Clamoring

My one blog reader mentioned I haven't blogged in a while...I do have more than one reader (I'm pretty sure) but this particular one gives me instant feedback since I'm married to him. :) So I tartly replied, "Oh? So my audience is clamoring for more cheesey goodness?"  He said it wasn't clamoring  with which I will leave the following:

clam·or (klmr)

n.

1. A loud outcry; a hubbub.

2. A vehement expression of discontent or protest: a clamor in the press for pollution control.

3. A loud sustained noise. See Synonyms at noise.

v. clam·ored, clam·or·ing, clam·ors

v.intr.

1. To make a loud sustained noise or outcry.

2. To make insistent demands or complaints: clamored for tax reforms.

v.tr.

1. To exclaim insistently and noisily: The representatives clamored their disapproval.

2. To influence or force by clamoring: clamored the mayor into resigning.

So I exaggerated a bit...in my mind it was a loud outcry and hubbub. :)

Last Thursday, we headed down to San Diego/Carlsbad because Hector got us tickets to see the Legend of Zelda symphony but we failed to realize that it was during Comic-Con 2012. Hotel prices were very high and traffic in the area was bad but we managed. Got a hotel in Carlsbad, took the trolley to the convention center and had lots of fun watching the activity.

Comic-con was pretty crazy and we were not even attending!! There are lots of things to experience outside of the venue. We came upon the SEGA sign and found Sonic the Hedgehog. Then the kids went inside and got to try out a new Sonic game on the PS3. They were in heaven! It was super dark in there but there was also the original Alien prop on display and it was large.

Onward we go, tagging people as we walk along the Convention Center, around and behind it to get to the marina. Our goal was to tag 100 people and with the Legend of Zelda concert & Comic-con, we achieved that all in about 3hours.



This is where we sat and got a lot of our tags. There is a group of SD 3DS people that gather and get tagged with each other. It's kind of fun as you collect puzzle pieces to make 3D panels, try to collect hats for your Mii and see what countries and states you get. Joshua seems to tag people in Canada even though I sat right next to him, I didn't get those people. We have tags from Japan, Argentina and Anguilla.

Joshua was so funny and didn't want to budge from his seat. He was exclaiming that this was TOO EASY and when I said this was crazy, he replied yeah, CRAZY AWESOME! This was the highlight of the day, getting all those tags at one place. The concert was really great too. We thought since it combined the videogame soundtrack to the symphony, it would be a good introduction for the kids. There was a Zelda costume contest and raffle too. Hector came down on his motorcycle after work to meet with us but had to ride home to work the next day.

The kids and I stayed in Carlsbad and went to Legoland water park on Friday and the Legoland park on Saturday. The weather was really strange, humid and occasional rain so Josh got cold right away at the water park. I thought that July would warm up a bit but we have to try again another time.



A nice little trip with the kids and now they want to go to Comic-con!! :)