Balboa Park is a cool area of fun things to do.  It has a huge water fountain where you can have a picnic nearby and see pretty birds fly down and have your leftovers!

There are a lot of museums in Balboa Park.  Some of them are the Museum of Man, Aerospace Museum, Hall of Champions, and the Model Railroad Museum.  My favorite ones are the Natural History Museum and the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center.

The Natural History Museum has had all kinds of gigantic, moving insects, dinosaurs, and whales.  These are so cool to see!  This place even has Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus doing all sorts of neat stuff.  You can learn lots of fun things by signing up for her class.

In the Fleet Space Theater there is the Imax Theater with a HUGE rounded screen.  It is SO cool to watch the great movies they show!  Our whole third grade took a field trip there and saw "Alaska."  That was a lot of fun.  Right by this theater is the neat Science Center.  It has lots of science stuff that we can play with.

Balboa Park also has a really old merry-go-round with a lot of cool animals to ride.  You can even still try to grab a brass ring!  There is a little railroad train ride too.   You can also walk inside a place that looks like a big greenhouse with lots and lots of different plants in it.

If you like to go to plays, Balboa Park has the Old Globe Theatre, Cassius Carter Centre Stage, and the outdoor Starlight Theatre.  It is really fun to see what happens when an airplane flies over during a play at the Starlight Theatre.  All the actors and actresses freeze until the plane passes!

There are tons more things to do at Balboa Park.  Have fun!

by Lindsay

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