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San Diego Zoo

San Diego Natural
History Museum

Balboa Park raised our children, which was very nice of it.
In the beginning, we brought our babies to the swings in
Pepper Grove Playground and said, "Hold them for a minute
because we haven't slept at all." The chains squeaked back
and forth, wind lifted hair on two tiny heads, pepper trees cast
pools of deep shade, and the Spanish-style bell tower of the
California Building stood mythically on the horizon and said,
Some day you'll come all the way over here.
We ran through the park like it was a
game of Candy Land, winding north to the
Reuben H. Fleet Science Center to stand in
front of irresistible signs: "Touch the tornado,"
and "Build an arch that can stand by itself."
No matter how many times you touched that
tornado, it rose up again, pink and wondrous,
a harmless ghost of the real thing.
WORLDWIDE EXPLORERS
IN JUST ONE PARK

Balboa Park's
Botanical Building

DAVE LAURIDSEN (3)

PHOTO CREDIT TK

W

e disappeared into the San Diego Natural History Museum,
where reconstructed dinosaurs
hovered over us, teaching the lessons of
fight or flight, eat or be eaten, big, bigger,
biggest. Meg the Megalodon shark cast
a shadow the size of a blimp. Near these
ancient creatures, the gleaming brass bob
of the Foucault pendulum swung like the
swings in Pepper Park, but without the
squeak. Silently it arced as the earth rotated
imperceptibly beneath it, beneath the museum's stone fossils, the stuffed mountain
lion, the beaked whale skeleton, the live
darkling beetles, beneath our own feet. And
if we stood there long enough, watching

the pendulum swing to and fro, we could
watch its brass tip topple one polished
brown domino, and with it topple the illusion that the world held still.
From there, it wasn't far to the zoo. I can
still see the sunlight on the Asian elephant's
wrinkled ear, the tapir swimming in a glassfronted tank, the rippled body of the weirdly
albino anaconda, the dust under the stony
feet of the giant
Galapagos tortoises.
BALBOA BIO
Memories keep
balboapark.org
creeping in-our
17 museums
rides on the Skyfari
15 gardens
aerial tram, the world
theaters
tennis courts
made small and toypublic pool
like beneath us.
dog parks
GROWING UP
AND HEADING
WEST

A

s the boys
grew, so
did our
Balboa Park world,
extending west the
entire length of the

running paths
bike rentals
Park grounds
open 24 hours
daily (visitor
center open
9:30 to 4:30)

Admission is free
(fee charged for
zoo and some
museums)

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