She Who Will Be Obeyed!: My Vacation Part I

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August 26, 2005

My Vacation Part I

I had never been to San Diego and really wanted to go there. John had been there once, probably 15 years ago. Well, John had a chance to take a one-day class there, so we decided to build our vacation around that fact that his airfare and two nights of hotel would be paid for....

So last Friday, after I finished putting together the Carnival of the Recipes, John and I headed off to the airport to catch our Southwest flight to San Diego.

After the somewhat interesting landing at the San Diego Airport (I'm told that it was a 'normal' landing for that airport), we found our luggage and our rental car. Eventually we made our way to the Embassy Suites in La Jolla (I forgot to bring directions and the map that Avis gave us showed a route that did not exist) and got settled in.

DaGoddess picked us up and we all went out to eat at Trophy's - nice place. We talked and talked and talked.

On Saturday, Joanie called early and gave us directions to her house so we could pick her up on the way to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. We parked and I immediately started taking pictures of the unfamiliar flora.

This tree, for example, has a very yellow color - and doesn't seem to really have any bark, or at least what we in the Great Flyover states consider as bark, but it does have thorns!

Mind you, that was in the parking lot. Fortunately, we have a 1 GB memory card in the camera, so I could take a lot of pictures - many more to go, folks.

Joanie got us in free because she gets a yearly pass. Thank you Joanie!!!!
First we went to see some birds:

This guy makes me think of James Brown when they throw that cape over his shoulders and he rises ...