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Zoe, Kylie, Scott and I headed to San Diego Zoo and enjoyed a pretty good day out. After taking our time at first strolling along, we rushed to see everything we wanted, deciding to get on a tour bus around the zoo to help us decide what we wanted to come back and see.
The sea lion show we saw was pretty awesome, seeing the aforementioned animal entertaining the crowd with ease. Damn they are good sliders!
Seeing the polar bears, elephants and giraffes was pretty cool, and I end up buying a souvenir for Lewis in the gift shop. In the end I have to guess what size to get for him.
When we met up with the others, Todd dropped us off in downtown San Diego for us to walk around and find our way to the bar where scenes from Top Gun were filmed. When we got there, I was surprised to see it was just a dive bar, but all the walls were plastered with memorabilia from the film. They even have the piano featured although it is in another part of the bar from the film. The beer was cheap though, and the regulars on
the stools were real friendly.
Like most other places we had been to, there was a small shop section, where you can get vests or tees about the bar’s involvement with the film. We were even given a business card for the bar, which says on the back “Gone to pee! Don’t fuck with my drink!”
We all met up again and headed for dinner, but have to split the group for 2 tables away from each other. My table had Zoe, Kylie, Scott, Tanya, and Sumi on it. Mark was meeting up with another ex from his time living in San Diego.
After dinner, we head to Yard House, the World’s Largest Collections of Draft Beers, and I unwinded by having a couple of beers with Becca and Scott. Scott and I tried Todd’s recommendation of a Spatan Optimator, a German beer, that doesn’t come in a pint form, but in a goblet, which is a little smaller. Either way, has soon as it was placed on the bar, I downed mine, and placed the empty goblet back on the bar. Scott was just impressed at what I had done, but decided to take his time with
his. I would thoroughly recommend this place to anyone, and especially the Spatan Optimator. It had a great taste to it!
I then headed back to the seats where the group was, and joined Becca in having another beer, deciding to have a good time tonight.
But sadly that was all for my drinking, as we soon left to head back to the campsite. When I got there, I discovered that my sleeping bag was a little wet for some reason, so asked if I can use the spare sleeping bag and sleep in the van that night.
Before then, Zoe, Becca and I had another chat, where Becca said she will replace Zoe in insulting me daily on the second part of the trip. At this point I was a little sad that Zoe was not going to be around after tomorrow to insult me.
The van was just about ok, although I could not lie completely flat without my feet pushing against the door. And the sound of the fruit and nuts from the tree falling on the roof almost proved to be a problem, but once I get to sleep, I am impossible to wake up
easily.
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