The kids took to Coronado Island's beaches, but the adults were weary of the wet sand messes...and there in the background the magnificent Victorian Hotel del Coronado beckoned from "somewhere in time". It was like prying barnacles off of the Midway to get the kids to give up their circular trenching in the sand...but we adults had already wandered off...drawn on my curiosity. A closer look disclosed Dr. Seuss statuary surrounding an ice rink...ice, sand and palm trees...?? We tried to separate the wet sand from the children's flesh as it got colder after the sun set. Losing battle....but they were all good sports about it.
We discovered exotic gardens and a mystifying Dragon Tree for Zoe.
...This all-wood National Historic Landmark was built in 1888 to be "the talk of the Western world." It is not only a living legend...but it's said that a ghost is a permanent resident. What Victorian resort would be complete without a resident ghost? Kate Morgan checked into the resort on November 24, 1892, and never checked out. Reports of ghostly happenings, all thought to be connected to the death of this beautiful young woman, have been circulating at The Del ever since. We had to check it out. One step inside and it was as elegant a Victorian Moment as imagination allows...yet too dreamy to be real. In this altered state you could definitely imagine both ghosts and Saint Nicholas were very, very real. |
| Somewhere in Time - Merry Christmas! |
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| San Diego Zoo Polar Bear Exhibit |
So...what of the zoo? Oh, my camera's battery died after filming the pygmy hippos. But the rap about Paka getting lost from us in the parking lot lives on!
"I'm a Problem", original rap by Newel and Paka after Bob's traumatic wanderings in the Zoo's vast parking lot - Click Here to listen: http://iamtpain.smule.com/
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