Balboa Park

It was a gray day but we decided to brave it to go to Balboa Park.  It is a beautiful area with many old buildings, flower gardens, museums, etc.  Here is one of the walkways.

Here are Bette, Jim, me, Gene, and Syrena walking up to the Botanical Gardens building.

 

There are water gardens leading up to the building.

There were lots of water plants and carp.

It almost looks like the rain forest inside with many varieties of flowers.

I have never seen this flower before but it was beautiful.

Here is the ornate entrance to one of the many museums.

There are many Buskers working the avenues.  The man above the crowd was on a unicycle.  We stopped to watch for a while.

 

There was a group from a bird rescue group working the crowd as well.  They had several large birds with them.

 

The young man on the left is showing Bette, Jim, me, and Gene one of the smaller birds.

This bell tower and dome can be seen from many parts of the city.

As we were waiting to leave the organ in the building at the end of this street started playing the wedding march and we got to observe a wedding taking place in this unique setting.

Our van picked us up and took us back to the hotel.  After dinner at the hotel Gene, Syrena, and I went shopping for some warmer clothes to wear tomorrow.  It was 62 degrees all day today and breezy.