San Diego - 5: Balboa Park, Legoland Part 2, Flying Home

We took another day of "theme park recovery" following SeaWorld. We went for a lovely morning walk out to Crystal Pier. It was fun to watch the surfers do their thing.

Then we packed a picnic lunch and headed over to Balboa Park in downtown San Diego. There are amazing gardens and buildings that now house museums dating from the 1915 Panama-California Exposition that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and increase trade opportunities for California. Each kid identified their favorite rose in the rose garden. It was a beautiful, relaxing day.

We headed back on Friday for day two of Legoland. Probably shouldn't have left it for a Friday because there were definitely more people in the park. But we still found plenty of fun and the kids felt like they got to do all the rides they wanted.

We even had time for a round of mini golf in the afternoon. Both Charlotte and Edison hit hole-in-one shots and have now declared this game a new favorite.

 

Saturday afternoon we headed home. The kids were pretty easy on the flight (probably because each person had a touch screen built into the seat in front of them) and it was a great way to cap off our trip.