University Town Centre!

A few weeks ago I went to one of my favourite malls in the city, University Town Centre (commonly referred to as UTC.) You may ask "Rissa, why go to a mall when there are so many parks you could go to with water fountains?" The answer to that is that I really like this mall for several reasons!
1) There is an ice rink!













2) It's one of the few malls with a capezio's dance store in the city (HUGE plus for me haha) and






3) IT HAS A PARK LIKE AREA!!











This easily makes this my favourite mall in San Diego :)


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This week was Tecolote Park! This is one of my favorite parks in San Diego. It is usually pretty quiet, has basketball courts, baseball fields and a rec room filled with cool stuff like air hockey. Also, this is a great place to watch the Sea World fireworks during the summer. :)






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Let's skip R!

So I am skipping R. Want to know why? Because the R parks here DON'T. HAVE. WATER FOUNTAINS!!!
So we went to Mt. Soledad Park in La Jolla!








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It's been so long!

It has been so long since I last posted! The problem has been, "Where the heck am I going to find a park that starts with a Q?" And I couldn't for the longest time. But finally my parents found a park that started with a Q and is even had a water fountain to boot!




























Quivira Park in the Quivira Basin! It was a truly beautiful, and quite secluded, spot.

Here's a little funny story here. We got out of the car, and I started off towards the water fountain, and I heard my dad say, "Um, that rock has ears!" My mom, sister and I all turned around and saw, that indeed, that rock had ears. My sister took a step closer and the rock then meowed! Obviously it wasn't a rock at all, but a sweet little kitten, abandoned and scared. We ended up taking her to my grandparents' house and Calling her Penelope! :D

Next week (hopefully) a park that starts with R!


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Pioneer Park :)

This week we traveled to Julian and went to the Pioneer Museum and attached park. It was... interesting. We didn't go through the museum itself because it was 3 dollars a person, and we had no cash. But we did get a glimpse in and if you are a person who likes your taxidermy, it is a perfect place for you. There were all sorts of stuffed, dead animals.
There also wasn't much to the park. I was on the page for it on the County of San Diego site and it listed the features of the park:
-Picnic tables
-Restroom
-Water fountain

That was basically all that was there. However, Julian is a lovely place to visit (and get pie!) so the day was not wasted.







There were daffodils EVERYWHERE in Julian. We had no clue why there were so many daffodils, obviously freshly planted, so when we got home, we looked it up.

"March 20-21: Daffodil Show "Daffodil Lovers" Come celebrate Spring with the Flower of Hope– Julian Town Hall 2129 Main Street and The Blue Heron Garden Shop, 2116 Third St. – Saturday, March 20, 12 to 5 p.m., Sunday, March 21, noon to 5 p.m. – Bring all daffodils for display & judging Friday March 19, noon to 4 p.m. names and questions about daffodils answered by National Daffodil Society experts"

So now you know. :)



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Raaaaaaaain

It rained this weekend. Therefore, I was unable to go to a park. I will next week though!

Ooooold Town!

Old Town San Diego! One of my favorite places in San Diego.


While we were there, a mariachi band was being arrested. Why? We have no clue, but it was pretty amusing for us.






















The Whaley House is one of the most haunted places in the United States!







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