San Diego

Jennifer and I took a trip in October for our anniversary and my birthday.  We went to San Diego for a long weekend.  Nana and Pappy came in and stayed with the kids.  Here is a trip recap

Thursday – we flew out Thursday afternoon. It was the first time it had rained in about 3 months and the front was blowing through right when we were supposed to take off.  We sat on the runway for about 2 hours before we finally took off for our 3 hour flight.  Ugh!  We made it to San Diego and took an Uber to our hotel at about 9.  I called in some food and walked a couple of blocks to pick it up and bring it back to the room.  Then we went to bed.

Friday – After breakfast, we got some coffee and walked down to the harbor.  Our hotel was in downtown between the Gaslamp District and Little Italy.

Next we went to the Zoo. We wanted to see the animals we didn’t have in Fort Worth.  We went in right when they opened and went straight to the Pandas.  They were pretty neat

Next we hit the polar bears

We eventually made our way around and saw the rest of the exhibits.  It was a very nice zoo. I thought it was harder to navigate than Fort Worth if you are not familiar with it, but the exhibits were great.

After the zoo we walked through Balboa park and ate lunch at the Prado café.  It was good.

After lunch, we went back to the hotel and took a nap.  That evening we went down to the Gaslamp District and had drinks and dinner at Searsucker.  It was goooood.

After dinner, we thought about going to a bar.  We saw this one which was one of Anne’s favorite movies but decided to see a movie instead.

After the movie, we went back to Extraordinary Desserts and got a sweet treat before calling it a night.

Saturday – First we had a good breakfast.

We made reservations to go sea kayaking in La Jolla.  It is a 2 mile loop that goes through the sea caves.  It started out great but they stop every so often to give you a break and then they talk about the habitat, etc.  During the break, you just bob up and down.  That got me feeling a little queasy. When we got near the sea caves, the surf was too strong and their were waves crashing against the rocks.  They said we couldn’t get very close with the kayaks because of the waves.  I decided I had enough and turned back.  We made it about three-quarters of the way back before I lost my breakfast.  Not too long after that, the waves tossed us out of the kayak and we waded the rest of the way to shore.  It was awesome.

We walked back to the surf shop and changed clothes.  Then I got something to drink and sat in the shade for a little while until I started feeling better.

Then we walked a couple of miles along the coast towards the La Jolla Cove proper where the sea lions hang out.  The views were spectacular.  You can see the groups of kayaks in the background.

At one spot, you could hike down into one of the sea caves

We learned during the kayak tour that Dr. Seuss was from La Jolla and they showed us what they claimed was his house.  A lot of the trees and plants were a lot different than what we have in Texas and actually looked like the crazy trees in Dr. Seuss books.

Eventually we made it to the sea lions.

Then we had a late lunch, did some shopping, and headed back to San Diego to check in to Hotel del Coronado for our last night.  We had a nice room with a view of the coast.

We cleaned up and went down to the bar to watch the Aggie game which was another let down.

The hotel had some really neat historic features like this old elevator that was operated by an attendant.

The next morning we took a walk on the beach.  This was our rest/travel day.

I read my book on the beach while Jennifer had a facial.  Then we checked out of our room and laid by the pool the rest of the day until it was time to go to the airport in the afternoon.  We got back home really late.

San Diego was a great place to visit.  The weather was perfect, there was plenty to do. We think we want to take the kids back sometime and do the zoo, Sea World and the beach.