“So how far are you from work?” asks another nurse.
“How close is Sea World?” asks a friend.
The answer would be “fifteen minutes” to both of them, and most any other location give or take a few. We are located in a central part of
Today we visited Balboa, first the dog park which is a short bike ride away. Mary has plans to run Princess there when I am at work. The late morning we made our first visit to the Zoo.
I had purchased season membership passes online at home earlier that morning and printed out a copy while we wait for the cards in the mail. On the way out the door I also picked up a copy of our lease thinking I may need it to prove residency.
After parking, I asked Mary where the printed pass is, and realized I left it at home though still had the lease. Like a lease was gonna get us in the zoo. My brain raced with questions of where I might have placed it in the car, why didn’t I remember it, and “ain’t that just like a Cox for ya” thoughts.
The print out was from an emailed receipt since it was purchased online, so I pulled out my fancy “smart phone” and guess what? There was my email copy on the phone.
The two women working the ticket booth seemed amazed at the novelty of my phone as proof of purchace, making me think I may have been the first to have used a paperless entry into the zoo. Anyway, it worked!
So far we have located and visited two Wal-Marts and one Sams Club. The Wal-Mart up North was nice but a little too white, while the one further south definitely was diverse in culture. There is nothing like a Wal-Mart to bring together different ethnics, races, and groups of people while everyone still feeling safe. That Sam was a smart fellow.
My GPS sent us on a couple of pointless searches for a Best Buy and a downtown Wal-Mart, both at least made for interesting discoveries, especially driving downtown where we located a cool tourist area filled with restaurants and bars.
The previous day we had lunch at The Big Kitchen, a diner of national fame featured in Bon Appetit and The Food Network, and ranked as the Nations’ best breakfast. Whoopi Goldberg once worked there, and to think it is just a block down the road from us!
Our home is small, only six hundred square feet, and I have had many homes with closets bigger than this bathroom, but the place is well furnished and makes best use of the space. The courtyard is amazing and our hope is to enjoy the warm summer evenings there.
If we spend excess time in our small living area, then we will have failed to truly enjoy what
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