Sunny San Diego

Last weekend I went down to San Diego to take the Professional Engineer Examination. The test was long (8 hours on Friday, then 5 hours on Saturday), uncomfortable (plastic folding chairs), and overall was an experience that I hope I never have to do again. But once I made it through the test, I got to hang out with my brother Robby who happens to live in San Diego.

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That's Robby at his house, playing guitar.

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And here's Shannon, Robby's girlfriend.
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Robby and Shannon live at the end of a road that ends because that's where the ocean begins. On Sunday we walked down the cliffs near their house to the Ocean Beach Pier (which you can see in the background of most of the pictures from that walk. Robby says that it's the longest pier on the west coast.)

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Me and Robby, trying not to be blinded by the sun.

.Shannon and Robby, walking near the tide pools.
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A tide pool. I think that I was trying to get a picture of a crab that was hiding between the rocks.
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The ocean.

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Me, splashing barefoot in the water. (Yes, I'm wearing only a t-shirt, no sweater. No, I wasn't cold. It was a lovely break from the rain in Portland.)

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On my trip back to Portland I saw the oddest thing in the San Diego Airport.
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An area in the San Diego Airport, filled with rocking chairs.

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(Oh yeah, one last thing: I won't get the results of my test for 13 weeks, so I can relax until then.)