A Day in San Jose

Well, I made it. Actually it was not a bad trip. Not long either, certainly nothing compared to my recent flights to Alaska and Great Britain. Even my layover in St. Louis was good, well, as good as layovers can be. Came in gate C23 and out C25 in 45 minutes. Hardly time to even sit down and check the previous day's downloaded e-mails.

At San Jose airport, it is, um, wow. So far I have been impressed with the lack of lines at airports. Sure, Heathrow was a bit of a wait to check in, but that is nothing new there. However, the San Jose Airport is something else. Not that I had to worry about lines getting out, but there were actually human traffic jams. Security lines bunched up, bottle-necked, out the door. What a mess. Tomorrow should be interesting when we come back to fly to Reno...

My flight got me in early. Not all THAT early, but before noon and wow, in all this mess Paul was waiting and found me right at the security gate. Wow. Impressive ;-) So we got to his house OK, got Zamboni to the sitters and I got a chance to relax a bit while he finished up with some work.

Still having some time to do something, but it is raining. Pouring off and on actually, but I want to get some photos for this site. Something more interesting than these berries outside Paul's house... Hm, the Tech Museum. Yea, that's it. No, not a visit to the Museum itself, that would be like, um too normal, no, there was a Christmas Fair there. Or as Paul put it, what looks more like an anti-Christmas fair... It was being torn down you see, and wow, what a mess. Made for some interesting photos though. The courtyard area was nice enough looking planted with candy cane colors of cyclamen, but everywhere else looked like a Christmas disaster area. It had been raining here for days, the displays and Christmas trees they set up were obviously been rain soaked and though everything was in process of being taken down, broken and abandoned bits and pieces were everywhere. Wet, bedraggled stuffed toys, wrapped boxes, even a Barbie that looked reminiscent of something one might catch on the evening news...

On to Animal Ark!