150,000 Attend Our Christmas Celebration

Hi Susie, I surely wish you had been here and I would guess your camera and your skill would have come in mighty handy, besides we had as part of San Diego's Cultural Diversity, various countries were represented  with food exhibits (booths to sample their cusine) and the cusine was truely international. The lines at all the venues were very long and I suffered through without eating though I did have some hot spiced cider.

Hi Missy, With two nights of festivities, it is estimated that in excess of 300,000 attended. I would call that a pretty good sized party. And it was wonderful! From beginning to end. The planning must have been amazing and the city did an extraordinary job of putting on the party.

Hi Gary, It is a real treasure and the museums there are extraodinary. The Zoo is also part of the park.

Hi Fred, Many thanks for your nice comments. I have never been featured in Localsm. The only ones I ever see here in San Diego are resturant review. Since I don't plan to do those, I don't think there is much a possibility that will happen, But thanks for thinking it worthy.

Hi Teri, that would have been fun and as I mentioned to Susie about the cuisine being international. Tent after tent from each country was set up in International Village and the lines were simply amazing to try their specialties. I saw  Iran, Hungary, Peru,  Spain, italy, Denmark, France, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Germany and a few others that I just can't remember. Anyway, with all of them cooking and serving food it was certainly fascinating to see all the different kinds of food.

Hi Teri, that would have been fun and as I mentioned to Susie about the cuisine being international. Tent after tent from each country was set up in International Village and the lines were simply amazing to try their specialties. I saw  Iran, Hungary, Peru,  Spain, italy, Denmark, France, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Germany and a few others that I just can't remember. Anyway, with all of them cooking and serving food it was certainly fascinating to see all the different kinds of food.

Hi Sharon, I know that to move over 150,000 per night was incredible and the cleanliness and sophistication of the buses that were used was impressive. I watched a movie on the way back to where I was parked and  the interior was nicer than many planes I have flown on.

Hi Cynthia, The musical presentation and orchestra was 1st class. There was a choral group that seem to be proving the background for others but there were choirs and children's group, the San Diego Men's Chorus ,The Sweet Adeline's and we even had a finalist of American Idol. There was  other stages stages set up through out the park beside the ginormous one at the Organ Pavilion. I could have done 10 post on the event. I saw and did so much in that 7 hours and felt like I never really stopped.

You know what is funny, I saw nothing about all this in todays paper. There was a picture yesterday on the front page with a small blurb. If I were a newspaper editor, I could have filled 10 pages with article after article and photos throughout. To me, it was an opportunity missed.

Woo Hoo, There were so many lights and brilliant trees Sally, throughout the whole park and my camera was acting up and didn't like taking pictures at night. I salvaged a couple hundred but others just didn't come out. I guess I  should do that MeMe tonight and ask for a new camera, A Nikon with Telephoto and Wide angle lens, lol. I sure do hope I get one soon, this little camera is great for fast on the go but for important things, it always seems to fails me. Or I fail it because I don't know how to get the settings right in time or maybe a combination of the two,lol.

It was so wonderful and all those crowds of people were so interesting to watch. None of my videos of the performances and the huge tree that opens up came out because standing in a throng of people that were all talking close to me, well, what I hadn't thought of is that their voices over the music sounds horrible. I could use the videos if I could remove the sound and then maybe add music. Does Gary know if elements will do that? At about 500 yards back from it , when the tree opened and the live Nativity appeared, I couldn't make it out very well.And the Flip could not get a focus clear at all that far back.

It was still great and it was a fun way top spend the 7 hours seeing and doing things that were very special.

Thanks Jeff, I really enjoyed this and it was so well done this year. I have attended in past years  but this one was marvelous and I was fortunate to go early as I was able to get to most of the museums again before they clsoed at 9:00.

Hi Jon, Thank for that great comment. I am delighted that you enjoyed this.

Hi Carol, Thanks for dropping by and sharing in this delightful San Diego Christmas Celebration. I was enjoyable I was impressed with the effort that was expended to create something so worthwhile for so many. I would expect the client you referred to me will love it here. Many thanks and look forward to helping her see the Best of San Diego.