On the outside, I try to project an image of having it all together. But underneath that, I'm kind of a disaster. Hence... the name of the site: GlossyVeneer. Our 3rd day in San Diego started really early… for me. I got up at 5:00 AM so I could go for a run with one of my running blog friends. It was awesome to get the chance to run along Mission Bay & Mission Beach.
After I got cleaned up and we headed to The Eggery for breakfast, a recommendation from Kristin from Meringue Bake Shop. I got a yummy scramble, but I hate that the item that sounded the most appetizing to me was called “Doctor’s Choice.” Why couldn’t it have just been “Veggie Scramble with Whole Wheat English Muffin?” I would feel less dorky ordering that than I did saying the name “Doctor’s Choice.”
The next stop was the USS Midway tour. I had no idea what we were getting in to on this one, but when we walked up I was a little surprised that tickets were $17 a person.
We started the tour and I learned that everyone gets their own headset/audio box. Basically it’s a self-guided tour, there are signs with numbers printed on them at periodic stops around the ship. You enter that number into your audio box and a narrator tells you what you are seeing. There are small, tight spaces and it’s pretty amazing how much they cram into that ship. Yes, the ship is MASSIVE, but it’s still got a ton of little rooms packed in there. The tour took us nearly 4 hours. FOUR HOURS! I truly had no idea that we’d end up spending that much time there and I was starving. We didn’t even listen to the descriptions of all the planes on top of the ship because I was getting to the point where I was done with that tour.
Throughout the ship there are mannequins in place to mimic some of the actions that might take place in that spot. In the Post Office on the ship there was a man who’s job was to stand at the counter looking down at a letter in his hand. As we were walking by he looked up at me and said, “How are you today?” I just replied, “I’m fine,” then walked on. But then I paused and realized that he was supposed to be surprising unsuspecting people and my reaction (or non-reaction) was rather amusing to him. As we were looking at some of the other displays in that same area, we saw him do the same greeting to a boy who was about 13 and that kid SCREAMED like a little girl. Hilarious. The tour also had some hidden mannequins that were rather humorous.
When the tour was over we headed over to Ocean Beach to grab some burgers from Hodad’s. We went there nearly 2 years ago when we were in San Diego before. Yummy fries.
Then we decided to go to a movie theatre we saw and catch the first movie that was showing. We ended up seeing The Proposal. Post movie I needed a little “real food” before we got some frozen yogurt for dessert. So we stopped a Corner Bakery Cafe and grabbed a salad before heading to Yogurtland.
It felt like a pretty full day.
