i'm writing to you from san diego california!
i'm pretty excited to be here. local time is 7:26 am.
i flew with marilyn. on our way here we stopped in chicago. it was a really lovely city to see from overhead. all the neighbourhoods are set up diagonally and there are big mature trees filling the whole city. i liked that there were also so many baseball diamonds. we were there for 2 hours. i picked up a book (that i've been looking for for a long time) and a chicago magnet at the airport and am high way thru the book already!
the flights were fine, only they didn't feed us at all (we ate well at the airport though). we flew over the rockies which was really beautiful. i think mountains are my favourite things to see from a plan. it was around 5:30 when we arrived in san diego. it was also a really beautiful city to see from above. so hilly and neighbourhoods and areas are built up into the hills, it's pretty neat. it wasn't hot when we arrived, but i did read that it gets chilly in the evening. i think it's going up to 21 C today. i'm planning on going swimming in the beautiful outdoor pool after i'm finished here.
so, you might be wondering... "what are you doing there anyways?" well i'll tell you. i'm at a conference and exhibition. bbd will have a booth about its train to plane solutions, and we're having a customer event on tuesday evening. i'm excited because i've been designing all the booth graphics for the last 8 years and it will be neat to see what the finishe product looks like in real life and to have a better idea of how things work. it's also a great opportunity for me to get to know colleagues from different cities. last night marilyn and i went out for drinks and dinner with 3 people from pittsburgh. it was really fun. we went to this italian restaurant that serves homemade pasta - SO GOOD! it was quite possibly the best pasta i've ever had. delicious! unfortunately that was at 9:00 here time, and 12:00 home time. to be honest, i'm not feeling quite so "bikini body" this morning for swimming. it's going to be challenging to monitor my eating while i'm here. i should've brought some rice cakes :S
our hotel is very lovely. the bathroom is great and i enjoyed lying in my comfortable sheets watching my big screen tv last night. i tried to stay up to a regular time so i wouldn't wake at 4 but it didn't work.
last night on the way home from the restaurant we stopped at a 24-hour grocery store. i bought some chapstick because my lips always dry out when i travel and i left mine at home. (that reminds me, i also left my toothbrush. i packed it but then took it out to use it and must have forgotten to repack it. i'll ask for one at reception, they usually keep things like that in stock) i handed over my american change and it turns out there were a few canadian coins (4 pennies 1 dime) and the woman refused to take them. we regularly use american change at home if it gets in the mix. how weird! she said to me "these are canadian", so i said "sorry about that, i'm canadian".
i'm looking forward to exploring a bit more. apparently our hotel is right on the ocean. on the way here in the taxi we passed the marina and i saw a massive naval ship the size of a large city block with planes and helicopters on it. it was surreal.
when i flew into chicago i had sufjan stevens stuck in my head. and we arrived in san diego i had pedro the lion.
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