Yesterday, we drove down to Balboa Park in downtown San Diego. Poor Paige was starving, but couldn't find anything she wanted to eat:-( There are several museums in the park, which includes the famous San Diego Zoo. We visited the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, the San Diego Air and Space Museum, and the San Diego Natural History Museum.
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| Paige: hungrier than a mountain lion at the natural history museum |
Newport Coast and Newport Beach are very attractive communities, although poor California is showing the effects of its chronic budget crisis. The freeways seem corrugated, there's trash everywhere, and one has the sense that everything is covered in a film of grime. A "state of emergency" has been declared for California schools after $18 billion in cuts over the past three years. There also seems to be a vast gulf between the extremely rich and entitled, and the extremely poor. One thing we were glad to see ... Trader Joe's! We so miss that store out in Colorado!
We are of course saddened by the shooting yesterday in Tucson, Arizona, in which six people were killed and more than a dozen wounded, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot through the left hemisphere of her brain, apparently from the back to the front of her head. Part of her skull has been temporarily removed due to swelling of the brain. It seems she's expected to live, but she may be left with disabilities:-( Sarah Palin's violent rhetoric ("Don't retreat; reload!") is being criticized in the wake of the attack, as is other hate speech that encourages "Second Amendment remedies".
We're planning to go down to the beach today to explore the tide pools.
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