Day 7 - Balboa Park

Yet, another beautiful day in San Diego (but everyone was sad because this is their last full day). Since a park is bound to cheer you up, everyone decided to visit Balboa Park, the nation's largest urban cultural park.

First on the agenda was to see Body World, a traveling exhibit of preserved human bodies and various body parts. These bodies were positioned as if the person were in motion, engaging in activities such as ice skating, hitting a baseball, etc. One of the bodies were split into different sections as it went through a paper shredder. No photos were allowed in the exhibit but Mom gave me more detail about the exhibit than I care to know. Grandmother was a little leery of seeing Body World, however; she and W.H. enjoyed the exhibit the most. Aunt Allison was the narrator of course.

Since there are 15 major museums in the park, everyone decided to split up.

Aunt Allison and Mom went to the Japanese Friendship Garden, seeking some peace and quiet.

As you can seen, Harrison is calm as he strolls through this Zen-filled garden.

Uncle Mark and Dad went to the Automotive Museum, displaying over 80 classic and historically significant cars and motorcycles. However, Dad was slightly disappointed in this exhibit.

Then, the five of them went to the Model Train Museum, which is the world's largest operating model railroad museum. There were so many different model trains that this picture does not capture it all.

Uncle Mark and Harrison sure did enjoy it.

Well, I bet you are wondering what W.H. and Grandmother did during this time. They went to an exhibit about Leonardo da Vinci. (More on this exhibit later.)

I feel sorry for Harrison. It's exhausting providing the entertainment.

He does not seem to mind it though.

Here's Mom and Dad in front of one of the fountains at Balboa Park.

Aunt Allison and Uncle Mark in front of one of the many historic buildings.

To cool off, everyone decided to go to the Gas Lamp District for some ice cream.

Gelato to be exact.

Harrison ate the majority of Aunt Allison's because she was the only person willing to share. Everyone else was too busy being selfish, eating it all. Mom and Dad said it was delicious!

Ice cream and a day at the park - life could not get any better than this.

Too bad all good things must come to an end.