San Diego

Last week, Tricia and my Dad and I spent a few days in San Diego. It was such a great trip. We went to the ocean. We ate fresh fish. In fact, I'm trying to remember now why I decided to come back home. That may have been a mistake.
My first visit to the San Diego Zoo. It's huge! I loved it! The pandas were my very favorite. I also was really impressed with all the habitat areas and the flowers and plants.

Two of the polar bears started a wrestling match while we were watching them. I was fascinated - and really glad for the glass partition!

Outside the Mormon Battalion Visitors Center in Old Town San Diego. We also saw San Diego's first synagogue, first school, first courthouse, and what I believe may have been San Diego's first saloon.

Everyone who has seen this picture asks the same question: How much did Biz and I have to pay Dad to pose for this shot? Answer: Nothing. He hopped on that wagon of his own free will. In fact, I remember turning around and there he was, practically begging to have his picture taken. True story.

The carousel at Seaport Village. This was right after the fudge I had for breakfast that morning! I was on vacation. Why wouldn't I eat a quarter-pound of chocolate first thing and then go for a ride on a merry-go-round?

Parasailing!!! We were on our way to the hotel to change into swim stuff, when Tricia mentioned that she wanted to come back to San Diego sometime and fulfill her life-long dream of parasailing. To which I replied, "Sunshine, we're here NOW. Why don't we go parasailing this afternoon?" Literally an hour later, we had typed "parasailing San Diego" into google, located a near-by harbor and found ourselves being strapped into harnesses by our new best friend, Mike. As a sidenote, Mike happened to be extremely good looking and knew all the words to Weezer's "The Sweater Song." Pretty sure he would have wanted to date me if, you know, I was going to be in town for awhile and was looking for a serious relationship.

Yep, that's us! During our ride, we were eye-level with a passing helicopter at one point. It was absolutely amazing. I loved being on the boat, loved being in the air, and loved the dolphins we saw on our way back to shore. What an afternoon! Great idea, Biz.

Saturday morning I got up early and did a session at the San Diego Temple. The temple in San Diego is known as "the castle temple." You round the corner on the freeway and there is a beautiful and strikingly white masterpiece of a building. So you can imagine my surprise when THIS is what greeted us at the temple grounds. Guess they're doing some construction. Talk about scaffolding.

The only tiny hitch in the trip was that our one-hour layover in Vegas turned into a three-hour layover in Vegas. Luckily I bought a milkshake and a John Grisham novel at the airport and survived the horrible ordeal. Thanks Dad and Biz for an AMAZING trip!!!