Craig's Turn

Today's post was written by Craig.

Summer activity is in full swing! Last Thursday we had over 400 people take Battalion tours during our six hour shift. Thus far many of the visitors have been from Arizona to find relief from the heat  As the summer season wears on we will have folks from all over touring our Historic Site. I have a fun time teasing visitors from Utah, that they are our very first visitors ever from Utah. Some actually believe me!

We saw this cool ship by Little Italy with 19 on it for Tony Gwynn

On Friday we made our way to the Contemporary Museum of Art in downtown San Diego. Contemporary art sometimes can be cool and sometimes just plain weird. Afterwards we visited Little Italy and had some great pasta and gelato. The owner of the gelato shop was sad as Italy had lost their World Cup soccer/football match earlier in the day to Costa Rica.

We discovered a good but inexpensive sushi house in Pacific Beach and the hostess was from Brazil! We find we can hear many different languages when at the mall or other venues, very fun! World Cup football is on every where we go in the San Diego area.

This past week Tony Gwynn the face of the San Diego Padres passed away from cancer. He was a terrific player, hitting .394 one season. I learned this week over a five or six year period, in his career, he averaged missing a pitch he swung at, only three times/week! That is amazing bat control. I recall watching him play basketball while at SD State vs BYU with Danny Ainge. We had come down from LA to see the game thinking BYU would have an easy victory. Gwynn had a great shooting night and almost single handedly pulled off the upset! While he was a super player, I understand he was an even better person. Regardless of stature or position in life, he treated everyone the same. San Diego is mourning the loss of their hero and friend.

Blair and Susan drove down from Los Angeles to take us to lunch.  Lucky us!  Fun to catch up and spend a little time with family.  We went to one of the many good Mexican restaurants in Old Town. Thank you!

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This past week four sisters convinced us to join them at In-n-Out. Crazy Sisters having a good time.

 This week we spotlight Sister Owens from Alaska. When you are around Sister Owens you will always be laughing and smiling! Her laugh, sense of humor and way at looking at situations brings out the fun side of everything! She is a professional massage therapist, and the others sisters like to take advantage of that skill. Sister Owens knows how to have fun and to stay busy. She is a wonderful Battalion sister and a delight for visitors!

Last picture from Little Italy