John and I took off after xmas to sunny lovely California! After a long long long drive we arrived at San Diego around 1:30 in the morning. We stayed with Eelia and her hubby Dale and I got to check out their home. They bought it two years ago and have put a lot of effort into renovations. Dale has perfected his tile skill and the garage was beautifully organized! We went around San Diego and visited a huge battleship — The Midway. John and Dale enjoyed looking at the airplanes and stuff. Eelia and I just kinda wandered. There was a lot of people, we walked down into the engine room where if someone was clastrophobic, they could easily freak out. It made me feel tall!
Then it was time for lunch, the theme for that meal was “meat.” The choosen place was a Brazilian steakhouse. This made John very happy. He had spent a year teaching there and and missed this ethnic delight. Basically it is a buffet where you pick veggies and other stuff but young men wearing white with fetching red neckties wander around with huge skewers of MEAT. There is a small wooden figure on your table that had red on one side and green the other. When you want MEAT you flip the figure to green and the MEAT comes to you. At lunch there are 7 varieties of MEAT and we tried them all, chicken wrapped in bacon, short ribs, pork loins, filet minon wrapped in bacon, ham and two others that escape me right now. It was MEATalicious.
We then went back to their house and rested. Since John and I had to get up at 5:30 the next day, it was an early night.
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Uhm, the Midway is an aircraft carrier, not a battleship. That’s why it has a flight deck rather than a bunch of really big guns (big enough to send a one-ton shell more than 20 miles).
Interestingly, the nation’s last two battleships are in reserve status, one in Virginia and the other, the Iowa, anchored in Suisuin Bay (you can see it from the freeway on the way to Martinez). There are plans to completely decommission those ships in whcih case the Iowa, it appears, would end up as a museum in—Stockton? How weird is that?
It would be a gritty aircraft carrier!
The other course Chris forgot was sausage – poss. two types. BUT there was much in the way of MEAT. I sure was glad to have her visit. The last time had been about 3 years ago.
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