Jen's Great Auntie Jo came down from Northern California to visit and meet Kali for the first time. We have not been able to head up to north for the past few holidays either due to medical stuff or work schedules...so we have been in San Diego for the past three years and have had only immediate family visit. We miss seeing all our extended families during the Christmas holidays. Cross our fingers that this year we will be able to make it up there.
While Auntie Jo was in town, we spent an afternoon at Balboa Park and enjoyed watching all the different walks of life. We hardly spend our weekends at the park because it can be so busy and the folks that are out and about can be interesting. We tallied up the total number of wedding parties happening on that Saturday and it came out to be around ten or so.
We stopped by the Japanese tea garden and to our dismay...closed for a private event (wedding???). We also ventured to the Botanical Garden...again closed...but not for a special event, we were just lagging and missed the open hours by 15 minutes. Our luck was dwindling. Kalista enjoyed the enormous water fountain and motioned to jump in like it was a swimming pool since all these other kids were frolicking in it (which might actually be a big no no). She loved the rose garden and took us on a long botanical tour by walking through every row of roses.
Auntie Jo stayed for a few more days, but promised to come back to see all the other sights San Diego has to offer another day.
