Warming up for the party. Tommy is drinking an American substitute for beer.
San Diego has an impressive collection of historical ships and replicas. This is the Surprise, which starred in the movie Master and Commander. Before the movie was shot, and still among many sailors, the ship was known as the Rose.
Air craft carrier. Big.
Interior from another of the ships, a Russian attack submarine. Torpedo to the right. Be glad you were never hit by that one, miss air craft carrier!
Star of India, fully rigged iron wind jammer built in 1863. Sparred length 278 feet/84.8 meters. Still sailing, occasionally.
Christmas luncheon at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in San Diego.
Christmasy table decoration
Victor is the blurred dude with the wine glass.
Lucia parade, a festival celebrating the Catholic saint Lucy. It has roots in pagan celebrations of the return of light at the darkest day of the year and it has survived more than 400 years of Protestantism and almost a millennium of Christianity.
In Japan this would be a donburi, rice in a bowl with something on top. In San Diego I think it was called a Southern chicken rice bowl.
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