Our Birthday Activities

F l e e t   W e e k  usually occurs around our birthday, and this year the planes were going thru their practice runs on our day. We took rapid transit up to the City, and spent a lovely afternoon walking around, having lunch at our favorite restaurant there, and watched the fly-overs!

Like a picture postcard.

An interesting "sculpture"  Luckily the backside of the art had the name and description.

Our friend Scotty joined us on our adventure. Here he is being silly in front of the sculpture.

Joyce joined him ... aaawww, so cute!

Turns out, it's a war memorial.

We need to get to the 39th pier .... and we're only at 1 right now.

Janet gets to be a marshall at this golf tournament going on this same weekend, right here in the city by the bay.

Ana's favorite book when she was young, the movie is coming out soon, and there is an exhibit on the author at the local museum.

The famous landmark ... the Transamerica Building

Acrobat planes doing their stunts .... did they know they were making a 9 in honor of our birthday on the 9th??

Of course we HAVE to go to this museum .... this is a new addition to the former military installation.

Joyce and Scotty posing in front of a very famous diner in town.

We want to go to this "circus" some day too.

We've ridden one of these land and sea vehicles in San Diego ... we need to take this ride at some point too.  Joyce says she just wants to take a month off, move up here, and do everything!!

This is a really fun activity too ... Ana hasn't gone here in over 20 years, so they really need to go (again) and see it.

And a restaurant to boot! Is this town a tourist destination or what!?

It's Columbus Day weekend, so this display in one of the cruise ship lobbies was no surprise.

Not sure what they were going for, but it's an interesting piece of art.

Ah, finally at our destination. We will eat here and watch the fly- overs.

Right next door is the aquarium. And this giant shark jaw was available for a photo op.

Beautiful weather, light winds ... such a great day for our birthday.

Ana likes the color scheme for the menu. And a part of the proceeds from their purchases go toward this worthy cause.

A mother and child humpback in this Wyland mural watch over the birthday mother & daughter. How appropos!

We were watching for the Angels between the patio umbrellas.

This was probably the famous maintenance C5A that goes everywhere with the Angels.

They fly fast, but we finally got one in the viewfinder.

Switching to video, we finally captured them in formation. This is one frame of that video.

Pro shots ... this is what they look like when you have a really good camera!

We got home by late afternoon so we could get dressed for our birthday dinner-&-a-movie (about couples going on a retreat - funny!) with more of our friends.

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