I get to go to DL again? 2/24/08-3/3/08, Updated 9/11

Fun TR so far - you're in my 'hood! :) I actually WORK in one of those buildings that you fly right past when you're landing... it's just as freaky from the other side, hehe.

Glad you enjoyed Balboa Park! Love that place.
 
Thanks for joining me! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a bit. We're having a productivity contest at work and I've been leading the pack, so I've been working extra hours to maintain my standing!
 
Love those pics - thanks for sharing them! I would love to explore San Diego sometime.
 
I'm coming back to finish this! I'll try to work on it tonight. DBF is going to a bachelor party this weekend too, so I'll have a lot of free time.
 

I love your siggie picture. I'm excited about Robert as Edward, but I saw Jumper recently and the picture I created of Edward before hearing about Robert was more like the main actor in that. Umm... blanking on his name though. He was Anikan Skywalker too.
 
I love your siggie picture. I'm excited about Robert as Edward, but I saw Jumper recently and the picture I created of Edward before hearing about Robert was more like the main actor in that. Umm... blanking on his name though. He was Anikan Skywalker too.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN!!! Mmmmmm he's yummy! :love: It's so funny that you said that because my best friend and I said the exact same thing. Robert is going to do a great job though, I'm so excited.
 
Yes he is! Jumper was pretty stupid, but I was watching it telling DBF that he is the perfect Edward. Of course, he had no idea what I was talking about!
 
I have a goal of finishing this as quickly as possible. It will be more pictures that narrative. The trip was so long ago now, but I really want to complete this trip report.

On with the show...

After lunch, we made it back to our hotel and DBF went to his conference. I had every intention of going to the path along the bay and taking a nice long walk, but the long flight and my cold were catching up with me. I rested in the room and later went out to look around the hotel grounds before heading out for my walk. DBF found me however and he was just about done with the day's meetings (I guess I had rested longer that I thought). So rather than heading out for a walk I went back to the room to freshen up and make plans for the rest of the evening.

We decided to get seafood since, surprisingly, we were both already getting sick of Mexican food. We headed to the Fish Market. It was in a really nice location in the harbor area and right near downtown San Diego.

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My dinner: Zuppa di Pesche I believe
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DBF's fish and chips
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After dinner we headed over the the Gaslamp District.

I wasn't up for drinking or bars, but we walked around and enjoyed the area. I managed to snap a few pictures. I'm still not great with my camera at night, but here are a couple:

His old roommate was Fred the Mexican
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After wandering for a bit, we headed back to the hotel and I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.
 
My big plans for the day were to visit my first aircraft carrier. I am not exactly a Navy brat, but I grew up about 30 minutes from Groton, where the submarine school is. I have had my fair share of tours of subs. They're cool, but I've always wanted to see an aircraft carrier and Groton never had one of those.

So my big stop was The Midway!

(These are in no particular order)
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I was so excited that I got to see a Tomcat that I spent the rest of the tour singing "Highway to the Danger Zone". Too bad I hadn't brought my iPod with me since the soundtrack was on there.

I originally thought that I could do the whole tour in about 2 hours, but I ended up spending 5 hours there! I was having so much fun. I also got the chance to meet some people who had actually served on the ship. They had one area where they talked about landing and another one where they talked about taking off. You get to see the catapult and all the different technology that is used on the carrier.

If anyone has interest in the military or the navy especially, I highly recommend this.

For dinner that night we went to L&L Hawaiian BBQ. It is a chain restaurant, but it was delicious. If I had the money and the time I would open up a franchise here.

We also took a drive around to see Little Italy and we drove over to Hotel del Coronado. I kept telling him that the Grand Floridian was designed after that hotel.

Here's a couple pictures. I even got a good night shot!

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After that, we headed back to the hotel to get ready. As soon as DBF completed his conference the next day we were headed north to Anaheim and LA!
 
Hopefully I can update again tonight or tomorrow night.
 
Welcome back! Great update...

Hate to say it but looking at your seafood almost made me want to barf. :rotfl2: I hate eating or smelling anything that swims. LOL! Otherwise great report.
 
Sorry about that. I love shell fish. I grew up in New England and my fondest memories are going to the shacks on the Maine coast and getting a whole lobster dinner for $7.00.
 
I love your siggie picture. I'm excited about Robert as Edward, but I saw Jumper recently and the picture I created of Edward before hearing about Robert was more like the main actor in that. Umm... blanking on his name though. He was Anikan Skywalker too.

