this will not be a witty post.

... because it is after 11pm, and i am tired.
and because i am typing slowly and carefully, both because i don't want to disturb the sleeping husband beside me, and because i can't type very well in the dark so about every third letter is wromh. :P
(oh, and the pictures are all from my sony p&s.)

we are on our 2nd day of a lovely vacation in southern california, visiting joel's parents and visiting with each other for the first time in several months. the 18hr drive was pure conversational bliss. (especially since the weather was appropriate, unlike our last trip. see december 08 for that blog - i'm to tired to link it.)

we spent some time yesterday at joel's mom's bookstore, where harry the cat was lounging on the adding machine.

today has been a san diego day, with joel's dad steve and newly retired stepmom kumi. first we toured the midway, an aircraft carrier with an excessive amount of interesting history that i will probably remember tomorrow morning. feel free to look it up on wikipedia.

this is the ... um ... cockpit. except it's not called that. i was paying attention, really!

we are very high here. those planes are about 5 stories off the water and we are 3-4 stories from the planes.

next, we took a 2hr tour cruise of san diego bay. it was mostly a navy ship tour, since there are so many of them in the bay.

this is the u.s.s. nimitz, the first of the nimitz class of aircraft carriers that are used today. (see, i learned something!)
we didn't get to tour it.

this is where i would normally work up a witty ending.

...

'night!