When we woke up on, looking from our room across from the harbour, there were two cruiser ships in as well as another navy vessel (it's fleet week this month - yeah, go figure we didnt understand either but this means there have been quite a lot of sailors in San Diego all week). So the day starts off well enough, we decide to walk to Starbies as the deli below our hotel was full of people off the cruise liners - all so far so good - but on the way to Starbies Alan cough's and pulls a muscle in his back!! So he hobbled up to Horton Plaza, to the drug store then we had to decide what to do. The plan had been to go to Mission Valley to get some new glasses for Alan but were not that sure he'd make it. We did, and he stumbled round the place looking like a cripple. Had lunch in CPK and then back to the hotel. Against his better judgement and drugged up, we then had a look round the famous Gaslamp district of SD - its a bit seedy but feels very old and has more than a snippin of San Francisco to the feel of the place.
We then went to see the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier which now retired has been donated to the museums in San Diego and has a great collection of planes and helicopters as well as all areas of the ship being accessible - I've never been on an aircraft carrier before, it was an amazing experience as well as a great vantage point for pictures of the bay.