That makes me sad
Ok, well there’s nothing sad about visiting family in San Diego. But there is something really funny about the way Nico (and the rest of us thereafter) says ‘that makes me sad’ when something is moderately disappointing.
Allow me to introduce you to a traditional Cuccarese vacation. We’ll all get together somewhere and after a ceremonial round of saying “how you doin’?” to each other, we find some chairs, drag them out to the driveway and sit. Now, each day will have some main thing to do, but it’s all bookended by driveway time. Naysayers may say it’s ludicrous to fly out to California without spending all day at Disney Land/Lego Land/Downtown SD/Arnold’s hosue/the beach/Tijuana/jail/etc. but to them I say *shrug*. We don’t sit around the entire time. I did get to see an angels game, my friend downtown, the beach and some neat places to eat, but the point isn’t to fill the day with things to do. If you do that your family is only ‘around’ you for the experience. You need a driveway. In my humble opinion.
So of course I took the camera around and snapped photos the whole time, trying (but failing) to resist the temptation to take the generic sunset photo over the water. Here’s a few.
This photo is just to pay homage to the great Steve Zissou. Graig took it.
This is graig. Except this is graig after I printed the photo out and waited 30 years
This is a terrifying lightsaber battle with Nico
My dad smiles all the time, however the event is as hard to catch as bigfoot. Well here you go – proof.
Here’s the sunset photo I hoped not to take
This picture perfectly describes Angelo – he’s very fun
Normally I don’t like straight-on flash. Especially pop-up flash. However I think it worked out well in this case. I was pretty proud of it until I found myself in the background of the photo. Cred goes to Emily.
