We made it home safely, not a bad flight. I’ll try to do a real post tomorrow.

We had a fabulous trip, and I can’t wait to go back.

Thanks everyone! We love you & we miss you already.

Thanks to Chris for having a link to this.

Brokeback To The Future

Back To The Future meets Brokeback Mountain.

Sigh. I’m having a wonderful time. I think we all are. Elijah loves having so many people to pay attention to him and fawn over him. I’ll work on getting some pictures up soon.

The marathon was a really neat experience. It was so much fun to watch (until the end), and to see Geoff and be able to cheer for him was awesome. Jen & Sean were great helping out with Elijah, driving all over San Diego, and Sean sharing with Geoff that he knew all that Geoff went through. Afterwards we aimed to go to In-N-Out, but with half the roads closed for the marathon, it just wasn’t gonna happen. We ended up at this diner called Brian’s. The food was yummy, and the portions were huge, I could have gone the rest of the day without food.

Sunday night we walked all along the harbor area taking in the sights and just getting fresh air. We had a small dinner out there, I had a salad, Geoff had clam chowder (in a bread bowl naturally). I can’t wait to get back to San Diego again, it’s such a neat town.

We drove safely (and in good time) up to Irvine. Geoff spent the afternoon at UCI (congrats Ryan!) and Cindy, Elijah & I took Amy out to lunch. Amy suggested Mustard (a deli) and I had a very tasty 3 cheese and pesto panini. I totally want a panini press now! I got all the wedding details then we dropped Amy back off at work and went to pick Abbie & Alec up from school. We had First Class Pizza for dinner, then Elijah went to bed, Cindy stayed here, and we took Abbie, Alyssa & Lexi to the church’s softball game. After softball, we met Alec, Ashley, Chris, Ali, & Kevin at Coldstone. It was a pretty good day.

Today should be more low-key. Elijah is napping, then we’ll go visit everyone at WCC this afternoon. At some point this week we have to get back to UCI because apparently they wanted to see me & Elijah as well.

Yes, I know about Roli. I wasn’t able to see the game, I’ll try and catch one this week. I was so upset, and a little mad about the whole thing. Now if the Oil pull this off (Jake says it could be a miracle), I will be impressed. I better get on praying (I’ve actually been praying for the Oilers the whole playoffs).

I’ll close with a quote from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Mr. Ryan: It seems to me the only thing you’ve learned is that Caesar is a “salad dressing dude.”

Geoff did it, he’s fine, doing well. We’re heading out to In-N-Out. I’m starving for food! He’ll probably blog later.

Okay, I have 10 minutes before my ride to the race gets here, so I’ll try to get out as much as I can.

I love San Diego. It’s beautiful. We got in late Friday night (late being 8pm) got settled in the hotel and asleep by 9:30. Didn’t sleep well, none of us. Both last night and the nigh before, Elijah slept so fitfully, he doesn’t get into deep sleep until 3am.

We checked out the expo at the convention center yesterday (got Geoff a new running hat), and then met up with Anna, Francesco & Julia at Balboa Park. You need a few days to see all it has to offer, had we more time, I would have wanted to see some of the museums there. As it was, we just had a picnic lunch which was lovely and spent time watching the kids.

Last night Cate, Kaisara, Jen & Greg met up with us in the Gaslamp district and we had dinner. Not the original dinner we planned, but a nice one nonetheless. The best part was we had so much time to talk. I really missed them. We’re gonna get together again later this week, so Elijah has a chance to crawl around, instead of us passing him once someone got tired.

It’s go time. Geoff is as ready as he can be. My ride (Sean & Jen coming down) will be here soon, and I have to get Elijah’s car seat out of our car. I hope to go down to the harbour area this afternoon. Geoff said he’ll want to keep moving.

Stay Classy San Diego!

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Ali & Kevin! Can’t wait to see you next week.

Celebrity Poker Showdown with the new Phil was just awkward. It was cheesy, and did not flow well. Perhaps he’ll get better. It might also help if Dave wasn’t as drunk.

I’m only 12 years late… I finally saw Speed. Yeah, I’d never seen it before. The acting was meh, the dialogue was bleh, but it had cool explosions. So overall, I’d say cheesy, but entertaining. 🙂

Wednesday I was feeling a little stressed about the trip, but today everything fell into place. Now I feel better. All I want now is for us to get a seat for Elijah on the plane, and I’ll be happy.

Last night I dreamt I was on the set of House, talking with the cast (specifically RSL). Geoff dreamt he was on Top Chef, and that he was Harold. He wins for weirdest dream.

I can’t wait to get to San Diego. Saturday we meet up with Geoff’s old UCI buds, and Saturday night, the godparents are coming down to help Geoff “carb up”. I found a neat restaurant I hope we can go to. Apparently it’s a chain (they have some in CO), and Greg really likes it there.

I’ll close with a quote from Speed so you get a taste of the cheesy writing. (No offense Joss)

Howard Payne: There’s gonna come a time, boy, when you will wish you never met me.
Jack: Mister, I’m already there!