Our Fair City

San Diego is really pretty, originally uploaded by mclanea.

Sometimes we get to play local tourist. Today was one of those days.

Heck, 7.25% of the fun of hosting Lisa here this summer is having an excuse to play the role of tourist… one more time.

There is a certain allure to San Diego. And amidst all the other stuff we often loose site of some of the most amazing places in the city.

Like Balboa Park. This place is incredible. A complex of gorgeous museums, public spaces, fountains, and the San Diego Zoo. It is crazy big, too. It stretches from 4th Avenue to 18th Street! We’ve been there a bunch of times and I still think I’ve only seen about 25% of it.

I remember hanging out with Mindi Godfrey shortly after I came on staff at YS. She said something that has stuck with me. And I kind of laughed it off at first. But she was completely right. She said, “Sometimes I stop and think to myself… it’s so cool that I get to live here.”

San Diego. We suffer for Jesus here.