SAN DIEGO — I’m walking on Sesame Street, where I see the famed stoop leading to the two-story brownstone apartment building with a “123" address. All the details I know and love from my favorite childhood show are here — the green lamppost, the shady trees, the colorful fabric curtains peeking out from Elmo’s bedroom window.
Only now, Oscar the Grouch is telling my 3-year-old son, Max, to “scram!” as he giggles and prods at his dingy metal trash can. Nearby, my 9-year-old daughter, Maggie, takes a selfie inside Big Bird’s nest. Young kids and their parents are ringing Bert and Ernie’s doorbell, shopping at Hooper’s Store and giving high-fives to a supersize Grover.
This is Sesame Place San Diego, a 17-acre theme park that opened Saturday in Chula Vista. It’s the second Sesame Place — the first opened in Philadelphia in 1980 — and the first theme park from Orlando-based SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment in nine years.
