1+2=ALL/What does a Retired Chief Do on the Weekend

Christmas was a blast. We spent the weekend in San Diego. If you've ever been to San Diego then you know when you go you can never ask for better weather. While we were there we stayed at our daughters apartment. It was a little cramped but it was nice to be there with her and the grandkids, yes I'm a grandpa.

Flew to San Diego from Reno to San Diego on Wednesday after work. No problems what so ever. Damn near a first. Thursday we finished up a little bit of Christmas shopping and called it quits. Christmas Eve we all just hung out at the daughters and ordered Pizza.

Christmas morning was absolutely great having both the kids and grandkids there. The grand daughter is to young to really get it but everyone else did! Everyone got what they wanted and more! It was fun watching the kids open their presents. That really is fun.

One funny thing is that I had told Number One about the me buying the XBox 360 for the boys a couple of weekds ago and she didn't seem that excited about it. What I didn't know at the time was that they had just bought my Christmas present. A Playstation 3. So like the title says 1+2=All. We now have all of the big gaming consoles in our house. She's not to thrilled about that, but I think she'll get over it. The boys and I however are pretty excited!

What does a retired Chief do on the weekend? Why he pays good money to go on a retired aircraft carrier. On Saturday I took my two boys and the grandson to the USS Midway museum. Very cool and we had a great time. The two younger ones liked seeing everything, but I think Mini-Me really got into it. We managed to see most of the ship, but sometime soon I'd like to go back and take a little more time. There are things I didn't get to see and some parts of the Midway that I have never seen on any of the ships that I was on. I highly recomend it. My favorite part? Surprisingly it was seeing the "racks" or the beds. Just sort of reminded me of actually being there again.

This weekend I was planning on going home, but as I look outside it is snowing like crazy and has been all night. Not good. Hopefully it clears up soon or I'll be stuck here all weekend.