Stryker Endoscopy (the branch we went to visit)
So we decided to rent a car and drive up (or down not really sure where San Jose is) to San Francisco. As we were making our way to Fisherman's Wharf and to see the Golden Gate Bridge, we drove right by a gay rights parade. Man that was interesting! We saw a variety of people, from the guy in the feathered underwear and matching hat, to the leather pants men and then the all classic guys wearing thongs on stilts. One of the guys wearing stilts bent in half so that he could fit into the port-o-john. I'm still trying to figure out how he actually "used the facilities" on his stilts...
if you look closey at the picture below, you can see one of the guys leaning on the port-o-john waiting for his friend inside.
Tina & I in San Francisco, Alcatraz is behind us in the water.
The Golden Gate Bridge
I attempted to take pictures to share with you all, but they didn't turn out very well because I was trying to take them as we drove by the parade. We thought about stopping and going in to get better pictures, but then we decided to go eat crab.
We toured around San Fran (as the locals call it) for the day and saw all the sights and everyone else ate crab (I'm not much of a seafood eater).
Crab Alley in Fishermans Wharf where all the crab is sold
We also got to see the baby sea lions that come to the bay to hang out for the winter, they were so cute and there were a lot of them.
The business part was good and at night we ate & drank a lot! The trip home, however was a totally different story. We got stuck in Minneapolis on our plane bound for Detroit for 3 hours, sitting on the runway. We probably would still be sitting there today, except the lady sitting next to me had a panic attack about being closed in the plane for that long and they had to go back to the gate to let her off (which by the time we got back to the gate, she was fine and didn't want to get off the plane!). Then they cancelled all the other flights to Detroit, so we decided ours would probably get cancelled as well and did our best to get a different flight home. Lucky for us, some people flying into Minneapolis were also delayed and missed their connecting flight from Minneapolis to Kzoo (so we took their seats!). If we wouldn't have gotten on this plane, we would still be in Minneapolis today! Our original flight was supposed to leave at 1pm and the flight we actually took left at 9:45pm.
On the second flight, we were pulling away from the gate and heading for take off, when our second Medical Emergency of the day decided he was going to pass out in his seat. So needless to say, we had to wait for him to wake up and then give him the option of returning to the gate to get off the plane... by that point everyone on my plane was telling him to suck it up and that he could go to the hospital in Kzoo when we go there! We were in no mood for him to get off that plane and delay us more. I couldn't believe it, my whole life I've flown with no Medical Emergencies and then two in the same day on two different flights! It was crazy. But we finally made it home at midnight. It is good to be home!
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I owe you a ping pong ball. Sorry.
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