San Diego

On Friday, July 9, Em picked us up and we headed over to Pacific College, but not before getting some good cuddles with Mel. Mel has loved all the attention from "company" and will miss the extra pets she has been getting during the day.

At Pacific College we had a wonderful tour with Gina, admissions director. We saw the classrooms, clinic and pharmacy.


Chris finished putting the soundboard on the upstairs opening, and Ray made friends with one of Emily's roommates, Pia. She is very well trained and will sit on command. However she just about knocked me over on the way in. Not a fan.




Chris got his orders to report to a destroyer in Jacksonville, Florida. Emily is riding cross country with him and they left early Saturday morning. She'll fly back to West Hartford this weekend and then go on to Maine with us for a couple of weeks. Classes start September first.

We picked up Carrie Nichols at the University of San Diego where she is attending a workshop on history of shipping in the United States. She flew in on Friday and had Saturday as a free day to tour the town with us. After catching up over coffee, we headed over to the Scripp's Aquarium back up in La Jolla, very close to Sara's apartment.
For some reason rattlesnakes like the aquarium too. This was the first I'd heard of rattlers in the city! I say more of these and fewer reclaimed water signs are in order.





This fish is for real. He and thousands of others live at the Scripp's Aquarium. Most of the fish were from the Pacific, from Alaska down to South America.







Really good margaritas while waiting for a table at George's, a popular restaurant in LaJolla. Here we are at our table overlooking the Pacific. Kind of felt like we were on a cruise. It was lovely and the food was great.





The girls went shopping while Ray read the NY Times in the car. You can do that in San Diego because it's only 65 degrees and cloudy, so no chance of heat stroke. Both Sara and Carrie decided to use the restroom at the same time. One of them used the men's room...... I think this has become standard operating procedure for women because we always have to wait for a stall. And that's just plain unfair. But I wonder what would happen if a man decided to use the womens' room! Would your reaction be different if you saw a guy coming out of the womens' rest room? Tell the truth. Let's see if we can get a few comments going.



Saturday was my mother's 82nd birthday. We all got together and sang happy birthday to her over the phone. Then we just relaxed at Sara's apartment.
Here's a pic of my mom on her birthday either last year or the year before.