San Diego Part 2

My conference was held at the conference center located downtown, and next to the infamous Gaslamp District. It was once called the Stingeree and was home to many bars and girly shows. Not suprisingly considering it's a navy port. Now it's cleaned up for the most part and reminds me a lot of Georgetown.






Here's the main entrance.





The ballpark is literally in the heart of downtown. I didn't catch a game, but I did see the bellman and a local hotel loading up the NY Met's luggage. Alas, no ballplayers in sight!




The trolley, all above ground so I almost got on it. In the end I didn't need to. Oh well.




I had some extra time at the end of one of my conference days, so I killed time by going shoe shopping of course!


An old grand hotel. I love it when old and new architecture coexists.






Malcolm Gladwell was one of our big speakers at the ASTD conference. He was fantastic.





A view out the back of the conference center. Really it's amazing anyone would go inside for the sessions with a view like that.





The conference center is built to look like sails of a ship.




The scene inside one of the houses on our Haunted Ghost Tour. Do you see the orbs at the top of the stairs? No, not the door knob, but the orbs near it. Spooky.



Also on the tour we went to a haunted grave yard, but what struck me more was that in the 90's they found bodies buried outside the current grave yard walls. They marked them with these tiny little markers. Kinda sad.






Proof that ghosts exist! :)





One night my conference rented out seaworld. I headed straight for the penguin exhibit. Apparantly they have 350 of them.





More penguins outside.





The sea lion was adorable. Look at those expressive eyes!







Saying goodbye to the crowd.






This is the Shamu Rocks show where they choreographed a 25 minute show all to rock music. At one time there were five whales performing at the same time.





A whale and it's handler.





Diving!




More diving!





Heather went to San Diego for a conference this past week. She got there a day early to do some touristy things, and also managed to fit a few tourist activities in the evenings after her conference was over. Turns out San Diego is everything it's hyped up to be and would be a lovely place to live. Wonder what the job market is for trainers there...
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