Hail to The Queen

The Great Plotnik and The Great Ducknik sat on the sea wall at the Marina for an hour and a half, with a couple thousand other people, but the sun shone for the most part, and it was well worth it when The Queen Mary 2 steamed through the channel. Even more surprising than the sight of this magnificent ship was the noise -- choppers in the sky and power boats and ferries and the Jeremiah O'Brien on the sea and people shouting and whistling and waving flags on land.

This ship is sooo--o-o huge. It really is worth heading down towards the docks today (it's berthed at Pier 27) to take a look -- late tonight she takes off for a Trans-Pacific passage to Australia. What a great day. Wasn't there a football game or something?