La Quinta Inn San Diego Rancho Penasquitos

Ok, here I go... This is the blog page for my trip to South America. For those of you bored enough to log on, I will try my best to keep my blogs and pictures up to date. I'll also try to keep the material interesting. Tomorrow is the big day and I am quite excited, why ...

... Palestine to France and many more. My kids especially are looking forward to attending some theatrical and musical performances by the San Diego Junior Theater and San Diego Civic Youth Ballet. And yes I forgot to add, the best part is actually free visit to all the museums. For two days visitors can visit all the museums free of cost in Balboa park. Now isn't it icing on the cake.

... scary as anything at Disneyland or Knottsberry Farm - geared for a much younger crowd.

Anyway am just going to post pics and videos and that's it, then to bed!
We fly out tomorrow evening...sad to be leaving but will be great to be in our own beds again.

Goodbye USA, until we meet again.

The Alvrez Family

... Luckily it was open, despite the fact that it was Thanksgiving day and 6:00 p.m. It stayed open until 8:00, which gave us enough time to explore all the ships. The ships were the San Salvador, which was the first ship to reach the west coast of America, the Star of India, which is the oldest sailing ship still afloat, the HMS Surprise, which was used for the filming of Masater and Commander ...

Many folks have asked us about our impressions of the USA after living in Mexico. Since Facebook only allows 2 line posts, and it would be too long for Amigas, I figured I'd go ahead and write a blog here. It's not really a travel blog, since we don't plan on going anywhere else right now. But for what it's worth, here it is.

Overall, we are very excited to be back in the USA. When we left over 3 years ago we were fed up with many things about the USA ...

Day 12 - San Diego, CA

Today was our first day staying put in one city for the entire day! Splendid! We were really happy about this since we really like San Diego.

Here is what we did:
- Started out by getting Mexican pastries at Panchitas Bakery. This place is amazing!!! They have nearly 100 different pastries, all homemade every morning. You get a silver platter and a set of tongs, and just grab stuff. Best ...

... schwimmende Sushis sehen. (Nicht mein Spruch!) Zuerst kann ich gerade zur berühmtesten Show gehen, die Orka Show. Es ist super witzig und es gibt einen Spruch der mir beonderst gefällt hat: "Every who sit in the first 16th seat row will get wet! So you can`t say we didn`t warn you!" Nachdem stehen erst mal viele Frauen auf um sich nach hinten zu begeben. Ausser eine blonde Tusse, die sicher ...

Sooooooo.... we spent the next week with the Pacific ocean on our right driving a big Buick San Diego bound. We spent the first night out of the city in a beautiful converted lighthouse, now part of Hostelling International, in Half Moon Bay, a couple of hours south of San Francisco. It was wonderful to finally go to sleep to the sound of the ocean. No cars, no radios, no coughs and no ...

... stop Fiji! Only 3 hours flight from Auckland but, importantly, due North towards the equator and away form winter. I threw away my fleece and tracksuit bottom in excitement. As soon as I opened my citronella I was reminded so strongly of Asia: it was hot, the roads were bad and the buses played loud videos as they careened over potholes and woke you from a doze. Fijian people are lovely friendly and smiley, everyone calls out "Bula, bula" as you walk along ...

... Rose handily, putting any hopes for a win for Rose out of reach by scoring 86 points with a double-double word score on a "bingo" (a word that uses all 7 tiles for a 50 point bonus). There will obviously need to be many more games over the next week and a half! Saturday was a beautifully warm, sunny day - took Mom for a walk up to the Swap Meet here at the park, we relaxed in the sun most of the afternoon ...