We made it through late afternoon San Diego traffic (no thanks to two road rage engaged drivers!) and arrived at the
Chula Vista RV Resort around 5pm. The resort sits on beautiful San Diego Bay in Chula Vista, a few minutes south of downtown San Diego. We got set up quickly and settled in for a sunny couple of weeks in California.
One of our goals while on this trip is to take in as many LDS temples as possible. Southern California has four, so we spent a few days seeing the San Diego, Redlands and Los Angeles temples. We happened upon the Newport Beach Temple quite by accident as we were driving back from the LA temple. We tried to go there on Friday, but it was so busy we decided to head up to the LA temple for a second visit.
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| Selfie at the San Diego Temple |
In addition to temples, we spent time at several of of the museums in Balboa Park. One of our favorites so far has been the Model Train Museum. They had rooms and rooms of model train displays, including a Toy Train Room (my personal favorite). Derrick took a lot of pictures which I will post, but here a few of our favorites.
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| WHAT?? A Stegosaurus being unloaded from the train! |
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| Truck crossing in the model train display |
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| Airport in the model train display |
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| MINIONS riding the train!! |
This makes me sad that we didn't stop at the train museum in Canada on our way to Alaska. No matter how I tweaked our schedule I couldn't make it work for us to be in the right place during open hours. But I bet we all would have loved it. Maybe someday...
ReplyDeleteA temple vacation is something I want Andrew and I to do together. I think our first goal will be to attend a week with the kids otherwise occupied and attend all the Utah temples.
Looks like you're enjoying your entry into retirement!