Start the weekend off by showing your support for Ocean
Beach and their 68th Annual Ocean Beach Kite Festival on Saturday,
May 14th. The Festival is free and
sponsored by the Ocean Beach Kiwanis Club. It will be held at the Dusty Rhodes Park (as
it is Every Year), from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
This is the oldest children’s kite festival in the United States and the
day will be packed with family-fun activities, such as the kite building and
decorating station (where all the materials will be provided). There will be prizes for the best decorated handmade
kite, and this can be one that you make ahead of time. Like every year, there will be professional kite
fliers and demonstrations that will give a new appreciation to the world of
kite flying. To round off the fun there
will be food, live music and a beer garden.
Celebrating a
100-year anniversary is a big mile stone and the San
Diego Zoo is planning
quite the party to
commemorate their
centennial this Saturday.
That evening the Zoo will close early and
the party will move to Spreckels
Organ Pavilion so the whole town
can help ring in the occasion.
This free event is the Zoo’s way to
thank San Diego for a great 100 years and we can show
our support
by attending and enjoying all the festivities. It kicks off at 6:00PM
and ends at 10:00 PM, and will be filled
with live music, dancing,
and unforgettable fun. As a treat for fans,
many of the museums in
Balboa Park will offer free entry, such as the San Diego Museum
of Art, as a way to show their comradery
to the Zoo. This will be a
fun evening for the whole family, with crafts, face
painting, animal
ambassadors introducing exotic and adorable animals to everyone.
There will be many of San Diego’s most famous
and delicious food
also has some surprises up their sleeve, and you will not want to
miss the
live orchestra performing at 8:00 PM. As
we mentioned
this party is free but they do ask that attendees RSVP (click
support and celebrate this impressive birthday.
If you want to root
for some talented athletes, then visit Fiesta
Island is in Mission Bay for the two-day ‘Beach Soccer Jam’
(May 14 and 15). This isn’t your
average soccer game, it’s a faster-
paced version of
the world’s most popular sport. The
soccer ball
flies back and forth at such a quick pace that
there are usually
around 60 shots at the goal in a game and scores hover around 10
and 11, as opposed to 1 or 2. This Jam has been dubbed the ‘soccer
highlight show,’ and players will
usually perform acrobatic kicks
and jumps, since sand has softer landing than grass. Spectators
won’t get bored at this sport! The Jam will also include a
‘Brazilian Jam Festival’
complete with Brazilian Samba dancers
(including their extravagant, feathered costumes) and Capoeira
dancers. There will be a DJ providing some jams and a
beer
garden. The games go from
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, plenty of time
to drop in over the weekend to show your support for the different
teams.
Amgen, the
biotech company, has dedicated itself to finding a cure
for cancer, and one way
is through the 8-day
bike race, Amgen
Diego is
hosting day 1 of the Tour, which will cover about 800
miles and end near Sacramento. This is American’s biggest staged
race and
riders are made up of national and international
champions, as well as Olympians. The
event will be broadcast to
millions all over the world, but if
you are in Mission Bay this
Sunday (May 15th), you’ll have a chance to cheer the racers on in
person. For ‘Stage 1’ of the race, Mission Bay will actually
be the
starting point as the riders traverse all over the city before
heading
east to the desert and then finish back where they
started. If you
want to show your
support for this great race and these
tremendous athletes, we suggest arriving around 11:00 AM
so you’ll have time to see them start their
ride. For more
From your favorite
zoo to amazing athletes this weekend it’s all
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