{"id":400,"date":"2010-08-16T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-08-17T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T16:15:52","slug":"visiting-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/visiting-san-diego","title":{"rendered":"Visiting San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping to find the sun and the heat in the midst of the coldest winter I ever experienced in California, we drove South to San Diego for 1 week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9290.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-404\" alt=\"IMG_9290\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9290.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9290.jpg 437w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9290-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the program, the San Diego Zoo, Coronado Island, Balboa Park, and Mission Bay.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time at the zoo. It is the best one I have ever visited. We could not cover the whole park in one day but we managed to see all the animals we wanted to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-406\" alt=\"IMG_9325\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9325-1024x769.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9325-1024x769.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9325-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9325.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Among many favorites, we really liked the abnormally hyper-active Koala, the playful Meerkats, and the snobbish but cool Zebra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9348.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-407\" alt=\"IMG_9348\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9348.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9348.jpg 465w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_9348-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Balboa Park is a beautiful park with great museums. I highly recommend the Museum of Man that has great expositions on ancient American civilizations, ancient Egypt, and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofman.org\/exhibit\/footsteps-through-time-four-million-years-human-evolution\">the evolution of man<\/a> from origin to the future of genetic. I got to take a picture with some of our ancestors (or not).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420\" alt=\"IMG_9425\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9425-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9425-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9425-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9425.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also visited the famous Coronado Island with the inevitable pictures in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoteldel.com\/\">the Del<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9393.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-419\" alt=\"IMG_9393\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9393-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9393-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9393-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9393.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping to find the sun and the heat in the midst of the coldest winter I ever experienced in California, we drove South to San Diego for 1 week. On the program, the San Diego Zoo, Coronado Island, Balboa Park, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/visiting-san-diego\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}