Vacation Part 2: Balboa Park & Nate
OK, so I left off back in San Diego on my last post...
The night after I got there, I made arrangements to meet up with Nate (raziel1313) at "Croce's Jazz Club" in downtown san Diego. It's a fabulous establishment, opened in honor of the late Jim Croce by his wife. If you have any upscale tastes what-so-ever, you must visit the blues side on Friday and Saturday nights. It's fabulous. I used to go there all the time when I lived in San Diego, and I had kind of forgotten how much I loved it. Anyway....back to the point...
Nate and I made plans to meet at Croce's, and as I sat listening to the band, and 2 hours, and 3 or 4 drinks later, I was beginning to worry. So as I sat there waiting, I was beginning to worry that Nate must have gotten there first, seen me, and decided that pictures are much more flattering to me and left. Even though it wasn't that kind of a date, it was all I could think of that would explain his not being there. Little did I know, he was driving all over San Diego trying to find me some cloves. <3 aww! OK, so the truth is, that he got lost, but I'd like to pretend it was the cloves he had in hand when he finally did show up. =oD
(He also scored some points for calling the club to get a message to me that he was on his way...=o)
Now I've known Nate online for about 3 - 3 1/2 years, and even though we'd go long periods without talking, we always remained friends, and well...it just is what it is...But I had a much different image of the man I thought I was meeting. Not that I thought he was a bad person before or anything, I just didn't realize how special he was, I guess.
So we had a drink there, and then went on to "The Bitter End" for a few more, but since he didn't show up until late, and we were getting along quite swell, we decided to head on over to Balboa Park to see the sights in the moonlight. We walked around (me in high heels...ugh) and talked for what had to be a couple hours, but time really flew. We even played on the playground a little which was quite fun I must say. (Kids these days have better toys on the playground lemme tell ya! I was pretty impressed.)
We finally decided to call it a night around 4:30 - 5am, and Nate when his way, and I went back to my mother's condo. (<--insert big fiasco the next morning with my mother here-->)
So the next night we made plans again to just stay in and play Scrabble, but I ended up being able to coax Nate into going out to a bar to visit some of my old friends, and of course again, we had a fabulous time...
One of the days we spent together, we went back to Balboa Park so Nate could see it in the daylight. Here we are on our great big alligator:
Isn't it the coolest statue EVER??? And another thanks to some nice tourists. =o)
I've been to Balboa park many times in my life, but the beauty of it never fails to amaze me. We found this great big tree in back of the botanical building, and I swear the branches could almost reach all the way to the moon.
Here we are sitting on one of the ROOTS. Now that's a big root if you ask me...
And any man with a cup of iced coffee in one hand, and a latte in the other deserves something special...*grins* So I finally gave Nate a piece of ass. =o)
I have NO idea why...but Nate was completely fascinated by the artists' attention to detail of the STALLION'S groin and rear areas. (weirdo) We had to go by the statue about 4 times, and he had to take a few pictures of it with his own camera. And even sat on a bench for about 15 minutes where we could view the "amazing detail"....I was beginning to worry about him at this point. I mean seriously...the obsessive compulsive thing he has going on was a bit much, (QUICK NATE, OPEN A WINDOW! TURN ON ALL THE FANS!!!) but this...well...this was almost too much. *sigh*
I don't know whether it's good or bad that my brakes went out, because I had planned on heading back to Pheonix to hang out with Jamison again, and also to meet up with Lilly, but ended up staying in San Diego for a few days longer than expected, so Nate and I ended up spending quite a bit of time together. (Long enough to kick his ass in a game of Scrabble, I might add.) =oD
Anyway...long story, cutting short...I had an absolute blast, and I think I stayed one day too long in San Diego. We spent tons of time just talking about politics, people, places, and pretty much everything there is to talk about. Nate kinda grew on me, and I usually do my best not to let that happen. Heck, we even got into a fight while I was there. How special is that? I just know if I had not stayed that one extra day, I wouldn't be missing him now. *sigh*
Well, I finally dragged myself away from San Diego, and after my car was fixed, I headed to pick up the kids in Montana.