First of all, Hi! Great mini TR! I haven't gotten to the SD portion of my TR yet but I wish I would have checked these boards first and then had the sense to visit that Carrier ship (I forget the name all the sudden)! That thing looks so cool! :headache:

Ok, I just want to chime in that I thought a good Edward would have been the guy who played the bad guy in Spiderman... the young dude..

James Franco!
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I think I Pictured him because of the brooding thing he did in the Spidey movies. I know he's not QUITE right but I was happy to see the Edward they finally chose.. however! I love his british accent and I wish they would have used it for the movie.

OMG I can't wait. popcorn:: :rolleyes1 :sad2: :rolleyes:


HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN!!! Mmmmmm he's yummy! :love: It's so funny that you said that because my best friend and I said the exact same thing. Robert is going to do a great job though, I'm so excited.

I do not picture Edward as an innocent American Blondie (aka Hayden Christensen)! Isn't it funny how different we create our characters in our heads??? So funny! :laughing:

I'm so excited!! (SAD!!!!!!!) :rolleyes:
 
In Jumper he has darker hair. I just saw him and was like "OMG that's Edward!" I still love R Pat though!
 
In Jumper he has darker hair. I just saw him and was like "OMG that's Edward!" I still love R Pat though!

I was at Hot Topic yesterday and saw the "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" t-shirts... my husband nearly bought me one. :lmao:

He's so cute! (My DH) :lovestruc

I went to look at the trailer for Jumper... Hayden looks definitely different with darker hair.. still too "all american" for my version of Edward. I like James Franco and R Pat's sort of bad boy looks. More brooding.

That's the trouble with books and movies..everybody's got such specifics in their mind. I sort of noticed on an ad for Twilight the movie that one of the characters was wearing a bad wig.. like back when they made "Flowers in the Attic" into a movie.. OMG that movie was FILLED with bad wigs!!!! :rotfl2:

Anyway, sorry to ramble on...!!!
 
This day was lots of fun for us! DBF's boss had requested tickets for the Tonight Show. Since he wasn't able to make the trip, he gave them to us. I had called ahead and they recommended to us to get in line by 3 pm. Luckily DBF got out of his conference a little bit early so we headed up to Anaheim to check into our hotel and then get to Burbank.

One last San Diego pic:

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After checking into the hotel, we hopped in the car and headed to Burbank. We got in line and I snapped this picture:
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The wait was long but we were in the shade so it wasn't that bad. After the people with guaranteed tickets were let in, they started bringing our line in. DBF had to empty his pockets when we went through the security entrance and I was getting stressed because I knew that there was another couple right behind us and I didn't want them to go in before us. Thankfully we got in ahead of them.

We walked around back stage and the staffer passed us off to the usher and said "Finish off the front". What!?!?!? I turned to DBF and mouthed "the front?" Yup, that's right! We were brought up to the last two seats in the front row. They are the seats that are right in front of the spot that Leno does his monologue. We got to shake his hand and be on TV! Woohoo!:cool1: :cool1:

Miley and Billy Rae Cyrus were the guests and musical guests along with Brooke Shields. Brooke is as gorgeous in person as she is on film.

After the taping we left and I made all of my phone calls to let people know that they needed to watch the show that night. Mom made sure that she taped it for me too.

After the show, we knew it wasn't a good time to head back to Anaheim, so we headed toward Hollywood and Highland. We got to see the Walk of Fame and the Hollywood sign.

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They were still giving out tickets to Jimmy Kimmell Live which was being taped right across from the Chinese theater.
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We were a little overwhelmed by the area so we decided to head out to the Farmer's Market since it is open until 9ish.
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We had dinner there at a DELICIOUS Brazilian BBQ place, and after walking around for a bit, we decided to drive over to Rodeo Drive. Of course since it was late, everything was closed, but it was still nice to drive down.

After that we headed back to the hotel and managed to catch the opening of Leno before falling asleep.
 
Wow! The front... popcorn::

So cool! Millions paid millions to see Mylie and there you were for free! :lmao:

I'd love to see a taping of something someday. Sounds like you guys had a great time :thumbsup2
 
It was really cool! We got to shake Leno's hand too. You can't talk to the guest before or after the show though. We told DBF's brother (11) that we got to meet her and tell her how big a fan he is.

He'll probably have the same conference in San Diego again, so I'll probably request tickets again.
 
It was really cool! We got to shake Leno's hand too. You can't talk to the guest before or after the show though. We told DBF's brother (11) that we got to meet her and tell her how big a fan he is.

He'll probably have the same conference in San Diego again, so I'll probably request tickets again.

Nice!
 







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