Almost home

The news today is just beyond belief. 
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/largest-single-group-migrants-ever-tunnels-under-border-114208863--abc-news-topstories.html  376 people crawl under a fence (yeah, we already have a sort-of wall) and turn themselves in to Border Patrol officers.  Wow!  What a world, huh?

Well, I was going to write about hitting San Diego and LA on our cruise.  Of course our son and daughter-in-law live in the San Diego area but they were working and it's not like we never see them so we made no attempt to get together.  We came into port early so got to see the Star of India all lit up.

 We were right across from the Naval Yard on Coronado Island of course.

 We walked around the downtown area that we seldom visit.  It was pretty cool actually.  We got to visit the railway station that my wife remembers from her childhood.

And the YMCA where she learned to swim.  We aren't sure if there was a YWCA then or not or maybe they just didn't have a pool.  It was quite a while ago (she's not as old as I but......).

Yeah, the Y is pretty Armed Forces oriented since the Navy is such a big part of San Diego. 

Anyway, we had fun walking around seeing places she remembers but hasn't visited since she was a kid.  The bus system was excellent back in the day and she could visit anywhere for a dime.  She spent a lot of time at the zoo, Balboa Park and the museums all around town. 

In the evening the ship headed off for LA.  Cruise ships have to turn around quickly when the cruise ends so passengers were to be off the ship by 08:30 in the morning.  So we don't have lots of photos from LA.  Like none that are worth sharing!  We had a VERY LONG wait to get on a bus that promptly got stuck in traffic going to the airport.  And at the airport we had to stop at every terminal on the chance that someone needed to get off the bus so in was about noon before we got to our terminal:  7th out of 8!  We did find a bar and have some great chicken tenders and a couple of drinks.  Finally got our 45 minute flight to Vegas and made it home about 15:00.  What a wonderful day. 

There were a couple interesting things on the cruise that I haven't talked about.  One was a visit to the galley.  There were something like 2,500 people wanting to eat three meals a day on the ship.  The galley was pretty good sized but they didn't waste much room on the walkways.

One of the things we did on days at sea was attend a photography class.  The teacher was a former professional photographer from England.  He tried to give us ideas about improving our pictures.  It was a pretty simplistic sort of class but I'm thinking most of the folks learned something.  In this example he was posing with a woman from the class in a manner he suggested you might use for children.

You can judge for yourself the quality of the class!

Anyway, that was the cruise.  I'll probably come up with a few more thoughts but since we've been home for a month I suppose I should get on to 'real life'.  Thanks for stopping by.  Take care.