February 18 thru 20th, 2008

Monday 18th~~~~~~ Today is Laundry and house cleaning day. Sharon did her walk in the morning while Kent was on the computer again. I think she must need it worse than him! LOL
Tuesday 19th~~~~~ We went to Balboa Park on the trolley today and what a cultural experience that was. The car we rode on was full of Black Americans with Kent and I and a lady from Seattle. I thought they were showing off for our benefit, but Kent said he thought the girls were acting up trying to impress the boys. Every time this boy touched this girl anywhere she screamed at him, "Don't touch me, I ain't cha nigga!! She must have screamed this 6 times as he kept putting his hand on her knee. We couldn't understand why they call themselves that when they get upset if called that by other nationalities. The lady from Seattle was very confused by their behavior as we were. We got off at Balboa Park and went to the San Diego Art Museum. There was all kinds of art, American, Asian and several more. We really enjoyed the American art the best as they had a large viewing of Asher B Durand's American landscape paintings which were awesome. Most of them were so large, it would take a mansion to be able to hang one of them. I can't imaging how he could paint that many of them in his life time as big as all of them were. Next we went to the Museum of Man where they had replicas made of the ancient Pillars made by the Maya Indians in Guadalupe back before Christ. These replicas were made in 1914. It is too long a story to explain, but it sure was interesting. (pictures). We went there today because Sharon wanted to see at the showing of "The Dead Sea Scrolls", they are no longer showing them and are now showing "A Day in Pompey". Today was a very busy one again and we were sure tired when we got home.
Wednesday 20th~~~~~ Today we rode the trolley to Old Town San Diego and on to Mission Valley Shopping Center. We did a lot of looking, as they have winter clothes out there and we are looking for some summer clothes. We rode the trolley a long way so Sharon could see some places Kent went to last year alone when Sharon took the train back to Salem for a few days.