Museums in Balboa Park, San Diego

San Diego here we come...ready or not eight Veldstra's and nine Germain's are hitting the big city of San Diego for a week of fun! Before we left on this trip we purchased Go San Diego cards on-line...they were good for entrance for five days into LOTS of museums, San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Legoland, and so much more. So since Tuesday was forecasted for rain we decided to make that the museum day at Balboa Park. Our first stop was at the model train museum...amazing layouts for several different scales of trains. The kids and the parents enjoyed looking at all the detail and work that was put into the model train layouts.


Our next museum of the day was the Aerospace Museum...probably everyone's favorite. It started out with the beginning of flight and continued on through the age of space today. So many originals and replicas of many famous airplanes and space craft from over the ages. I think Steve, Ethan, and Joe probably enjoyed all the aircraft the most, but the rest of us had fun too! There was one area where the younger kids could climb in several airplanes and pretend they were flying too...I think that was the younger eleven kids favorite part of the museum! We all learned alot and all the kids were great troopers!

Our next stop of the day was the motor home with the younger kids and the moms while Steve and Joe took Ethan, Tyler, and Joziah to the Automotive museum. I heard lots of reports of neat cars and motorcycles.

Everyone had a fun day, but we were all worn out at the end of the day and so ready for bed!