As a child, my Mum stressed the importance of culture and dragged my sister and I along to museums, art galleries and theatres in every city we visited. When I was younger I complained about this sightseeing, preferring to spend my time shopping or watching tv on the hotel's larger than life screen. As I'm getting older I can appreciate the cultural aspects of travelling and opted to spend a day at San Diego's
Balboa Park. I bought the day pass and spent several glorious hours traipsing though the
Museum of Photographic Arts (my personal favourite), the
Museum of Man, the
Natural History Museum (where I saw an adorable 3-D film about turtle reefs), the
Mingei International Museum and the
Museum of Art. I was on cloud 9 exploring ancient artefacts and learning about San Diego's history. When I have kids, I plan on imitating my mother's travelling philosophy and ensuring that my children experience the culture of every city they visit.
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| Just because you're going to spent your day in museums doesn't mean you can't dress up! |
If you look in the window behind me you can see the reluctant photographer taking pics on his lunch break!
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| Dress & Blouse- Chicshop; Heels- Aldo; Earrings- The Bay; Ring- Thrifted |
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| Maneki Neko cat sculptures at the Mingei International Museum |
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| The scenery at Balboa Park makes you feel as if you're in a tropical paradise |
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| As the sun set, it was time for my Chicshop dress to go from museums to martinis by showcasing its sexy back detailing (and yes I have a tramp stamp, no judging) |
On our last day in San Diego, my man blew off his afternoon conference sessions and I took him to
Horton Plaza, acting as his personal shopper while we picked out dress shirts in all colours of the rainbows to spice up his work wardrobe.
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| Romper & Belt- Thrifted; Sunglasses & Bracelet- Aldo; Sandals- Suzy Shier |
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{I sometimes wish we had a photography companion who travelled with us so we could avoid the extended arm snapshots!}
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For our last night we visited the conference's Hospitality Suites where technology companies competed for business by enticing clients in with free drinks, food and entertainment (the most popular among the 90% male clientele being the burlesque themed room!)
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| Dress- Alice & Olivia; Belt, Clutch & Bracelet- Thrifted |
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| I think they should have kept me as a permanent fixture to their exhibit- I look scarier than the skeletons! |
Look at you rocking that romper! And I love that black drapey that you have one over that one dress (which is super duper hot by the way...).
ReplyDeletexoxo ~ Courtney
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What--no pictures from the burlesque room? :) What was Captain Jack trying to sell you?
ReplyDeleteYour dress is amazing! I like to look nice at museums too, especially because I know I'll be taking a lot of pictures.
Looks like you had a good time
ReplyDeleteyou are a tougher woman than me
ReplyDeletestanding in those shoes all day at a museum
i would have had Capn' Jack rubbing my feet
glad you are having such a nice time
brett
You look FABULOUS! Really cute. And I'm glad you had fun there.
ReplyDeleteI loved Balboa Park. My favorite museum, which you probably passed, was the car & motorcycle one. Did you visit the collection of artists displaying their work at the Spanish Village Art Center? That is way cool.
Sounds like a fabulous time!
ReplyDeleteI am dying over those crazily awesome orange heels. So bright, so fantastic.
Your mom is wise!! Great place and I'm glad you enjoyed it! Many kisses :)
ReplyDeleteThat is one hot dress! I must say again how much I love those shoes.
ReplyDeletelove your outfits esp that floral backless number!
ReplyDeletexoxo Monroe
Fashion Steele NYC
Love the first dress, and the bright yellow peep toes are adorable! ♥
ReplyDeleteThe romper is cute, too :) I think you could really pull off anything! ;)
Yayyyyy!! Caption Jack Sparrow!!! ♥ Haha, you look so hilarious in that picture with the skeletons!! xD
xoxo
Jordan♫
Well, it is wonderful to have one's wisdom acknowledged! I love libraries, art galleries and musueums and although you and your sister moaned about the LAM (Libraries, Art galleries, Museums) component of the trips, I knew it was the thing to do. I remember one time in Toronto, I had to threaten that you wouldn't be taken to the Barbie store in the Eaton Centre, until you complied with LAM regulation. Ah, motherhood...inflicting threats and bribery! But look how wonderfully you both turned out!
ReplyDeleteloving all the florals! that romper is so adorable. glad you've enjoyed SD. and just checked out your guest post on Write It In Lipstick! love the white dress!
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I love how in the first outfit you can go from a day look with the black coverup to a sexy night out dress. I am also loving that soft blue dress in the last two pictures. I love museums and art galleries too, although when I was a kid, not so much. Now I'm glad my parents made me go, it definitely instilled me with a love of art and culture that often gets lost in this day in age.
ReplyDeleteOMgosh that dress! Muy caliente right?
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