We got back from our annual trip to San Diego this morning and all three of us are understandably cranky and exhausted. We drove the entire trip over night, leaving Tuesday night around 11:00pm and leaving to come home last night about the same time. While this made for a easy stress-free trip toddler wise (Alex slept the entire trip both ways), John and I both stayed up all night. John did the bulk of the driving, and I am unable to sleep in cars. The trip home made it even harder for me to sleep as the floor in front of me was occupied by the cooler, requiring me to fold up my legs and ride the entire trip Indian style. Amazingly uncomfortable, I can assure you.
The trip itself was mostly exhausting for me. We stayed at my grandmother's house in Fallbrook which does not have air conditioning. Her house is also filled with shiny breakable knick-knacks that were irresistible to Alex. When I wasn't prying breakables out of my son's hands, I was in San Diego with John at ComicCon trying to navigate a giant stroller through an ocean of geeks. Our time at ComicCon was spent standing in lines, standing in more lines, and, just for fun, we'd stand in a few lines. Geeks love them some lines, let me tell you. In fact, on two separate occasions, I retreated to a far wall of the exhibition hall to take a break and people actually lined up behind me. The first time it happened, within 20 minutes, I had four groups of people standing along the wall with me when someone walked by and asked me what the line was for. "Line? What line? I'm not in line, I'm just standing here." I replied. Everyone groaned and walked away. I thought it was pretty funny until it happened again later in the day.
It wasn't all bad though, I got to meet Chief Tyrol (aka Aaron Douglas) from Battlestar Galactica and had his new action figure autographed. He was really nice and willing to talk to fans. Too bad all I could think to say to him was "Der, I bet it's cool to have your own action figure huh? Snort". Unfortunately, that was the day I'd forgotten to bring my camera, so this is the only proof I have of the encounter:
We also were lucky enough to get into the Heroes panel line just in time to get seats for the event. We showed up at about 9:00, the panel started at 11:00, only to discover that apparently, Heroes is the new Beatles. People had actually camped out the night before in line. It was a good thing we'd left Alex with my family for the day as we spent the entire day glued to our seats in Ballroom 20 of the convention center for not only the Heroes panel (which was great), but the one panel I was excited about, "the women of Battlestar Gallactica".
We spent a couple of hours at the beach in La Jolla and we saw a baseball game... All in all, it was a great trip, but I gotta tell ya, I'm wiped out. I'm going to go take a nap.
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