March Field air Museum

To celebrate Gordon's birthday we went to a place he has been wanting to go for a long time, the March Field Air Museum. Gordon is a pilot and likes airplanes..... so he was in heaven here!

Captive, reading the history of the activities of each airplane before they were bought here.
Airplanes here have play and important role in history.

This is the B-17 that flew in Europe with England dropping
bombs over Germany

B-25 Mitchell. Same type of airplane in the Doolittle raid on Japan.
They flew the plane off an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan a few months after Pearl Harbor.

Early fuel air tanker

SR-71. Fastest thing in the sky -- or used to be.

This is the largest airplane. Longest serving aircraft the US still uses -- B-52

Gordon looking inside

Atomic bombs were carried inside here before dropped

Gordon did ride in one of this kind when he was in aviation school at PUC

A Day at Balboa Park - Ethnic Food, Garden and the Zoo

We visited Balboa Park about three weeks ago and had the greatest day! There was an Ethnic Food Fair, cultural music and cultural dances that day. They had a stage in the middle of all the food booths area with a full schedule of entrenchment one after the other all day long.

Our favorite was guitar music

There were also all kinds of dances

There was an Ethnic Food Fair.
Hundreds of countries had their own booth selling their typical food.
We ate at the house of Lebanon.

Enjoying the flowers at one of the Balboa Park gardens

The flowers were just beautiful!

We also enjoyed a complete organ concert. This organ is huge and is outdoors. Pretty neat:-)
After the concert, they lead us in a short tour of the inside of the organ. Impressive!

Us enjoying the organ concert. They have umbrellas to protect us from the sun while enjoying the organ music.

We also visited the zoo. The zoo is also in Balboa Park.
The zoo is very big, so we were only able to visit one section before it closed and 5pm.
Following are just a few pictures of the zoo animals.

The elephants were great. It was feeding time so they were busy eating.

Lot's a fur for a camel. This is because this camels are from South America.
I did not know that there were camels native of South America

This camel was walking around staring at me.

I never been in such a close approximation to zebras. They were so close that I was able to appreciate how beautiful they are.

The hipos were swimming so close that people felt like reaching out and try to touch them.

They have great birds exhibit in this cages that are so big that people are in the cages with the birds. This bird was giving us a show.