Travelogue: Day1
In my last post I had mentioned 200+ pictures of the trip and hinted at 250+. How wrong I was! I had completely underestimated the trigger fingers and the fact that I had set the camera to click at second highest resolution and had purchased another memory card for this trip.
The total number of snaps is more than 500.
Lets talk about Day 1. Wednesday, the 23rd of November.
Ideally, we should have packed our bags on the weekend. We did that on Tuesday night (insert BITS flashbacks here). Ideally I should have finished recording songs for the trip latest by Monday. I took care of the last album on Tuesday night. What's the big deal? We were supposed to leave the next day, right? A small detail: Our flight was at 6:30 am on Wednesday from Lexington (1.25 hrs away from our place, don't blame me, blame priceline). We finished packing around 11:30 pm and then I started going through the camera manual and packed the camera and the chargers and the tripod that I would carry with me like a blackCat carries his semi-automatic. (Well Friends and Family ended up holding it for a big chunk of time too. Thanks everyone).
So by the time I could sleep it was midnight and we had to leave by 4:00 am, so I did the obvious thing.
I played xbox (halo2) for the next 1.5 hrs. Haven't been playing lately so it felt great.
We managed to leave by 4:00 am and reached Lexington around 5:20 or so. We parked in the long term parking lot and in that dazed state, I left the map-light of the car on. When we were waiting for the AAA guy to show up after our return to jumpstart the car, mom mentioned that she had told me about the light but in that sleep deprived state I had told her that it will switch off automatically in a minute or so. Our RAV4 lights do not work that way. I really needed some sleep.
Our flight was via Chicago and this means only one thing. Flight delays! ...and gate changes. We met my sister's brother-in-law, Mithilesh, and his wife at the airport. They also spent the thanksgiving weekend at Vegas. We were supposed to reach Vegas at 11:00 am local time but we reached at 12:40 or so. We ignored our request for a full sized car, took a convertible, tried to fit in our luggage and ourselves, returned it and took the full sized car.
We drove through the strip and we were off to San Diego. We hit a high traffic patch for about 20 miles near SanDiego but otherwise the drive was smooth... and fast. We checked in our hotel around 8:30 or so, postponed all plans of going to the heated pool and slept like a log.
The fun would begin tomorrow.
I don't have any pictures of day 1 right now, so here are a couple of misc ones.
This is where we stayed in San Diego. It is technically a "Resort" but they have stretched the definition. I am not complaining as we could not spend any time at the hotel anyway.
Beach ke beech mein shooting each other.
The total number of snaps is more than 500.
Lets talk about Day 1. Wednesday, the 23rd of November.
Ideally, we should have packed our bags on the weekend. We did that on Tuesday night (insert BITS flashbacks here). Ideally I should have finished recording songs for the trip latest by Monday. I took care of the last album on Tuesday night. What's the big deal? We were supposed to leave the next day, right? A small detail: Our flight was at 6:30 am on Wednesday from Lexington (1.25 hrs away from our place, don't blame me, blame priceline). We finished packing around 11:30 pm and then I started going through the camera manual and packed the camera and the chargers and the tripod that I would carry with me like a blackCat carries his semi-automatic. (Well Friends and Family ended up holding it for a big chunk of time too. Thanks everyone).
So by the time I could sleep it was midnight and we had to leave by 4:00 am, so I did the obvious thing.
I played xbox (halo2) for the next 1.5 hrs. Haven't been playing lately so it felt great.
We managed to leave by 4:00 am and reached Lexington around 5:20 or so. We parked in the long term parking lot and in that dazed state, I left the map-light of the car on. When we were waiting for the AAA guy to show up after our return to jumpstart the car, mom mentioned that she had told me about the light but in that sleep deprived state I had told her that it will switch off automatically in a minute or so. Our RAV4 lights do not work that way. I really needed some sleep.
Our flight was via Chicago and this means only one thing. Flight delays! ...and gate changes. We met my sister's brother-in-law, Mithilesh, and his wife at the airport. They also spent the thanksgiving weekend at Vegas. We were supposed to reach Vegas at 11:00 am local time but we reached at 12:40 or so. We ignored our request for a full sized car, took a convertible, tried to fit in our luggage and ourselves, returned it and took the full sized car.
We drove through the strip and we were off to San Diego. We hit a high traffic patch for about 20 miles near SanDiego but otherwise the drive was smooth... and fast. We checked in our hotel around 8:30 or so, postponed all plans of going to the heated pool and slept like a log.
The fun would begin tomorrow.
I don't have any pictures of day 1 right now, so here are a couple of misc ones.
This is where we stayed in San Diego. It is technically a "Resort" but they have stretched the definition. I am not complaining as we could not spend any time at the hotel anyway. 
Beach ke beech mein shooting each other.
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