Day 1 - San Diego

It is not every day that you see a time machine.

So we enjoyed our first day in San Diego.
We got to see a lot of cool things and went to some nice parks.
Mark informed us that the parks were boring.
I guess he'll get his fill of not-so-boring parks starting tomorrow.
But today we just wanted to take it easy.

However, the pictures do provide some evidence that everything wasn't too boring. :)

Here's the monument/memorial building for the Mormon Batallion. . . .

These are pictures from Old Town. . . Very fun victorian and antique stuff. . . Grandma would have had a ball!





Then off to Balboa park which was very beautiful. The colors came out real good on the photos because it was overcast for most of the day.

There's more to the story, but we'll have to share the rest of it when we get back. We need to get to bed for the busy park week that starts tomorrow.

Love you all!

Captain EO on You Tube

So Marthe and I got talking about Captain EO the other day and I did a google search to see if anyone has posted the movie somewhere. . . they have.

You can now watch the short movie on you tube.

So if you are dying to delve into a bit of nostalgia. . . .do a search for captain eo on you tube and enjoy. Now all our spouses can get more insight into why we are so wierd.

U2 - New Album Commentary

U2 Has a new album. I downloaded the album the other day. . . I had to convince myself that I didn't need the actual CD. Usually I buy the CD, rip the songs to MP3 and then store the CD in my closet. I'm running out of storage space now. . . so I realize now that downloading songs is probably the way to go. I can always burn the MP3s to a CD if I want. But most of the time I will just listen to them on my iPod.
Anyway, the new U2 album reminds me of Zooropa. When U2 came out with their landmark album Actung Baby and went on tour, they wrote the songs for Zooropa while they were on tour for Actung Baby. The result was an album that sounded a bit like Actung Baby with some other experimental numbers.
I think No Line On The Horizon will be more successful than Zooropa, but it sounds kind of like the previous album and it has several songs that are more experimental.
The main single, "Get On Your Boots" reminds me a mix between "Vertigo" and "Wild Wild West by the Escape Club". It is probably my least favorite song on the CD. There are a few songs that are more raw and were done in a similar vein as songs from the Unforgettable Fire album. . . most likely because of using the same bunch of producers. The result is a pretty unique, yet very U2-sounding album. It will take longer for it to grow on my than How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, but I am liking it.