Day Five

Day five! We started out with a free breakfast - just the way we like our breakfasts! If I haven't already said so, you really need to be staying at Embassy Suites if you can when you travel. They are so nice! Not only do they have a free hot breakfast, they also have a little happy hour with not very good drinks. Since it was our last day in San Diego, we figured we ought to hit the beach. So we drove over the Coronado Bridge to Coronado Island (which I don't think is an actual island) and stopped to play in the water.
As you can see from the picture below, I thought it was freezing. But it was still fun walking on the beach!
I decided that we needed one picture of our feet in the sand, but I wanted to go to the sand where it was nice and fluffy. It was 8000 degrees! Seriously, I couldn't believe how warm the sand was. So we snapped a quick picture before darting back to the cooler patch.
After Coronado, we decided that we wanted to check out the rest of Balboa Park. For everyone who doesn't know, Balboa Park is this big park in the middle of San Diego that contains the San Diego Zoo, as well as multiple other museums and a botanical garden. A botanical garden that was free and we wanted to go and it was closed on Thursdays! So we took a picture of the outside:
We did end up going to a musuem in Balboa Park, but didn't end up taking any pictures there. It was the San Diego Natural History Museum and was pretty interesting. There were a lot of fossils and there were these pretty cool pictures in the Aerial Portraits of the American West exhibit. All the pictures were taken by John Shelton and were taken out of a place, so they really showed the land. You should go to the link to see some examples of his photography.

After the museum, we headed back to the hotel to get cleaned up before our last dinner in San Diego. We decided we wanted Italian, so we chose Buca di Beppo and were disappointed when we found out it was a huge chain restaurant. At least we don't have them in Boise, so it was new to us. Mat and I just usually would rather go to a restaurant that is local to the area. It was pretty good and there was way too much food for us both. Then we headed back to the hotel to get some good old fashioned sleep before we headed out to Los Angeles the next day!

(Click on the first picture for all our pictures from Day Five!)