We bought a museum pass for Balboa Park, which has a number of museums– some more well-known than others. For the next year, it lets us visit any of the museums at any time. We dropped in on the Air and Space Museum with our friends the Knudsens:
Then, with some time before our dinner, we decided on a whim to take a look at the Model Railroad Museum.
It was so cool!
There were many enormous models of landscapes, towns, scenes, and of course miles of (scale model) train tracks running through all of it.
I loved the little “Easter eggs” scattered throughout the scenery.
In some cases, I wondered how you’d even build a model of, say, a car accident where someone lost a load of caged chickens.
Notice the little white chickens running amok. There’s even a tiny rooster right in the center of the shot. The attention to detail was astonishing.
There were even scale models of local areas, including some of the canyons in the area, and El Centro itself (as it was around the turn of the 20th Century).
In short, a museum that I thought would be pretty dry and dull turned out to be a ton of fun. We’ll definitely go back… hopefully at some point with Ollie!