural History Museum and other indoor attractions.

It was much more low key and the kids still had a great time.

 

Of course, when we left the Natural History Museum we questioned our decision since the sun was so bright that my NW kids had to hide their eyes. 

 

We ate a lovely lunch outside the Japanese Friendship garden. Fabulous bento and curry that was the best food we'd had on the trip thus far. 

We spent the afternoon at the Air & Space Museum. The kids had a fabulous time.

That evening Mark went to his conference. It took forever to get everyone to sleep in the hotel room. In fact, I was still working on it when Mark came back from his meetings. When everyone was finally down, Mark & I went down to the hotel restaurant just to have some adult time for a few minutes. Unfortunately, Pax spent several hours completely awake in the middle of the night. It was awful! Total exhaustion!

(Sidenote: A little over a month ago we switched from Comcast to Qwest internet, mostly to save on cost, but with the promise that we would have much faster internet speeds. I'M NOT SEEING IT! It is taking forever to upload all these photos. What a pain!)