So here's "The rest of the story..."

Emily wrote about our wonderful trip to Disneyland with her family. Check out her blog. It's great! Going with four adults and four kids is the way to go! We had such a great time. Somebody with whom to share every experience. I loved being partners with Tatum most of the time. Since she wasn't big enough for many rides and I got motion sick on the bus going to Disneyland, she and I had a great time waving at everybody as they whirl around. It was such a fun time.

After the Stewarts left for home, we traveled down the coast to San Diego. We stopped on our way at Capistrano Mission. It was a beautiful place and we enjoyed wandering around it for an hour or so.

It was a wonderful old mission and you all know how I love a good ruin!

Speaking of a couple of old ruins, here we are enjoying the trip.
Our first try at the "hold the camera out and shooting" method so perfect by Scott and Jenna on our French vacation.

Then it was on to Oceanside, just to remember our fun trips there.

Anybody recognize the condos?

That was a fun memory for us.

Sadly, a fire had closed down the Ruby's (it's open again now) on the pier. Still a lot so fishmen and smelly fish to see. But we hadto eat "pain and fromage" on a little bench near the codos we stayed in.

We enjoyed San Diego and so many of the places we'd been as a family years before.

We loved seeing........................

Old Town with it's great little Mexican restaurant and

cute shops. The Mormon Battalion Memorial is closed for remodeling.

Seaport village was fun, if you don't mind watching the "ships
crash into the Coronado bridge."

We also visited the "Del" on Coronado Island and Mission Bay. (We even drove through Campland by the Bay. (It's just as white trash as ever and we loved it!), Balboa Park.etc.

And then we saw a new favorite for Brent. The USS Midway.

Does anybody remember the time we spent on the Queen Mary? You remember giving me a hard time about how much time I spent looking at things.

Well.................................................................................................., that's nothing compared to

FOUR HOURS WE SPENT ON THE MIDWAY.

Brent needed to see every inch of it.

I must admit it was interesting. We saw planes of the vintage that Keith Strong flew and hear old, retired pilot volunteers talk about their life on the ship. They gave us a very good picture of life as a Sailor. (I choose to be the Admiral and not the enlisted man. Admirals had a life of being pampered. Enlisted men were like Rats in a cage. Yuck!

San Diego was a great, relaxing end to our trip. Crazy fun with the Stewarts and then low key relaxing for the old folks on their own. Summer is sure fun!