Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

If this man ever wrote a book...........

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[tikay]

Back to Oceanside, what a lovely spot it was, the palm trees, the soft sandy beach, a lovely Condo, and the warm Pacific, with it's gentle waves, & so we spent a goodly while just messing about in the sea.

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This was the moment I had planned, I had made this decision exactly a year ago, & kept it quiet, never mentioned a word to Gill, but I wanted to do it here, that was always the plan, so that's when I said "shall we do it, then?" She looked at me gone out.

And so we did, we got engaged, there & then, right there, in the Pacific Ocean. It's nice when a plan comes together so perfectly.

Anyway, enough of that soppy nonsense, the trip continued, & we had other things to do. Little were we to know that another magic evening awaited.

[Tal]

Congratulations!

[tikay]

Dinner - again, this had been planned many months ago - was at a place called Ruby's Diner, on the very end of Oceanside Pier.

The Pier is a Municipal Fishing Pier.

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Ruby's Diner is a chain of 50's style Diners, where the waitresses dress up & act in 50's style. It was perfect, exactly what we had hoped.

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I celebrated by having fish & chips.

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And, as it was a 50's Diner, banana split for afters.


 

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Gill managed a miniature fruit sundae.


 

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We thought that may be more than enough excitement for one day, but we were wrong......

[BigAdz]

Nice one Tony.

Best of luck to you both.

[jakally]

Has all the trains stuff finished? Can I start reading again?

Congratulations by the way. You are a very lucky man.
Very best of luck to Gill.

[tikay]

As we wandered back along the pier, we saw this little fella.

No idea what it is, but I'm guessing an egret? Anyone know?

He's a beauty, eh? Happy to pose, too.

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[Tal]

If that's how the night got even better, this is a bigger anticlimax than the end of Goodfellas. 

[Doobs]

Looks very much like an egret to me, so probably a wren.  Congratulations

[tikay]

Just when we thought we could not see any more of nature's wonders, we spotted this fella - a pelican of all things. Sadly, I could not get the right side of the light. He was pretty tame, too.

We soon saw whole flocks of them, skimming low across the water, dozens of them. What a thing to see, wow.

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[tikay]

And THEN all that was topped by, would you believe, a school of dolphins, just doing that porpoising thing off the end of the pier. There were 30 or 40, & they stayed for 15 or 20 minutes.

Magic? Just a bit.

Egret, Pelican, Dolphins, & a banana split, all within an hour. How good is that?


Sadly, the dolphins proved a little difficult to photograph. I have around 50 photos of them, all like this, a tad short of perfect in fairness. Just use your imagination.

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[Big_D]

Congratulations mate, couldn't be happier for you.

[tikay]

More nature photographs to come, we saw so many different animals, birds & the like.

Plenty more Amtrak photos too. Plenty. 

[kukushkin88]

Congratulations Tony! Sounds like you've booked a massive win already, the poker is just a bit of fun by comparison.

[celtic]

Congratulations ❤️