I am watching little Olivia again today. She is snoring on the couch beside me as I type this. We went back to Balboa Park, in San Diego, again.

Her favorite part of the park, it turns out, was pretending to eat at a Parisian cafe. I took her back to this particular park, because last week when we were there, she was really upset that there were too many kids climbing on the dragon statue, and she didn’t get a turn. So that is the first place we went.

There were no kids on it.

It was the perfect time.

She didn’t want to have anything to do with that stupid dragon.

But the day was not a total loss. I met this little guy.

And we went into the botanical pavilion full of beautiful orchids… which frankly bored the crap out of Olivia…

But I did make her wait patiently in the stroller while I took orchid pictures… because patience is a virtue. Just wait… that is only the outside. The flowers are going to blow you away!