Shamu and School

San Diego
August 5 - 7, 2010

This week I went to San Diego with my sort of sister-in-law Jessie. Jess is my actual sister-in-law Joyce’s sister. Jess had an interview at a physical therapy school in San Marcos and wanted a travel buddy. As we all know, I’m always game for a trip, so I was happy to join her.

We left early in the AM on Thursday and arrived in SD shortly after 10am. Our first order of business was going to Sea World. I hadn’t been there since I was like 10 years old and Jess had never been. Sea World had grown considerably in the 18 years since I had been there. There were now a few roller-coaster rides and many more exhibits. My favorite things still hadn’t changed however. Watching the trained dolphin and Shamu shows were unreal. How you ever get that big of an animal to perform in such a way is beyond me. The shear athleticism of the animals is awesome too.

After five hours at Sea World we made our way North to Jess’ school to make sure we’d have no trouble finding it in the morning. Conveniently it was located very close to out hotel. For dinner we decided to do what people should do when in California and that’s have In-N-Out. It was delicious as always. Post dinner we went to the hotel and called it an evening.

Jess had to be to her interview early, so we got up, had breakfast and then I took her to campus. I then went back to the hotel, cleaned up and did some shopping at the Nordstrom Rack. Jess called at the conclusion of her interview, I picked her up, and then we did a little shopping. After that we met up with my cousins who live in Encinitas. We had a great time hanging out with the Phillips. First we went to the beach for a bit and then we had a great Mexican dinner. After dinner we hit the freeway and drove to our airport hotel. We had an early flight out, so we called it an early night. Overall Jess and I had a great 40 hours in San Diego...

Katy

Update: And now that she has been accepted to PT school, we’ll get to have many more. Congrats Jess!