November 30, 2009
I left my house at 8:00am to fly to Sterling, VA (Washington Dulles Airport) for a meeting at the FHWA Eastern office. Flights to/from Dulles are often full of business travelers and they are often over sold flights. I was hoping to get a free flight (give up my seat) to use when my sister and I go on a cruise in March...I was soooo close, but no luck this time. The United agent told me she had me booked on the next flight but she just needed to get my the free flight voucher. I said OK and was waiting around. Then this lady comes walking OFF of the airplane (weird) and I was then told that she couldn't go on the flight because she was having an anxiety attack and they didn't need me to give up my seat anymore...dang it! I was seated in business class "for my troubles". I would have much rather gotten the free ticket. I do travel a lot but I've never sat in business class. It is basically what first class is on "regular"/smaller airplanes. The stewardess came up to me and asked me if I'd be eating lunch and I said "what do you mean" (what a dumb thing to say) and she said "I mean, will you be eating lunch" (duh) then I said "Do you mean like buying a box meal" and she said "No, we are serving a chicken salad". OK, I had NO idea they served free lunch in business class...live and learn (and look dumb at the same time). Anyway, it was a good flight and I got to watch the movie Four Christmases. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369436/
On the way to the rental car building the rental car shuttle got pulled over by a police officer. That was a first for all of us on the shuttle to experience. We didn't know what had happened. The officer came to the window and said "do you know you almost hit my vehicle." The shuttle bus driver got a ticket for a reckless lane change! Wow, I was surprised but at the same time happy that a police officer actually held someone accountable for reckless driving.
November 30, 2009
November 28, 2009
Moving Along...
November 25 to 27, 2009
On November 25 we packed up the car and headed back to Phoenix. The trip went smooth and we stopped in Yuma, AZ at the Yuma State Historic Park for lunch. When we arrived in Phoenix we headed straight to the grocery store to get food for our Thanksgiving dinner. We spent Thanksgiving in Phoenix and had a great dinner, which included an awesome fruit pizza. I think we will make that a new Thanksgiving tradition! It was 80 degrees Thanksgiving day and I think that was a first for all of us, we are used to snow and cold. On Friday we couldn't pass up the opportunity to shop on "black Friday" so we checked out all of the ads and decided on a couple of places we wanted to go. We were at Kohl's at 4:00am and we were in line to check out around 4:20am and we waited in line for one hour, yep one hour! I don't know how that many people could find what they wanted and get in line only 20 minutes after the store opened! The wait was worth it though because we got some pretty good deals. My flight left Phoenix on Friday at 2:50pm and I made it back to Denver in one piece. It was a great vacation for all of us!
On November 25 we packed up the car and headed back to Phoenix. The trip went smooth and we stopped in Yuma, AZ at the Yuma State Historic Park for lunch. When we arrived in Phoenix we headed straight to the grocery store to get food for our Thanksgiving dinner. We spent Thanksgiving in Phoenix and had a great dinner, which included an awesome fruit pizza. I think we will make that a new Thanksgiving tradition! It was 80 degrees Thanksgiving day and I think that was a first for all of us, we are used to snow and cold. On Friday we couldn't pass up the opportunity to shop on "black Friday" so we checked out all of the ads and decided on a couple of places we wanted to go. We were at Kohl's at 4:00am and we were in line to check out around 4:20am and we waited in line for one hour, yep one hour! I don't know how that many people could find what they wanted and get in line only 20 minutes after the store opened! The wait was worth it though because we got some pretty good deals. My flight left Phoenix on Friday at 2:50pm and I made it back to Denver in one piece. It was a great vacation for all of us!
Cabrillo and Mission Beach
November 24, 2009Today was a day for the beach. In the morning we went to Cabrillo National Monument, yep I went to a park on my day off! We watched a short movie and then walked up to the lighthouse. There is a really great view of San Diego from Cabrillo. We then went down by the tide pools and enjoyed the view for awhile. I found another sign of someone falling with their hands up in the air...I'm starting to see a pattern here with this sign and the Blue Ridge signs I saw.
We then headed North and went to Mission Beach. We spent a few hours there and could have spent more time there but it was late afternoon and we wanted to head downtown by the dock where the USS Midway (aircraft carrier) is located. 
San Diego Zoo
November 23, 2009No trip to San Diego is complete without a day at the San Diego Zoo. This zoo is pretty big and we spent the whole day there. We headed over to the pandas first thing to avoid the lines that usually form later in the day. They had two pandas we could see but there was a baby in the "back" but shown on a TV screen. I think my favorite animals were the meerkats but we saw many animals, too many to name them all. We also went to a sealion show. It was a long but fun day. 
Balboa Park - San Diego
November 22, 2009Today we went to Balboa Park which is next to the San Diego Zoo. http://www.balboapark.org/. We walked around the park and had lunch and then watched a performance at the Spreckles Organ Pavilion. Here is some information about the organ "John D. and Adolph Spreckels donated the Spreckels Organ, one of the world's largest outdoor pipe organs, to the City of San Diego in 1914 for the Panama-California Exposition. This unique organ contains 4,530 pipes ranging in length from the size of a pencil to 32 feet and is housed in an ornate vaulted structure with highly embellished gables." In the photo is me, Isaac (in the stroller) and Ben with Zach. My friend Jamie was taking the photo.
After spending time at the park we headed over to Coronado Island to see the Hotel Coronado. It is an amazing hotel right on the beach. We got there at sunset and took some really great photos. The historic hotel is defiantly a sight to see and I'm glad that I was not the one who had to drive us across the long bridge to get to the island! 
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