Homeward Bound

Here we sit in the San Diego airport waiting for our flight. I'm a little paranoid when it comes to flying and missing a flight. We were at the terminal 1 1/2 hours before our flight leaves. Erica keeps giving me the evil eye because I made her get out of bed so early to make it here. But we had to find the highway from our weird hotel, find the park and ride, drop of the rental car, and ride the shuttle to the airport, and get through security. You can just never be sure how long all of that will take. I'd rather be early than late. It's not like going to church where we are late every week.

I had a business conference that I came to. My flight and hotel was paid for so we just had to pay for Erica's flight so she came along. It was fun to have her along. Otherwise, sitting in your hotel room all night is not that exciting. We stayed an extra day and ran around to see a few things. We went to Coronado Island which was pretty cool. We hung out at the beach for a while and really enjoyed it. The sand washing up on the beach had a bunch of gold glittery stuff in it, like pyrite or something. Anyways, when the waves would come in, the water was all sandy and then as it went out, the water would turn gold from the pyrite. It was cool to watch and Erica really wanted to take a picture but we didn't bring our camera so all we had was my phone, which quite frankly is a phone, not a camera. We did our best. Pretend you can see all of the gold and tell Erica how cool it looks.

We were going to try to take a picture of our feet and the ocean with waves coming in, but we didn't want to sit in the wet sand and all I had was my phone camera which I was afraid of dropping, so it was like '6 strikes you're out'. Here's the result.

 

It kind of looks like Erica's foot is bigger than mine. Mine is just sooooo much further away. My foot is attached to the hairy leg on the right in case you were wondering.

We were going to try surfing, but the rental shop was out of boards and the shop that did lessons never returned our phone call. We were a little bummed. I've always wanted to try it. One day it will happen.

We walked around Gaslamp Quarters which was OK. It's mostly a bunch of restaurants and no bathrooms. Erica had to go so bad but everywhere we went didn't have bathrooms or public bathrooms. It was a little ridiculous. Ask Erica about it. Ha ha ha. A sushi restaurant finally let us use the bathroom, the bathroom doors had cool pictures on them. Again you can thank my awesome phone for the crappy picture (no flash).

We walked around Little Italy last night and had dinner which was tasty. They were having an art walk so they had a bunch of the streets closed down with booths everywhere. It was pretty cool. We went to Balboa Park and walked around the gardens. There was a rose garden, a desert garden, and a Japanese garden. They were pretty neat and most importantly, FREE! Erica liked this tree in the desert garden. It looked like a cactus transplanted on a tree trunk.

There is a whole bunch of museums but they are all $15-20 to go in. There was one free exhibit that we went into. It was a bonsai exhibit. We now officially like bonsai. When we have a house of some sort and a place to have some, we will find some bonsai trees. There were big ones, medium ones and tiny ones (3-4" tall). It was pretty cool. This was one of our favorites. It was growing over a rock.