San Diego in a Day

Part of Corbin's prize package was tickets for the Old Town Trolley Tour. It basically goes ALL OVER San Diego and you can get on and off as you please all day. There are about 11 different stops - we had time for four of them. If you are familiar with The city and want to see where we went, you can check it out here. Otherwise, here is the shortened version of our fun San Diego day.

Maritime Museum - we toured a couple boats and a submarine. One of the boats was the one used to film Master and Commander, so there were pictures of Russell Crowe all over. That was a plus. The boys like the submarine. I'm pretty sure I couldn't stay in there longer than it took for me to walk through it though. I am way too claustrophobic and don't think I could share 3 bathrooms with 97 other people.

Fish & chips at Anthony's on the water. (I have no idea why they had their hands up)

Huge aircraft carrier, which we opted not to tour since it was like $20 a person. It was really cool to see it though.

Colton and Cody were obviously totally intrigued. They slept while we walked around the shops and got ice cream at Seaport Village.

Next stop: Coronado Island. The boys loved the short time we stopped to play on the beach. That's the Hotel del Coronado in the background. It was old, famous and really cool. Too bad it is only for the seriously rich.

This is the view of San Diego as our trolley crossed the San Diego/Coronado Bay Bridge.

The tour started and ended in Old Town. I wish we could have spent more time here, but it was fun to walk around for a little while. This was the original beginning of San Diego, so they had all the old time shops, etc. Now it has all kinds of outdoor shops and restaurants, etc.

We also got to see much of Balboa park on our ride through, it was really gorgeous. It has museums, Japanese gardens, an outdoor theater and the San Diego zoo. It was past 5 pm by the time we passed through there, so we decided not to disembark. We had had plenty of fun for the day. The tour was a good way to see many different parts of San Diego, although, I don't know if I would reccommend for those traveling with a one year old. Riding on mom's lap in the trolley was exciting for about the first 15 minutes, then the little pieces of trash, etc on the floor looked much more exciting. All in all it was fun, and hey, it was free, so we really can't complain. We actually loved everything we did. What a beautiful and fun town!