Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas

Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas

Lead the way Shamu ~ Shamu sat on our dashboard and led us safely on our journey.

In the car ~ she had her own map to see for herself

"if we were there yet"

A hot Bill & Hannah in 104 degrease F. heat of Las Vegas

Outside of the LUXOR in Las Vegas
 

Waiting for real Mexican food ~ in Old Town San Diego

Looking out over Pacific Beech. Just a few blocks from our hotel in San Diego

This and the next 4 pictures are from Pacific beach

Welcome to the Hotel Del Coronado.

Steve ~ thank you for setting up such a great walking tour of Coronado. This is a link to some of the great history of this beautiful place: http://www.inetours.com/San_Diego/Coronado.html

This is the house in Coronado that L. Frank Baum wrote stories about the Land of Oz, (" The Wizard of Oz ") some of which were written in and inspired by Coronado.

Coronado beach

Steve driving over the Coronado bridge with beautiful; San Diego in the background.

Walking into Balboa Park - the nation's largest urban cultural park. Home to 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues, beautiful gardens and the San Diego Zoo, the Park has an ever-changing calendar of museum exhibitions, plays, musicals, concerts, and classes—all in the beautiful and timeless setting of this must-see San Diego attraction.

This is a link to its home page: http://www.balboapark.org/

Lily pond in front of the Botanical Building in Balboa park.

Botanical Building in Balboa park.

The Botanical Building plantings include more than 2,100 permanent plants, featuring fascinating collections of cycads, ferns, orchids, other tropical plants, and palms.

This is a link about the Botanical Gardens:

http://www.balboapark.org/in-the-park/detail.php?OrgID=41

Fountain in Balboa park

It is all about the V-8 Baby :-)

The Air & Space Museum covers five centuries of aviation history,
demonstrating the remarkable progress of manned flight with more than 60 aircraft and space vehicles on display.

This is a link about the Air $ Space Museum:

http://www.balboapark.org/in-the-park/detail.php?OrgID=14

Spreckels Organ Pavilion
John D. and Adolph Spreckels donated the Spreckels Organ, one of the world's largest outdoor pipe organs, to the City of San Diego in 1914 for the Panama-California Exposition. This unique organ contains 4,530 pipes ranging in length from the size of a pencil to 32 feet and is housed in an ornate vaulted structure with highly embellished gables. Since 1917, San Diego has had a civic organist, who performs free weekly Sunday concerts.

http://www.balboapark.org/in-the-park/detail.php?OrgID=75

A great night at PETCO field to watch a Padres game. Thank you Steven for the tickets and great seats. :-)

42,445 people that day :-)

A sold out game with the Houston Astros.

Padres lost by 1 point ~ it was a great game.

Zoo's Wild Animal Park for the next 6 pictures

Steven paid for nectar so Hannah could feed the Lorikeets.

A trainer petting one of the Big cats (from our train tour)

Grouchy white tiger ~ he was hot and not in the mood.

This was from a trolley tour of San Diego that Steve set up for us ~ 2 hours of great history.

Thank you Steven for all the great memories :-)