San Diego was great, thanks to Cheryl and Lianne and their respective SOs for showing my coworker and me a fine and lovely time. Cheryl and Ben took us for Peking Duck at their favorite Chinese place, which was amazingly child-friendly.  Sami was very entertaining and the waiters just maneuvered around her with aplomb.  That duck was really good, too.  Then Lianne and Ben met us in the Gaslamp Quarter (which has no actual gaslamps), and we had drinks and dinner at a pub.  Excellent.
We also walked by the bar where the famous scene from Top Gun was filmed.  You know it's that bar because it has a sign next to the door that says "Sleazy Bar Scene from Top Gun Filmed Here, 1985". Awesome.
Our first day there was rainy and cold, but after that it cleared right up - but I broke my sunglasses. Doh.
I got a fun and exciting handbag printed with octopi. I was going to get the skull-and-crossbones one, but it wasn't as nice. I also got some awesome socks with a Quilter Girl on them. Photos to come when I get a camera.
I do wish I'd had a camera in San Diego, the colors and the light were quite amazing. But since I didn't have a camera, I spent a lot more time just enjoying the sunshine and the fun buildings and walking through the city.

There is a hotel downtown with a beach bar on the roof.  Even in the middle of downtown with a waxing moon in the sky, the stars were astonishingly clear. While hanging out by the bonfire on the hotel roof's beach bar, we met several other Texans in town for a pharmaceuticals meeting. Coincidence, or Texas Social Magnetism? You decide. Fun times.

I drank ten metric tons of coffee while at the conference, which was dumb. I did not drink any caffeine at all yesterday, which was verging on idiotic.  Now I have a horrid withdrawal headache. Attempting to stave off the worst of it by applying fresh caffeine and acetaminophen.  Oh, woe, my bubbling boiling brains.

In other news, it's Girl Scout Cookie Time! Yay Lemonades! They are my new favorite cookie.

Ah, my cache processing is done now, back to work.

Aren't we cute?

The World's Tallest Statue of an American Hero is in Huntsville, TX, keeping watch over Interstate 45. Mom and I stopped to visit on our way to Dallas.
See more of our trip to see Cheryl and Sami!