Last week was a glorious one for one main reason: I only went to work for 1.5 days. Monday was a holiday and Wednesday we left for a trip to San Diego to visit my brother.
Bro-ter, as I like to call him, was graduating from recruiting school for the marines (much to his dismay- no one really wants to be a recruiter. It's like being a missionary except without any of the spiritual blessings associated with religion and a lot of cold calls and public speaking. Yuck). And since I'd never had the pleasure of visiting a military base, we popped in for the occasion.
Our first night there we stayed on base in "billeting," which is a weird word for fancy barracks for soldiers on a short-term stay or their visiting families. Think dorm room circa 1960. After bro-ter's graduation, we hung around San Diego with him until his flight left. Although I felt a bid morbid doing so with a marine brother, we spent about an hour wandering around a navy cemetery, pristinely located on a peninsula overlooking the bay and Pacific ocean. Beautiful.
The next day the sun finally succumbed to my pleadings and showed its face for a few hours in the afternoon.
It was here that we spent my favorite part of the trip: watching the sea lions and seals sun themselves. They looked like big dead blobs on the beach, but I assure you, they were very much alive. I NEED one.
We also visited the statue modeled after the famous picture of the sailor kissing a nurse. There was a posse of teenage Italian students that arrived there just before us, and like all Italians, they dominated the whole area with their loud Italian chattering while their chaperon directed each of them to imitate the famous kiss. I think ours beat theirs.
5 comments:
I can't believe you put a picture of you and Travis kissing on your blog!! Woozers! Glad you guys had a nice trip, sorry you got stuck in the snow on the way back.
OH! How I love San Diego, so glad you guys were able to go!
Cute pictures of you Kelly!
*P.S. Can trip #2 be to Sacramento? It may not be as exciting as San Diego, but we'll put you up in a much nicer place compared to the 1960s dorms! :)
Your's does beat theirs! Love it!
Ah billeting...so much fun. You know, there is a military base here in Turkey, in case you want to visit another one. You might like it.....Love the kissing picture. Since you would like a seal and you probably aren't getting one, you should watch The Secret of Roan Inish. Especially since St Patrick's Day is coming up. We're thinking of naming the new baby Kelly Ann Hill Zirker Greer. What do you think?
Wait, you and Trav kiss each other?!? (Just kidding!)
Looks like you had a fun trip, aside from the snow. It was fun to see the pics.
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