Day 26: Another Update

Thursday-Do I even mention that I went to work? I think by now we all can just assume that Mon-Fri. I go to my internship unless mentioned otherwise….yes that sounds good. Now we have that order of business down, let’s get onto more exciting things. Got to leave work an hour early to go a little afternoon trip to Coronado. Coronado is where a lot of people from the military lived back in the day(and probably still do) and they do a lot of stuff with aviation and such. Now it’s just a great island to visit in San Diego and super easy to get to. Everyone at the house went with for the trip(including Lulu, my aunt’s dog) and we walked the boardwalk along the beach at Hotel Coronado (a very famous, old hotel). It was great because everything was so handicap accessible, it made walking with Colleen very easy. I think she enjoyed getting out of the house a lot. We also got ice cream at the hotel from a place called Mootime Creamery. It was delicious but very expensive (one scoop was $5!). Then Paula took me out to dinner afterwards cause she felt like it. We went to the Kensington neighbor, which is just east of the neighborhood I’m living in. We ate the Kensington Grill and it was very yummy (I had fish tacos!). Also spotted a cute local coffee shop called Twiggs which I eyeing to try out this week.

The boardwalk on Coronado...and look at that ship in the background!

Friday-This day was pretty uneventful but relaxing. After work, we finished the mini-series we had started called The Aristocrats by the BBC. It was a good mini-series, something I probably wouldn’t have watched if my aunt hadn’t ordered it on Netflix.

Saturday-Dropped my aunt off at the airport-she’s gone for the week for a meeting in Ireland. For the afternoon I did a lot of studying/research for my Genesis class, I’m kind of off-schedule of when I wanted to be done with it, but still keeping up at a good pace. At night I went to the Del Mar county fair. I had been told all week that it was the best fair ever which I had my doubts about(MN state fair is pretty hard to beat), but it was still lots of fun and a very good fair. The cool thing is that the fair was about ½ mile away from the ocean. I went with 2 of my aunt’s friends, Cheri and Michelle cause they invited me to go with. They were so much fun! First thing we did was go on rides and they were really nice and bought my ride tickets. I hadn’t been on fair rides in a long time and though it was fun, I remember why I don’t go on fair rides-most of them make me so sick, whether or not I have anything in my stomach. It’s weird because at amusement parks, I’m fine but fair rides, ooofff. Still they were fun. We went on a power tower ride(long drop, free-fall ride), this fast spinny ride, The Crazy Mouse(a rollercoaster) and this hang-glider ride(best one by far, felt like I was flying). After rides, we went to see the pig races. I had never done this before but Michelle was dead set on going. Though the piglets were cute, I felt really bad for them, with the crowd all yelling, microphones going off ect. Plus they had a porkchop stand right next to the pig racing track which just seemed so wrong. After that we looked through the different exhibits things, like the barns and home show. We also got food then-I got a frozen-yogurt cone dipped in chocolate and peanuts(so like a drumstick but with frozen yogurt instead, it was super delish…I love frozen yogurt!) and Michelle let me try her Australian battered potatoes. Those were very good too, but I only had two pieces and they were so greasy it made my stomach feel not so great. This is another thing I always forget at fairs, my stomach doesn’t tolerate greasy food very well unless there’s something else in there to absorb the grease. Well at fairs, I always never eat much and then try something greasy(cause it’s the fair!) and then I end up feeling sick. So when I go to the MN state fair this year, I will try my best to remember so my stomach doesn’t end up feeling sick. But still, the fair was so much fun and I’m so glad I went-it was a really great way to spend Saturday night despite feeling totally nauseous once or twice (but I suppose that’s just all part of going to the fair right?)

Entrance to the Del Mar County Fair

Video of one of the pig races

A trained swimming pig...most people I've shown this too liked this video a lot, so I'm uploading just because of that....

Sunday-Laurie was awesome and brought donut’s from The Donut Star. I usually don’t like donuts but these were seriously delicious! Went to Church. Then again studied/researched for Genesis for the afternoon. Got really sick of studying and wanted to leave the house but didn’t, instead I went for a run during the hottest part of the day…not the smartest idea but I made it. While on the run, I decided that when I got back I would jump into the pool. Laurie convinced me to do it and so I changed into my swimming suit and went swimming. The water was freezing but it felt great! I’m going to start using that pool more(plus the Jacuzzi and sauna ☺ ). I was also glad to start running again, I had to take a week off cause my tendinitis was giving me issues and my dad told me to rest it for a week. Ate dinner/watched PBS with everyone in the house for a few hours…they had a really good BBC mini-series on. Was going to take my second test(of three) for Genesis but was too tired to do so.

Monday-Woke up and took my test. I was going to wait until after work but realized I wouldn’t be able to focus at all if I waited. Glad I did it, now I just have to do 6 more lessons, write my paper(which is almost at outline stage) and take the last test. I CAN DO THIS! We had a true day of June Gloom-it was cloudy and misty all day. Bleh. Before I left for work, we heard this huge thud and sad day, a turtledove flew into huge glass window in the living room, broke its neck and died. ☹ I’m going to put up some of those bird silhouette things since Gladys told me this happens about 1-2 times a week. When I got back from work, we got skype to work for my aunt’s laptop so Colleen and I were able to talk with her all the way from Ireland. It’s amazing, we’re able to video chat half-way across the world from one another and best of all, it’s free! Then got through 2 more lessons for Genesis, so I have 4 more left. I’m on a mission to finish this class.

So there you go, another update!

~Lauren