Greetings from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, USA!
Photo was taken on Sunday, September 16, 2007.
This is my 10th photo of the week and I see a trend. Half (5) of my chosen pictures were taken on a Sunday, 2 on Monday, another 2 on Friday and 1 on Saturday. Nothing is from the middle of the week – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Despite my free time most of my more noteworthy activities are happening near or on the weekends. This week is no exception.
This weekend was the Taste of Newport, a three-day food & music festival, and this year was a milestone as I volunteered for the 10th consecutive time. Okay, my motives are not completely altruistic. I volunteer at the alcohol booths – selling, serving and, um, sampling.
There is more. Socializing with friends, drinking, people-watching, drinking, eating, drinking. Did I mention drink… um, music? This year the headlining performers were Huey Lewis & The News on Friday, Devo on Saturday, and Kevin Costner on Sunday. No, not a typo. Yes, Kevin Costner the actor.
The original plan was going to the Taste on Friday for Huey Lewis and Saturday for volunteering. I have gotten to know the event organizers very well over the years and found out that they were shorthanded on volunteers Friday and Sunday, so I offered to help out on those days too.
I caught most of the Huey Lewis performance, which was good, I completely missed the Devo show as I was working a drink booth far from the stage at the time and I left before Costner sang but heard later that he was decent. I already had a prior commitment elsewhere at the same time as his show.
A friend invited me to a Sunday evening mixer at the Aquarium of the Pacific that included access to all the exhibits. The place has otters, octopi, starfish, jellyfish, lobsters, sea horses, and much, much more. I had just been here a year and a half ago but this return visit was just as great. The aquarium has touching pools filled with sharks, stingrays and horseshoe crabs. I reached in, picked up a crab and discovered that it was “stuck” to another one. They were mating and did not stop despite my intrusion. Horseshoe crabs have existed for millions of years. I witnessed one of the reasons why.
Once again so many pictures of so many creatures and I must limit myself to one. I should start a website so I can post all the other photos. Which do I choose? The ice sculpture. It was next to the bar. Do you see another trend?
Angelo
Photo was taken on Sunday, September 16, 2007.
This is my 10th photo of the week and I see a trend. Half (5) of my chosen pictures were taken on a Sunday, 2 on Monday, another 2 on Friday and 1 on Saturday. Nothing is from the middle of the week – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Despite my free time most of my more noteworthy activities are happening near or on the weekends. This week is no exception.
This weekend was the Taste of Newport, a three-day food & music festival, and this year was a milestone as I volunteered for the 10th consecutive time. Okay, my motives are not completely altruistic. I volunteer at the alcohol booths – selling, serving and, um, sampling.
There is more. Socializing with friends, drinking, people-watching, drinking, eating, drinking. Did I mention drink… um, music? This year the headlining performers were Huey Lewis & The News on Friday, Devo on Saturday, and Kevin Costner on Sunday. No, not a typo. Yes, Kevin Costner the actor.
The original plan was going to the Taste on Friday for Huey Lewis and Saturday for volunteering. I have gotten to know the event organizers very well over the years and found out that they were shorthanded on volunteers Friday and Sunday, so I offered to help out on those days too.
I caught most of the Huey Lewis performance, which was good, I completely missed the Devo show as I was working a drink booth far from the stage at the time and I left before Costner sang but heard later that he was decent. I already had a prior commitment elsewhere at the same time as his show.
A friend invited me to a Sunday evening mixer at the Aquarium of the Pacific that included access to all the exhibits. The place has otters, octopi, starfish, jellyfish, lobsters, sea horses, and much, much more. I had just been here a year and a half ago but this return visit was just as great. The aquarium has touching pools filled with sharks, stingrays and horseshoe crabs. I reached in, picked up a crab and discovered that it was “stuck” to another one. They were mating and did not stop despite my intrusion. Horseshoe crabs have existed for millions of years. I witnessed one of the reasons why.
Once again so many pictures of so many creatures and I must limit myself to one. I should start a website so I can post all the other photos. Which do I choose? The ice sculpture. It was next to the bar. Do you see another trend?
Angelo
