Almost every year in January Mark attends a concrete convention in Vegas where he can take classes and maintain his Professional Engineering certification. I love it, because usually they will stop in for a visit either before or after the convention. They arrived a week ago last Thursday and stayed until Sunday. It was good to see them. Usually when they come, we try and do something fun but since Dixie had her knee’s replaced a few months back and then promptly fell and broke her femur she wasn’t up to a lot of walking.
Thursday night we just sat and visited and then we started doing some family history. We aren’t ignoring each other on our phones, we are comparing our DNA to see how much we got from who. It is surprising to see how we pulled quite differently from mom and dad.
Friday Lisa had to work (work really gets in the way) so after a relaxing morning we went for a walk on the beach. Our beaches are beautiful and sandy in the summer, but winter storms can take away the sand and leave them rather rocky. It was still beautiful though.
Saturday, we went for a harbor cruise. It was very informative but unfortunately it started raining rather hard towards the last part of the cruise. We went on the spirit of San Diego.
We went under the Coronado bridge.
We saw lots of military ships. They were all protected by a floating barrier. In this picture they are removing the barrier so that the ship can get out.
Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and told us all about each ship, but I don’t remember any of it.
I found this fascinating. It is a dry dock and as best as I can tell, the entire structure is lowered in the water, the ship is sailed into it and then the structure is raised again. You can see that the ship inside of it is undergoing maintenance.
Saturday afternoon Dixie and Mark came with Lisa and I to our Leadership meeting because it was Stake Conference weekend. In the evening, we put together a puzzle of the Hotel Del that Sarah gave us for Christmas. I’m not much into puzzles but it was fun to sit around the table together and visit.
Sunday morning, we headed to conference, and they headed to Las Vegas. They had to pick Tyler up at the airport, so they had a deadline they had to meet. It was great to see my sister.
We went under the Coronado bridge.
I found this fascinating. It is a dry dock and as best as I can tell, the entire structure is lowered in the water, the ship is sailed into it and then the structure is raised again. You can see that the ship inside of it is undergoing maintenance.
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Hippos are the closest living relatives to whales
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