California - San Diego Balboa Park and Harbor Cruise April 2019

After yesterday's trip to the zoo, I was pretty confident in my ability to get around by bus. Mike had a half day of his conference left, so I decided to go back out to Balboa Park ad check out the Museum of Photographic Arts. The buildings ion that part of the park were built for the Panama-California Exhibition in 1915 so they're pretty cool old Spanish style buildings. 

The museum of Photographic Art was quite a disappointment to me. It was very small and veru=y limited. You can read my Tripadvisor review here:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60750-d128806-r665579237-Museum_of_Photographic_Arts_MoPA-San_Diego_California.html

I wandered over to the Botanical building but it was closed that day. I contemplated going back to zoo since I was within walking distance, but I couldn't justify the admission price for just a couple of hours. There are couple of other museums in Balboa Park, but nothing that really piqued my interest so I went back to the hotel to wait for Mike to finish up. 

In the afternoon, we took a harbor cruise with Hornblower Cruises. The two hour version is definitely the better option I think, because I enjoyed the second hour more than the first. If you take the 1 hour option you only go halfway along the harbor, either north or south and which way you go depends on when you board. Anyway, I enjoyed the southern loop because they take you past the shipyards where you can see ships being built and refurbished including naval ships. Our captain had been in the navy so he knew all about the different ships and talked about them as we went along. We saw several helicopters in flight and an Osprey as well. Two Navy Seal boats zoomed by us too. There was an aircraft carrier in port too.

I only wished I had thought to bring my hat as I added to my sunburn from the previous day. I did buy some sunscreen that morning but since I had already put on my makeup, I didn't put any on my face. Big mistake, I burned my face a little more and burned my scalp too. We've had so much rain the last several months, that I'm not used to thinking about sunburn.