Little Bits Pics: May 2016

San Diego Getaway May 5, 2016 Day 4

We headed back to Balboa park on Thursday and did a few more museums.

The San Diego Model Railroad Museum was amazing.

A nano gauge train.

Can you see the shark in the pool?

A cool tree in Balboa park.

While in the San Diego Museum of Man we bought tickets to take the tour of the California Tower which is part of the building the museum is in.

View from one of the tower's windows on our way to the top.

The spiral staircase that leads up to the last level we are allowed to go.

Views from the tower.

More spiral stairs leading further up the tower but not open to the public.

Looking down from the tower.

Ground view of the California Tower.

After we were done at the park we decided to head back to Little Italy and have dinner. We ate at Panificio E Ristorante Solunto on Tuesday and it was fabulous. A true Italian restaurant with a bakery and gelato ice cream. (which I had for dessert) Our servers were all cute Italians with strong accents.

This gorgeous wall of succulents was in Little Italy.

We ate at Civico 1845 in Little Italy on our last night in San Diego. It was also fabulous! We had cream puffs drowning in chocolate for dessert. I posted this picture on instagram and the owner of this restaurant liked my post.

We had a wonderful time in San Diego!

San Diego Getaway May 4, 2016 Day 3 part 2

After we left the USS Midway we headed down to the Maritime Museum of San Diego. We had bought tickets as part of a deal when we purchased tickets for the Midway. We were really disappointed in this museum. A couple of the ships and one submarine (B-39 Soviet sub) were closed. We wondered around the Star of India (three mast ship)(Allan is standing on the deck) walked past the H.M.S. Surprise (another 3 mast ship) (an event what going on) and only those attending the event could get on the Soviet sub. We walked around the Medea (someone's yacht). We were able to get on the submarine USS Dolphin and the Steam Ferry Berkeley which had a bunch of maritime displays. There were a couple more ships but they were closed. We felt it wasn't worth our money for what we were able to see.

View of San Diego Harbor.

I thought of my dad when I saw all of these model ships.

A pelican.

USS Dolphin

For dinner we ate at The Fish Market.

This was Allan's dinner. He wanted to try the mussels. He said they were ok but probably won't order them again.

Our view at dinner.

San Diego Getaway May 4, 2016 Day 3 Part 1

We spent the whole day on the USS Midway. We were first in line when it opened at 10 am. The first thing they do is take your picture and give you your items for the audio tour. I noticed a sign about the island tour(the bridge), that it was first come first served. I asked how to get there and we headed straight there. We were the first ones in line and the docents checked to see if anyone else was coming and no one was so we got a private tour of the island and it was awesome. We spent the rest of the day on the ship and throughly enjoyed ourselves.

Tour of the island.

I don't think I would have gotten these great pictures if the tour happened to be filled. We were so lucky to be the only 2 on the tour.

We spent several hours on the flight deck. We listened to 2 great presentations on how planes took off using the catapult and landing using the catch cables.