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Published: December 27th 2006
Left Anaheim at 9am this morning and got on the transfer bus to San Diego, got here bout 10.30am. Checked in our luggage and went out to explore San Diego. In the following days we will visit San Diego Zoo, San Diego Sea World and go down to Tijuana Mexico. So today was a cruisy day looking around San Diego.
We walked down to the local shopping centre (Westfield I think- yay). It was like southland but all outside- I liked it. So all the 'After Xmas Sales' (aka Boxing Day sales) were on. But and yes can u believe we didn’t buy anything!!! Benn got over the shopping quickly ( I could of went all day), so we jumped on the 'trolley' (aka train) and headed Downtown San Diego. Here we walked around, found another skating rink right in the middle of the buildings and had a look through some more shops.
We walked down to the harbor (like St Kilda Beach) and went for a nice walk and jumped on a ferry to take us over to an island called 'Coronado'. There was just a few little shops and nice beach. We just got an ice cream
and went for a little walk. Jumped back on the ferry back to Downtown, jumped back on the trolley, and then back to our hotel. We checked in our room, it was freezing. Apparently the heater was stuck on air con as most people use the air con here and not the heater. So it took a while for that to be sorted out and finally we are here now in a warm and cozy room.
The internet is not free. We have paid $10 to use it overnight, so we have updated as much as we can and will prob not get back on for a few days again
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Dad
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That ship in San Diego
Yes, its famous, its The Star of India. Built in the mid 1800s in England and used for passenagers from England to NZ in the late 1800s. It has a iron hull instead of wood that was unusual for the time. It then became a fishing cargo vessal from Alaska to California until the early 1900s. Then it was bought by someone who left it there. In the mid 1900s it was restored (very lucky ship) and so its there now, and even does special sailing trips!!