Our Day in San Diego

So we went to Husband Man's sister's wedding this last weekend, and since I was already missing a day of school we decided we wouldn't go back home on Saturday like everyone else. Instead we decided we would stay in San Diego and enjoy ourselves for a day before returning to the humdrum of everyday life. Fabulous idea? I think so. After all, there's so much to see in San Diego, like the zoo and Balboa Park and the Maritime Museum and the Mormon Battalion Site and Old Town and- of course- the beaches! (And so much more!)


Did we do any of that?


We went to the Battalion Site, and... that's it. Oh, and a mall. And KFC and Dominoes.


I know, I know- that is appalling. Why? you're asking, Why???


 Because it rained.


The average rainfall for San Diego in November is one inch. The single day we had to spend together in San Diego, it rained 1.4 inches.


I was SO bummed. I still am.


We did drive around after dropping everyone else off at the airport and getting our rental car. (Our rental car was a newer Chevy Impala, by the way- the nicest car I've ever driven. And it was red. It was SO awesome.) I got to see the bay, and a GINORMOUS cruise ship (which I've never seen one, it was huge!!) and I saw the Maritime Museum but we didn't go (and we should have). We saw all the big buildings, and it took me a while to get adjusted to the fact that a lot of food places in downtown San Diego weren't in their own building, but rather on the ground floor of a high rise building. I even saw an Albertsons that was the bottom floor of a skyscraper!! It blew my mind! I felt like such a country hick, haha!


The Mormon Battalion site was way cool. We went there after driving around downtown and eating lunch (my first real meal since Thursday afternoon when we left for SLC airport). I never knew that the Mormon Battalion was something that benefited the saints in their journey west to the Salt Lake Valley. I loved the entire tour (and we had most of it to ourselves!). It doesn't even matter if you're LDS or not, it's a cool place to go.


After the Battalion site we decided we were going to drive the hour to the beach and hope that the rain let up for a few minutes so we could play. On the way there we saw a mall with some stores we had gift cards to, so we pulled off the freeway and managed to find our way there. We walked around in the rain because the walkway between stores wasn't covered, and over the course of our trip to the mall the rain got worse and worse. When we'd exhausted the mall, we gave up on the beach and the rain and decided to go to the hotel, where we spent the evening watching the last half of the Matrix, then walking around to a tiny grocery store hoping to find snacks so we wouldn't have to buy food on Sunday, and then eating pizza and watching the last half of Inception. And then we went to sleep.


And then we woke up and it was all bright and sunny. And I was mad at San Diego.


And this is the only picture we got the whole day. We were standing next to the Impala, returning it, and I said "I want a pic with the Impala!" and so Husband Man fished out the camera, probably a little exasperated, and snapped this.

He took it rather quickly, now that I think about it, and didn't let me look at it to make sure he actually got us in there. It was very bright and sunny. And then he was pushing me towards the shuttle so we could run through the airport to get on the plane.


The airport was funny too, because we checked our bags and then took our all our cell phones and mp3's and the mini laptop and our shoes and our belts (but not any of my jewelry this time) and our jackets and walked through security, right? And Husband Man goes first and it beeps and they pull him aside and wave me through. He got randomly selected for a pat down! I said as I walked by, "What did you do?!" So he takes his shoes and belt and jacket and walked away, leaving me with all our little stuff to deal with alone. I remember saying out loud, "Well, now what?" And then he came back and all was well again. And then we got on a plane and had really crappy turbulence and I peed myself the entire time because I'm not a huge fan of flying. And then we made it home...

...where I did homework.


And that was our day in San Diego. The end.