For Harmony’s birthday I surprised her with a trip to San Diego. The only real reason for choosing that location was the closest place with some sunshine. Harmony thought we were off to Bellingham for the weekend up till the day before we left.
We flew out Friday afternoon & made it to San Diego in the evening. Our hotel was right in the middle of the Gaslamp District. If I had to compare this area to someplace in Seattle I would have to say its like Pioneer Square. Friday night I treated my vegetarian girlfriend to dinner at a Brazilian all you can eat steakhouse. The moral of the story is learn a little more about a new restaurant before you get a table & order drinks…
Saturday morning we woke up to clear skies & sunshine. We had a quick breakfast on the roof then headed out to the San Diego Zoo. This is the first zoo I have been to outside of WA. It was way bigger & better put together than anything I had seen. Our tour of the zoo was on the fast track, I think were there for about 2.5 hours. Not only was the zoo impressive but the whole Balboa Park area was great.
After the park we back Downtown for lunch. We found a Mexican restaurant with sunny outdoor seating, it may have only been 60 outside but to us it felt like 80. After lunch we just walked around always staying on the sunny side of the street. It was just what we needed.
We got back to the hotel late afternoon, as we were heading in a couple was checking out that had “Theater” tickets they weren’t going to use. This show was running for 13 or so years in San Diego and was highly reviewed. To avoid hurting anyones feeling or being brought up on slander charges the show will remain nameless… It was beyond bad, the only thing I could think of is this is the Wal-Mart of theater…
Sunday morning we woke up to Seattle-like weather, it was raining & blowing. I took a little wrong turn on our way to breakfast and we got soaked to the bone…guess that was a sign that it was time to head home.
