Photo Essay III: San Diego
Yesterday I was talked into going to San Diego with the family (well my parents) to visit my brother nibot and see the sights. I should have realized this would mean spending hours at the beach. But at least I got a lot of pictures.
You can see this same photo essay with a few bonus pictures in photobucket, but because photobucket is lame it scrambled it somewhat out of order. Also the pictures will be bigger tehre if you want to see bigger versions.
Photo Essay: San Diego
11:20 - this rather crappy picture from the car window is just for reference as this is the San Onofre nuclear power station referenced earlier.
12:15 - Mother and Father patiently wait after summoning nibot from the dark recesses of his lair. Eventually I had to call him and inform him "Roust yourself out of bed, hide the evidence of your alcoholic habits, and get the disreputable females out the back door, we are here." Several minutes later he came to the door (608 on the left there).
Immediately after opening the door Tobin resumed his previous state on a conveniently located couch. Notice the diagram of how to remove lasagna on one of the three whiteboards visible.
Eventually he gathered enough energy to check his email. This in turn gave him enough energy to function in a nominally acceptable manner for daily activities. Also notice that the physical manifestation of splorg.org is in the foreground on the right. When you go to splorg.org you are accessing the computer pictured. Also note there are two more whiteboards visible, making a total of five in this room captured on camera, I forget if there were more.
Then we walked to Tobin's favourite mexican restaurant. The burrito I had there caused my lip to swell up (upper left side). Tobin probably planned this well in advance.
1:50 - Next we went to Balboa Park, an area of museums, arboretums the San Diego Zoo (I'm waiting for Kristy to visit to make an expedition into the zoo itself).
Here Tobin (nibot), Mother (furzicle), and Father can be seen trotting towards the arboretum (pic 2). Inside I saw more than one person taking pictures of the botanical oddities with their camera-phones.
Also they have the world's largest organ at Balboa Park. We were shocked to find an old lady playing with it.
4:00 - Finally we spent most of the day at the beach at La Jolla Shores. Tobin and Paternal Unit are in the foreground wearing black and green swim trunks, respectively. For extra points find them.
This is the point the fireworks were launched from. As you can see we had a clear view of it, which was excellent.
And there was this pier at the end of the beach but it was part of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (where Tobin currently works) and closed to the public.
Did someone leave the faucet on? I'm told this is probably more or less sea water pumped for one reason or another by the Scripps Institute. I gave it the smell test and it didn't score very highly however.
I walked all the way around the corner beyond the pier and came upon this secret fortress. It appears to be a private residence.. and only connected to the outside world by that trolly track going up the cliff!! (Well and the beach as well)
" Who says money doesn't bring happiness and a sweet ass personal rail system?" (Steved). Remember the lower right hand corner of this picture.
Note the falcon on the roof. I thought it was just one of those stuffed things they put on roofs to scare away seagulls, until it took a crap. Another picture of the tram-way and falcon, and two more of the beach fortress itself: 1, 2.
Alright remember the lower right hand corner of that other picture? I was walking over there and very nearly stepped on Boldric here.
"OMG WTF - someone's taking a picture of me??" As you can see, Boldric is alive.
Yes I named him myself. Note the seal belly button. And the cute little seal ears in the previous picture. Please be respectful and do not note the seal private parts. (= and on that note here's a sign Boldric apparently missed:
Then I walked back. This is just on the far side of the pier from the main beach.
This picture doesn't do justice to this excellent sound castle.
People were still in the water in force when it got a might chilly out there.
No Independance Day would be complete without the ginormous flying saucers coming through the clouds.
And eventually there was nothing left to do but sit and wait for the fireworks. Yes I never changed into swim trunks, because I hate the beach.
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Song of the Day: Zombies vs Pirates by trembyle's band, Momsex. I highly recommend downloading it from the link given here, it is excellent, and about pirates fighting zombies.