Keep on Walking

We started our day with another American breakfast - does my butt look big in this blog?

We took the motel shuttle to the Zoo which is in the Balboa Park area which looks lovely and is on our list for next time. The zoo is located on a couple of hills with valley areas in between; lots of steps, ups and downs. Parts of the zoo are beautiful with large enclosures, underwater and glass viewing areas and animals that look quite happy. Other parts are very old with small cages - granted, they have put smaller animals into these cages but it still makes me feel very sad. They are currently working on a new elephant enclosure which will be much larger than the current area and will house other animals in the same enclosure. The map was hopeless and we regularly heard other people becoming irritated because they could not work out where they were or how to get to a particular place. We decided that it must have been free school day at the zoo today there were school kids everywhere.

At about 1pm we grabbed a taxi and headed for the US Midway an aircraft carried which is now a floating museum on the bay. You can check the whole ship out at your own pace with an audio tour. This thing is huge and you don't just look at each deck there are stairs up to one area and stairs down to another on each level. My butt may not become as big as I thought if I keep up this sort of punishment! We stopped off at the Fantail Cafe for a salad wrap (with potato chips - what the?) and an iced tea before continuing onto the flight deck - massive.

Once we had finished the US Midway tour we had just enough time to catch the ferry to Coronado Island and stroll along the board walk for an hour or so. The ferry back picks up naval (or should that be navy) workers in the restricted Naval area on this particular run - no photos here please!

We returning to our motel with our "take out" to eat on our balcony as we watched the last of the light fade away.

We had planned to take it easy in San Diego, four days to just chill out and not do too much - oooops! We have had a great time here.