So after the very busy week, were were down to our last days in town. We decided to spend Saturday at Balboa park checking out the museums before heading to the San Diego Padres baseball game with cousin Matt that night. We were leaving early on Sunday to fly back home, so we had to head home after the game to get some rest.

So we decided to start our day out with a sort of adventure. We were staying in a hotel in Old Town, and we had already made it to the Old Town Transit Station on our second day in town. We figured that instead of getting a taxi, we were just going to try and walk to the Transit Station, hop on a bus to get downtown, and hopefully end up at Balboa Park. Well, it wasn't that easy. But you know, we are cheap, and were stubborn enough to want to see if we could do it without a taxi.

We got to the Transit Station fine, but then had to figure out which color of train we needed to catch. Yep, that's right, we had to wait for the right color. Not a direction, not a destination, a stinkin color. So blue it was. We hopped on our pretty blue train that was planning on getting somewhere downtown, but we really weren't sure where, but some guy told us to get off at College station, or something like that. So we did, but then we didn't really know where to go from there. So like any respectable tourist, we went to the nearest store, went inside, and asked someone where Balboa park was. They told us that it was "about a mile walk that way", followed by a vague direction hand wave. So yeah, we just decided to start walking. Lucky enough, we were able to spot a sign for Balboa park about a block into our trip, so we at least knew we were going in the right direction, but man, that was a long mile. There was nobody around, so it kinda felt weird, but we made it.

Balboa Park was a great place. We hit up the air and space museum first, lots of cool WWII aircraft. Then we went to a Sports museum where one of the outfielders for the Padres was giving a speech to a crowd of about 75 people, kinda random, but the museum was sorta closed and the guy was talking in the middle of the place. So we would have been the only people in the place browsing around the museum while this guy was talking and it was quiet in there, so we decided to not be dorks and leave.

We then walked over and went through a crappy auto/motorcycle museum, then onto the rest of Balboa park. They had a Natural History museum with pictures of different geologic features across the West, totally cool, and lots of Idaho features in there. There was a Japanese Friendship Garden, and a Science museum with lots of cool exhibits, and tons of stuff for kids, just like the Discovery Center in Boise. The architecture around there was amazing too, lots of columns and adobe structures with gardens and long pathways everywhere. Just a really neat place.

We then decided to venture onto the transit system again, finding a bus that would take us downtown where Petco park is to watch the Padres game. We got there pretty early, because I wanted to see some batting practice, out tickets were pretty good, thanks for hooking us up Matt. It was a really neat stadium, laid out very well with wide open concourse and $9.50 beers that I gladly passed on. The Padres won, and Katie was very thoughtful pointing out that its the first pro game she's ever been to where the home team has won. All the other games she had been to were Twins games I took her to. Zing!!!

So anyways, that brought us to the end of the Honeymoon. It definitely felt like a long vacation, a lot more than others for sure, yet, we weren't really ready to get back to work, but who ever is. But much more adventures were awaiting back at home as we get to start our life together and make a home "ours" instead of "mine".