Whew...I'm worn out...and speaking of kiddies, I'm going to go make some s'mores with them. I'll finish my vacation stories later. =o)
The night after I got there, I made arrangements to meet up with Nate (raziel1313) at "Croce's Jazz Club" in downtown san Diego. It's a fabulous establishment, opened in honor of the late Jim Croce by his wife. If you have any upscale tastes what-so-ever, you must visit the blues side on Friday and Saturday nights. It's fabulous. I used to go there all the time when I lived in San Diego, and I had kind of forgotten how much I loved it. Anyway....back to the point...
Nate and I made plans to meet at Croce's, and as I sat listening to the band, and 2 hours, and 3 or 4 drinks later, I was beginning to worry. So as I sat there waiting, I was beginning to worry that Nate must have gotten there first, seen me, and decided that pictures are much more flattering to me and left. Even though it wasn't that kind of a date, it was all I could think of that would explain his not being there. Little did I know, he was driving all over San Diego trying to find me some cloves. <3 aww! OK, so the truth is, that he got lost, but I'd like to pretend it was the cloves he had in hand when he finally did show up. =oD
(He also scored some points for calling the club to get a message to me that he was on his way...=o)
Now I've known Nate online for about 3 - 3 1/2 years, and even though we'd go long periods without talking, we always remained friends, and well...it just is what it is...But I had a much different image of the man I thought I was meeting. Not that I thought he was a bad person before or anything, I just didn't realize how special he was, I guess.
So we had a drink there, and then went on to "The Bitter End" for a few more, but since he didn't show up until late, and we were getting along quite swell, we decided to head on over to Balboa Park to see the sights in the moonlight. We walked around (me in high heels...ugh) and talked for what had to be a couple hours, but time really flew. We even played on the playground a little which was quite fun I must say. (Kids these days have better toys on the playground lemme tell ya! I was pretty impressed.)
We finally decided to call it a night around 4:30 - 5am, and Nate when his way, and I went back to my mother's condo. (<--insert big fiasco the next morning with my mother here-->)
So the next night we made plans again to just stay in and play Scrabble, but I ended up being able to coax Nate into going out to a bar to visit some of my old friends, and of course again, we had a fabulous time...
One of the days we spent together, we went back to Balboa Park so Nate could see it in the daylight. Here we are on our great big alligator:
Isn't it the coolest statue EVER??? And another thanks to some nice tourists. =o)
I've been to Balboa park many times in my life, but the beauty of it never fails to amaze me. We found this great big tree in back of the botanical building, and I swear the branches could almost reach all the way to the moon.
Here we are sitting on one of the ROOTS. Now that's a big root if you ask me...
And any man with a cup of iced coffee in one hand, and a latte in the other deserves something special...*grins* So I finally gave Nate a piece of ass. =o)
I have NO idea why...but Nate was completely fascinated by the artists' attention to detail of the STALLION'S groin and rear areas. (weirdo) We had to go by the statue about 4 times, and he had to take a few pictures of it with his own camera. And even sat on a bench for about 15 minutes where we could view the "amazing detail"....I was beginning to worry about him at this point. I mean seriously...the obsessive compulsive thing he has going on was a bit much, (QUICK NATE, OPEN A WINDOW! TURN ON ALL THE FANS!!!) but this...well...this was almost too much. *sigh*
I don't know whether it's good or bad that my brakes went out, because I had planned on heading back to Pheonix to hang out with Jamison again, and also to meet up with Lilly, but ended up staying in San Diego for a few days longer than expected, so Nate and I ended up spending quite a bit of time together. (Long enough to kick his ass in a game of Scrabble, I might add.) =oD
Anyway...long story, cutting short...I had an absolute blast, and I think I stayed one day too long in San Diego. We spent tons of time just talking about politics, people, places, and pretty much everything there is to talk about. Nate kinda grew on me, and I usually do my best not to let that happen. Heck, we even got into a fight while I was there. How special is that? I just know if I had not stayed that one extra day, I wouldn't be missing him now. *sigh*
Well, I finally dragged myself away from San Diego, and after my car was fixed, I headed to pick up the kids in Montana.
Whew...I'm worn out...and speaking of kiddies, I'm going to go make some s'mores with them. I'll finish my vacation stories later. =o)