The MacLeods Go West: December Nights

This past weekend Balboa Park hosted their annual December Nights event. It's open to the public and the best part is all of the museums are free. There is also tons of food and entertainment. I think we counted at least 5 Santa Clauses.

Lighting of the Tree Ceremony with the mayor.

One of the buildings in Balboa Park. They are all this majestic and ornate.

I was surprised to see this life sized nativity scene. There were about 7 of these booths telling the story of Jesus.

The beginning of a very long row of food tents. Each tent represented a different country and offered corresponding cuisine. In this picture you can see the House of the Philippines tent. We ate from the House of France (french onion soup and a nutella crepe).

There was a whole village of countries. Gordon sending a picture to Sarah and Greg.

We went in the Sports Museum.

And the Train Museum... They were building this area- they mold the mountains out of styrofoam and have pictures of the places they are replicating.

And the Air and Space Museum.

A gentleman working at the Air and Space Museum said this was the only place we would see all 3 medals of honor in one place other than the Pentagon.

They had the Apollo 9 space capsule.

And the Car Museum - with the Back to the Future car.

There was also a whole fair setup within the park. With all the crazy rides that make Gordon and I almost sick just looking at. But Christina, you would have loved it.

Brilliant!

Fun lights outside the zoo.

We are exhausted, but happy :)

Then on Saturday morning we went to my cousin, Lia's first water polo tournament on Coronado island. She did great! Go Dons!

Then we did some more sightseeing:

We thought we would go ice skating, but then realized the rink was basically a puddle of water. So instead we watched people fall and get soaking wet. It was quite amusing. Beautiful day!