San Diego!

After a great week in Charlotte for work, I flew back to the west coast to rendezvous with Ben in San Diego for vacation. I knew I was somewhere special when I was walking through the airport and passed this:

The sign says "Pet Relief."

San Diego's airport is practically downtown, so it's really weird walking around - every few minutes you hear an engine noise and look up to see a plane seemingly right on top of you.

My poor reflexes make it hard to get a well-framed shot, but this should give you an idea of how low the planes are.

A shot from a bridge outside the downtown area - planes aren't supposed to be that close to cities!!

Something else special we ran into downtown was this guy:

National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood

We looked it up later and found out NO MA'AM was an organization founded by Al Bundy in Married With Children, so we were relieved that the t-shirt was a joke... probably. Because the second hit was for the NO MA'AM subreddit, and boy are they not joking. Yeesh.

Yesterday was our first full day here, and we went to Coronado Beach, mostly because I wanted to see the famous Hotel Del Coronado. It opened in the 1880s, and is one of the oldest and largest all-wooden buildings in the US.

You can see a giant golden bow on the left-most tower, for the hotel's recent 125th birthday.

After we finished gawking, we spent the rest of the day laying around on the beach doing nothing. It was glorious.

Here's to seven more days of doing nothing!