Art Walk in Little Italy

In researching things to do in San Diego, Jim discovered the annual Art Walk in the Little Italy neighborhood.  (This is part of his tour-San-Diego-to-make-Whitney-like-it thing.)  This year the Art Walk was the weekend of April 27.  A bunch of blocks are closed to traffic, and about 350 visual artists show their work in little booths.  There are also live performances (music, dance) going on at various spots. 

We aren't really in the market for art since we a) have no more open walls, b) probably couldn't bring ourselves to pay that much money for anything, and c) are too afraid of going in and really looking when the artist is standing right there and we'd feel bad about not buying anything.  So we walked the streets and looked around without getting too close.  We didn't see anything we were really wild about, but it was fun to take it all in. 

 

Of course, Dolly had to get out of the stroller for a while and pretend she's big:

 

We enjoyed some of the buildings:

There were a number of people holding signs like this one:


Note the guy playing live music in the background under the green tent.

There was a band playing on the stage on the right:

Little Italy sign, Art Walk sign, and lots of people:

Random hula hoopers:

 

Dolly and I under the Little Italy sign:

A very nice man offered to take a picture of all of us.  He missed the whole point of capturing the sign:

 

 

On our way back to the car, we passed this shop, where two girls were getting set up as human mannequins.  It was really weird:

It was a fun outing, and this exposure to Little Italy ended up inspiring our anniversary weekend celebration.  Post coming soon.