Saw It, Did It

So. on the agenda today was playing tourist in San Diego. The first stop was a yarn store, which yielded more Noro Taiyo, the yarn I am seriously addicted to. Now onto the good stuff.

My partner-in-crime and I went down to Ocean Beach. First stop: bizarre $2 store with clothes and DVDs and CDs. I could not help wondering where this stuff came from. Then we went to this strange, cool sort of gallery/shop full of Japanese art and antiques...vases and kimonos and netsuke and you-name-it. Got to overhear a conversation in which the very patient counter dude tried repeatedly to explain to the two guys who brought a piece of pottery in that it was Chinese, not Japanese, and he as not an expert on Chinese anything, and could not help them. Again and again. They finally got the hint and left. Poor guy. Next stop was Taco Stand and the guy we have dubbed "Butt-Crack-Guy-With-Bleeding-Tattoo-Guy". He wa on a pause from getting a tattoo on his ribcage worked on and came out for a smoke. His pants were so low he was expoing a good 4" of buttcrack with blood trickling down his side. And he got into an agrument with a guy who ultimately walked away and flipped him off (and I'm pretty sure Angry Dude was someone I knew waaaaay back when).

Next stop was Sunset Cliffs, one of my favorite places in the world. There are these amazing sandstone cliffs that people carve in, names and pictures and whatever else, and when the water comes in over them, it forms natural tidepools. We took a ton of pictures and got lucky because there were a gazillion crabs out, all sizes and colors, including one nomming on the leg of a dead one. Yes, an itty bitty crab eating fresh crab legs.

After we got ice cream and headed out we went to play tourist in the tourist mecca of Old Town San Diego. We walked around, visited a bunch of little touristy shops, and visited a nifty little shop with UV color change stuff, including nail polish that changes from silver glitter to ruby red glitter in sunlight. Dinner was a pile of amazing tacos and chips on homemade tortillas. Two hours later, w headed home. I am a tired camper.

Other highlights:
Dia de los Muertos dolls in the following themes:
Michael Jackson
Drag Queens
Superman

and more that I am much to tired to remember now....