San Diego Day 3

Oh I loved today (January 3rd) so much. We woke up late again and went down to the pier to the USS Midway. It is an old retired battleship on the harbor. We first went to a restaurant on the pier and had lunch. It was nice to sit and look out off the pier and into the bay. Also by the USS Midway and restaurant is a large statue of the famous war picture after WWII of the sailor kissing the nurse. I was hoping to get a picture of Enoch and I kissing like that in front of it but there was nobody around to take our picture. Oh well. All around the USS Midway are statues of military and war memorials. We paid $18 a piece to go take a headset tour of the ship. We were on the ship for almost 3 hours and would have loved more time on it but it closed and everybody was kicked off. I was so sad to leave. We loved all of it. Enoch and I had so much fun. I took so many pictures of the ship. We went and saw were all of the sailors slept, the kitchen, the captains cabins, flight instruction rooms, barber shop, hospital, jail, you name it we saw it. I really wish that we could have had 2 more hours on it. The whole flight deck has tons of planes and helicopters in it. It was so fascinating all of it. I will be honest that at first I thought that it would only take an hour or so to see it all. Not at all. We wanted to listen to everything we could about it. Loved it all. We also saw an amazing sunset on the ship. It was beautiful.

After the USS Midway we went and drove across the large bridge to Coronado Island. It is a pretty high and long bridge to the Island. It was cool to go over it and see the city scape.

When we got back to our hotel we went out to eat at this really awesome pizza place in the Gaslamp district that makes gluten free pizza. We got a BBQ chicken gluten free pizza and then an amazing Greek Salad. It was so good that we bought a jar of it to take home with us. We had to wrap it really well to have it fit into our suitcase.

After dinner we went to the Garibaldi chocolate store and have ice cream. It was so good. I loved the atmosphere as well of the whole place. It was really fun to sit and share a Sunday together.

When we got back to our hotel we noticed that the TV was on to a weird station and that our bed was not the way we left it with blankets. We started freaking out that somebody had been in our room. We kept going through the evening before we left for dinner and trying to remember if we moved our pillows and left the TV on. We finally decided to go downstairs and talk to the front desk. I was not going to sleep in the room if somebody had been there. Well we went down and told the front clerk that this might sound funny but we thought that somebody had been in our room. We told about what had happened and he right a way said he knew what it was. Earlier in the day we found out that if we signed up to be a club member for free we got free internet. It would have been nice to have had 3 days before and not had to call Chuck all the time. Well as part of being a club member they also have a pull down service in the evenings. They come in and pull down your blankets, take most of your pillows off, turn one lamp on and turn the TV on to soothing music. We laughed when we found out we laughed pretty hard and the front clerk said that we were not the first ones to come and think that somebody was in their room. We felt pretty dumb but were really happy to know that it wasn't somebody going through our things in our room.

After this ordeal we got ready to go swimming. They have an outdoor heated pool. When we left to go swimming we were wearing our robes (they had nice bathrobes in our room) and when we walked out of the room we realized that neither one of us had the room key. I laughed so hard. I told Enoch right a way that I was not going down to the lobby in my bathrobe. We could not stop laughing. I found a phone near the elevators that worked though and was able to call down. They called somebody up to bring us a key.

Once we had our key we headed to the pool. The hot tub had people in it so we just played in the pool. We had so much fun. The pool was a lap type pool. There were stairs across one whole side of the pool and then the pool was the same depth. We spent the whole time in the pool racing each other from one side to the other. We didn't swim though we did it where we could only use our arms and other ways. We also had a handstand contest. We laughed the whole time. I am sure the people in the hot tub thought that we had been drinking something.

I was sad to have to leave the pool because I knew that when we got back to our room we were going to have to pack up. We were leaving the next day to head to Phoenix to the Fiesta bowl. I was excited for the Fiesta bowl but I loved San Diego. If California wasn't so messed up and everything so expensive I would move to San Diego in a hear beat. Everybody needs to go and take their families. We already have talked about taking the kids eventually.