San Diego Weekend!

The weekend in San Diego was packed with beach and park walking from the north to downtown, Mexican food in old town and American dining in down town, and best of all, Family.

Hands down the Werner's clans favorite beach, La Jolla.  

All these sea kayaks are surrounding the Sea Lion.

Pelicans with the Sea Lions.  One word, stinky.

I love the beach.

Can you find the third critter featured in this photo?

It's spring time at the beach.

Rare photo of the photographer.

Nate and I got a little too close.

I can certainly see the family resemblance. 

Nate strayed a little too far for comfort, it's great to have back up support.  Notice Susan is almost as far out as Nate, I wonder where he gets his love for the sea from?

Los Padres, very happy in their new beach side living.

I lost my glasses so Susan loaned me her back up pair.

This kid is getting in "trouble" for wondering off.

My first Mission Tour.  California has so much older European history compared to Washington.

Beautiful grounds at the Mission.

The Chapel, restored in the 1930s.

Nate drawing.

The next day we went to a cactus garden.

These flowers are on road sides all over San Diego, they are so beautiful.

We came at a great time to see the cacti flowering.

This is a very large tree, it reminds my of flowering magnolia trees.

New growth is so colorful.

We loved the cacti and succulents because they are so strange and completely different from vegetation back home.

Dragon tree.

In the garden people gratified the plants, sad.

Most of these pictures were taken by Kurt with his amazing camera.

A little evergreen color was a comforting sight.

Nothing in there but spiders, decided against my first inclination to climb in.

They grow big here.

We are at Balboa Park.

Another rare photo of the photographer. 

We would need a full week to see the whole park, there were many museums, art galleries, science center and zoo at the Balboa Park. We will be back here.

Sunday afternoon we walked along the pier in San Diego and visited the Mid-Way.

This is at the convention center in San Diego.