A Full Moon and Some Pigs

Shannon, Steve, Joe, and I headed to San Diego on Saturday. We originally had planned on going to Catalina for the day, but ferry tickets are kind of $$$$. So we took the train to the SD nation.


However, we were sad that we would be missing out on the buffalo milk from Catalina. No, not real buffalo milk, but a cocktail that resembles a yummy milkshake loaded with booze. We thought we replicated the Catalina signature drink to perfection until we found black chunks in our drinks. We could not determine if it was from leftover chocolate syrup left in the blender or a possible cockroach, but we still gulped them down. A little protein never hurt anyone.


When we got to the train station we ran into this group of ladies

Yes, these are people from the Red Hat Society. I never really knew what their group does or how it started, I just know that lack fashion sense. I just wikipediaed them and learned "The founder of the society is Fullerton, California artist Sue Ellen Cooper, who in 1998 gave a friend a 55th birthday gift consisting of a red fedora she had bought a year earlier at a thrift store along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem, Warning, whose opening lines read
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn't go and doesn't suit me."

I am pretty sure I will join this cult in another 20 1/2 years.


As we boarded the train, the conductor announced, "if you are offended by nudity, please do not look out the left side of the train as we pass through Laguna Niguel". That's right ladies and gents, it was Moon the Amtrak day. You can read more about it at moonamtrak.org.

Well, the first people to move to the left side of train were:

They Red Hats quickly moved to the left side of the train with the biggest zoom camera I have ever seen! It was quite comical!

If you are offended by blurry nudity, please do not look at this picture:

The train was going too fast to really get a nice picture of the full moon. There was literally a mile of bare buns though. Pretty funny.

When we got to San Diego, we enjoyed refreshments at many of the establishments in the Gas Lamp Quarter. We also brought, Pig Mania, and made our own rules to it.

Steve won over and over.

We all had fun though! I can't wait to go back soon!