Closing

This is just a note not to expect any future entries to this blog. This was a two-week school program, and I am no longer required to add posts, as we aren't going anywhere. That, and we've already been graded.

la jolla

Today we went to the Scripps Birch Aquarium and the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla. I've been to the aquarium so many times it's lost most of its appeal, and the pictures I took of the fish were out of focus because of the glass case. The MOCA, though, was great. I'd never seen any of the exhibits there before, which are the sort of thing that I really enjoy, and I managed to get an okay picture of the Andy Goldsworthy sculpture outside.

Zoo

The zoo was a zoo...obviously. But it was quite crowded, as one might expect of the 'World Famous' San Diego Zoo. Being a Friday didn't help much, either, as there were probably about four other school groups - all much younger - who were also on field trips on top of the normal zoo crowd. I didn't take a single good picture, though, unfortunately, so I have none to post today...

The Trolley Tour...

Today we took the Old Town Trolley Tour to view Seaport Village and Coronado, but it goes all over sd so we got pictures from all over from the Trolley.

mr. ethington with the hotel del coronado reflected in his sunglasses


the hyatt hotel in downtown sd in the upper-left seen from a curb in seaport village


a us coast guard helicopter seen from seaport village

Old Town

Once everything was figured out, we got onto the bus for Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Long name, eh?

This is what we came for?

It wasn't so bad...

Old Town really wasn't that bad. At least, not nearly as bad as walking to the ferry for Coronado. We got to see some of the historical buildings, and got some good photos, I guess.

Who knows?

After the relative disaster of yesterday (the lack of time and abundance of walking), our teacher has decided to completely rework the whole schedule for the rest of the session. Once that's figured out MAYBE we'll actually go to Old Town, or something. But for that we'd have to use the bus, which is rather expensive at $1.75 per person with about 20 people in the class. Oh well. If we go anywhere, maybe I'll post a couple of good pictures.

Coronado

Today we walked to Coronado. Sort of. We really just walked the 3 1/2 miles from school to the area near the Star of India, called the Embarcadero (I guess), to eat lunch and take the ferry across the Bay to Coronado. But once we got there, we had to head right back to make it back to school before it ended. At least we got some photos.

sd from afar



black and white overpass