The past few months have been interesting...to say the least. One event is with my husband I took a short week vacation to San Diego, California. Beautiful place and we both really like California so we will be back for sure.
The first day in San Diego we walked down to the water from our Hotel, The W - Beautiful hotel. And then we walked all the way down to the giant air cargo ship, and went for the tour. Amazing ship. It's interesting, my great uncle was in the navy and it was very interesting to see the inside and where the men who worked on the ship sleep and eat, it is incredibly cramped quarters. No irrational claustrophobia allowed. A person could go pretty bonkers after a tour on a ship like that if you didn't have the mental fortitude. It was a fascinating self guided tour.
I have always had a fear of heights growing up, and the harrowing drive up and back down the Volcano in Hawaii a few years ago didn't help. One of my treats in California was to go to a few quilt stores, apparently there are about a 100 within as many square miles! Or so it seems to me considering there are only 5 in the entire city I live in. Well, I digress, the point of this is that we stopped in at the first quilt shop, which was aboslutely wonderful and I made a nice purchase of some stunning solids. The ladies in the quilt shop gave me a copy of the shop hop booklet for the upcoming event and suggested we go to the shop in the next town. Off we went, but soon I was climbing over my husband to get away from the cliff that suddenly appeared on my side of the car. He had to pull the car over into a little rest stop area in order to peel me off his head, and take a break. Such an irrational and uncontrollable fear if anyone else suffers from this! It is not fun and deep breathing for me makes me hyperventilate even more. I was lucky, I climbed into the backseat behind my husband and as we were leaving the turn off a larger truck had slowed down and pulled over to let faster vehicles pass. We pulled out behind the truck, and the rest of the route was actually very tame. Crisis averted.
