~ San Diego

One of the nice things about living where we live, we can get in the car and in a couple of hours we can be at the beach, San Diego, Pasadena or even Disney.

This week, KJ is in San Diego for a convention so we decided to drive out there on Friday morning to meet Paul and Jona for the weekend. We left home about 10am and the drive wasn’t really all that bad. We didn’t hit any major traffic jams, no accidents that shut the freeway down for miles and no freeway closings because someone was filming a movie. Yes, we’ve actually experienced that before!

We got to San Diego and had lunch with Ed Morrison (one of the Pipette husbands) and met up with Paul and Jona after lunch. We hit the Gaslamp district where Jona and I did some shopping and Kenny and Paul did some drinking. We caught up with the guys at a place called Dick’s Last Resort. If you’ve never been there, it’s a place where all the waitstaff and bartenders are total smartasses (on purpose). Here’s the website if you’ve never been ~ (http://sandiego.dickslastresort.com). We first went to Dick’s in Chicago with the kids and had a blast; this one was just as much fun. There was a waiter there dressed in a really tight black shirt, really short black shorts, pointy ankle black boots, a mask (like Zorro) and a cape. On the back of his cape, it said, “Gay Zorro” ~ See? I kid you not.

We sat at the bar drinking Bloody Mary’s and laughed as our bartender continually harassed Paul. Eventually, the friends we were having dinner with arrived and we had drinks (and shots) with them. The six of us eventually left the bar but only because we had dinner reservations at 8pm at a restaurant called “Top of The Market”, which was on the harbor

On Saturday we got up and headed to Seaport Village for lunch and shopping. Seaport Village is this great shopping mecca right there at the marina with restaurants scattered about. Shopping tends to make a girl hungry so Jona and I hit Ben & Jerry's while we were there.

Jona and I found these great glasses but the guys weren’t all that crazy about them. I don’t know why, I thought we looked really hot!

That afternoon, we went on a San Diego Harbor Excursion tour. It was a 2 hour tour of the harbor that took us past the U. S. Navy surface fleet, the Coronado Bay Bridge, shipyards, Shelter Island, Point Loma, the Submarine Base, the Naval Air Station and the Cabrillo National Monument. It was a lot of fun; the harbor was full of these great sailboats, fishing boats and sea life. After the tour, we headed to Old Town San Diego for dinner. We ended up at a Mexican restaurant called Cafe Coyote y Cantina. Great food and fabulous margaritas. We ended up walking around after dinner because we ate so much and finally headed back to the hotel about 10ish.

At 6am Sunday morning, KJ and I were on our way home. KJ dropped me off, showered and changed and then he headed right back for his convention. What a guy, huh? Taking me out there for a fun weekend, driving me home and then going back so he can work.

Wait a minute.....convention and work in the same sentence? hmmm . . . .