December Nights

We went to December Nights in Balboa Park a couple of weeks ago. It's one of the biggest festivals in San Diego (it started as Christmas on the Prado). Most of the museums in Balboa Park are free at night and there are lots and lots of Christmas decorations and food booths throughout the park. It was a lot bigger than we were expecting, with a lot more people.
There's a group of international cottages in the park and each cottage was offering food from that country during the festival. I went and got a Czech sausage while Chelsey got a Turkish doner kebab. We also snacked on some baklava from Iran, and I also got some ice cream.
We mostly walked around and looked at the decorations in the park, since many of the museums were quite crowded. We did go in the Hall of Champions, a sports museum with some interesting exhibits on the history of professional sports in San Diego, as well as a giant rotating statue of a discus thrower with a Santa hat. The Hall was showing Christmas videos in their auditorium; we tried to go see A Charlie Brown Christmas but they showed It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown which was not nearly as good. Despite that, we had a great time. If we stick around San Diego in the future, I'd definitely like to go back.
-Jason
There are a few more pictures on the picasa site.