{"id":35,"date":"2012-07-18T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-07-18T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:00:18","slug":"and-then-it-was-smashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/18\/and-then-it-was-smashed\/","title":{"rendered":"And then it was smashed!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Bonjour!!\n

I am listening to the hum of the air conditioner\u00a0& Chloe\u2019s snoring as I type my Good Mornings to you all. I can hear her now as she reads that statement \u201cI don\u2019t snore\u201d but yah she does!<\/p>\n

Here we are Day #3 \u2013 it seems that we have packed lots into 2 days already and this day will be th busiest yet \u2013 we are off today\u00a01 at Seaworld\u00a0\u2013 with a return on Friday we will get our money\u2019s worth of the tickets I bought through AMA several months ago!\u00a0 Prior to looking Seaworld up on the web \u2013 I thought it was just an aquarium (www.seaworld.com<\/a>) \u2013 we will see fish, etc. but there are rides, shows, shopping & a whole lotta other stuff to do!\u00a0 It\u2019s over in the Mission Bay area and we are in Point Loma are in case there are map junkies out there wondering layout of the land.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was packed with walking \u2013 in fact I brought my pedometer and with the exception of when we went to the pool & back which was probably another 500 steps we did 4,602 \u2013 OK not the 10,000 they recommend daily but let me tell you my feet felt like it was 46,000!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Our first stop was the USS Midway \u2013 the longest-serving aircraft carrier or fighting ship not sure, in the US fleet \u2013 1945-1992. It is crazy big!!\u00a0 It is 1,001 feet long \u2013 and we walked it all. Took us 5 hours to do the self guided tour which included stopping for lunch and browsing the gift store. The crew population was around 4,500 and it has EVERYTHING!\u00a0 Even a dentist office which we were headed to when I dropped my camera down the steepest set of stairs I\u2019ve ever encountered!! Here I\u2019ll share the last picture\u2026<\/p>\n

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My last thought was\u2026I should put my camera (no strap to wrap around my wrist) in my pock\u2026\u2026(DANG too late). So I\u2019m cameraless until we hit Vegas as I remember a camera store which is right across the Strip from our Hotel.<\/p>\n

Anyways we both found the USS Midway very interesting \u2013 it\u2019s very\u00a0true when they say they are a floating city \u2013 with its own\u00a0ZIPCODE!\u00a0 Across the Bay were two other nuclear carriers (way better on fuel we learned) was the USS Regan and USS Vinson \u2013 interesting tidbit they have a safety barrier around them which when they are towed out to leave the bay opens up and allows them to be moved but does not allow other boats within a certain distance of them because in the 1990\u2019s prior to this barrier another ship ran into one and blew a huge hole in the carrier killing 17 people!\u00a0 Safety is a good thing!!<\/p>\n

After we left the USS Midway we wandered down the boardwalk to Seaport Village\u00a0\u2013 it\u2019s basically a mishmosh of quant little shops into little house like buildings. We were on a mission to find Seal Tours (www.sealtours.com<\/a>) a hydraterra tour of the Bay area.<\/p>\n

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We climbed aboard with about 35 other people and one screaming child I was considering throwing over board. I felt sorry for Granma\u00a0sitting behind me as the parents gave this one to her and kept the quiet one!! This was a 90 minute (60 on water, 30 on land) tour of the Point Loma\/SD Bay area. We learned some interesting tidbits (Tuna industry was huge in the early 1900\u2019s but died out when they put regulations, etc in \u2013 the last cannery closed in 1980\u2019s but still stands empty) \u2013 (the Navy trains dolphins & seals to search out bombs underwater \u2013 they find them and alert the divers who go in and deactivate them \u2013 not sure how long ago but Animal Activists came over and cut the mesh that holds the dolphins in their pools at night \u2013 when the Navy trainers came back the next morning not one dolphin had left\u2026why we asked\u2026.well they had been born there, are well fed, looked after, exercised and loved why leave?)<\/p>\n

As we were about to leave the water (ok for those of you who didn\u2019t look up the website to see this vehicle we were traveling in \u2013 it drivers on roads then drove right into the ocean where it deactivates the wheels and activates a propeller which drove us around in the Ocean \u2013 quite cool. We even were passed by this brute!!<\/p>\n

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Car carrier \u2013 which carries anywhere from 2,000 \u2013 3,000 cars which our guide said it was sitting low in the water so probably had a good load on!<\/p>\n

As we were leaving the water we got a good shot of a purple nettle jelly fish \u2013 about the size of a basket ball but I\u2019m noting the program won\u2019t let me upload anymore pictures so I\u2019ll have to save that one for another day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We grabbed a cab and were back at the Hotel around 7:30pm \u2013 pretty full day for us \u2013 went for a quick dip in the pool, ate and crashed by 10pm\u2026.and now ready to do it all over again!!<\/p>\n

Ciao, S.<\/p>\n

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