We went to Doggy Dash again. This page is from last year, but it was pretty much the same, only the t-shirts are nicer. Sailor was in seventh heaven, with all those dogs to socialize with. He also had a lot of lovely biscuits. I won a Monster.com t-shirt on a wheel of fortune. We walked the 5K in 50 minutes again. En route we saw a black furry dog in real distress, wheezing and unable to get up when her master (uh, "guardian") asked. I looked for a course person with a radio, but the only person we saw was walking along talking talking talking into thin air, no radio at all. I thought he should give the other person a chance, but no other person. Also along the River levee, we saw a green heron. Nifty.

Our mockers fledged out. We kept the cats, furious, in all day to protect them.

Anyway, I was working on a bit of a blister again, but on the whole, I was feeling really chuffed. "I'm in much better shape", I said, and didn't hear the Ominous Knell of Doom at all. So, tonight, when I tried to get up and suddenly couldn't put any weight onto my left ankle, I was surprised. It felt, suddenly, like I'd broken something. The pain was severe. But fleeting... I went to just use my toes and hobble into the other room and suddenly I was back to normal. Pretty scary that.

Back home, we discovered that Gateway had called to thank me for my thank-you note and to ask who it was to. I'd addressed it to Julie, in Customer Service, that should narrow it down!

Back to trip planning. After we check out the Calico site, we'll finally see the dinosaurs and then swing around and drive through Joshua Tree National Park before staying in Thousand Oaks. There's road construction going on there, but delays are supposed to only be 15 minutes or so. As long as the air conditioning holds!

Then we're going over to Sandy Eggo. There's plenty to do there, much more than we have time for! We have the Zoo (open late hours) and the Wild Animal Park, also open late, where the condors have hatched a chick, (only a mother could love), Tijuana, the Mission San Diego de Alcala which is the one Vince made in fourth grade. Then there are the museums in Balboa Park, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, which is reciprocal with ours (unfortunately, the others aren't, nor is the Zoo), the Museum of Man, and just for Mark, the Model Railroad Museum.

We plan to come home through San Luis Obispo past a number more missions. Rich has a high school friend in SLO, as do I.

Sounds like fun! But I repeat, losing Nick was really really careless of me!