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Afternoon at the San Diego Zoo with Preschoolers – Elephant Odyssey
by Donna Amis Davis / @DonnaAmisDavis The San Diego Zoo is an amazing place. We love taking our two little grandchildren to the zoo. It is near downtown, in Balboa Park. At 100 acres, with more than 3,700 animals from 660 species and subspecies, and over 700,000 plants, it is too large for a small child to take in on…
Quintessential San Diego From A to Z
Blogging from A to Z Challenge - April 2014 I'm diving off the deep end, folks! I just signed up for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for the month of April. The challenge is to put up a new post every day in April, except Sundays. That's 26 posts, for the 26 letters of the alphabet. A on…
La Jolla is for Lovers. . . and Seals
La Jolla is home to many wonderful things - the University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the late Dr. Suess, the venerable La Valencia Hotel, La Jolla Cove, gorgeous views and scenery. But my favorites are relative newcomers -- the colony of Pacific harbor seals. La Jolla began to be settled by modern settlers in the late…
San Diego, California
by Donna Amis Davis / @DonnaAmisDavis Big Waves at La Jolla, the January Swell Come along today, and we'll venture across the Pacific Ocean from Palawan, Philippines to visit my hometown. I was born and raised in San Diego, California. Well, I was actually born in La Jolla, the gorgeous upscale village on a jewel of coastline. That's what my…
This Week in the Blog
Donna On Palawan got a fresh look recently. New theme, with lots of bright colors, and fun choices of fonts. Check it out if you haven't visited in a while. Tell me what you think. Did you know that I have a popular pin over on Pinterest? It's a recipe for a healthy snack I developed to feed my grandkiddos…
La Jolla Coast Walk – Could Anything Be Prettier?
La Jolla Shores View from Coast Walk If you visit San Diego, don't miss the views from the La Jolla Coast Walk! You'll see surfers, ocean kayakers, sea lions, pelicans, bluffs, and the wide Pacific. A quintessentially Southern California experience. I'll admit, I took these pictures in April, on a beautiful spring day, nasturtiums and daisies blooming. If you visit…
San Diego Kids Free October – San Diego Loves Kids – 100 Free Attractions in October!
Feeding the Ducks at San Diego Zoo Safari Park Kids are free in October all over San Diego! 100 partners have joined this year for San Diego Kids Free October. The San Diego Zoo has offered kids-free Octobers for more than 25 years. Local tourism officials expanded the program last year to get families to extend the summer traveling season…
Spring Surprises in San Diego
We left San Diego in the throes of winter - well, San Diego winter, that is. It was 'cold'. Some nights it got down to the high 40's. That's San Diego Freezing. The monstrous Chinese Elm in the backyard was mostly bald. My new compost pile the fortunate recipient of all those fallen leaves. Six and a half weeks in…