Friday the 3rd of May and I am in the air on my way back home.
It's been a long week, a little
I guess it is best to just start from the beginning to tell the story.
Candy and I flew in on the evening of the 25th and tried to much as we
could do with the time that we had together. We started off by going to
the San Diego Zoo. This has to be one of the nicest zoos that I have been
to. The weather was spectacular and it wasn't too crowded for a Friday.
One of the things I think we both enjoyed the most was all flora that
grows in this area and plus what they had at the zoo. Everything was in
bloom and green, very different from our Colorado vegetation. It
would be nice to be able to grow the types of plants, cactus, trees, flowers
that they have. The zoo is nicely laced out and we spent most of our
time walking looking at all the animals. One of our favorites had to be
the baby Panda. So cute you just want to take him home. We all
know how that ends though. You find yourself on one of the shows, like
when animals attack or worlds dumbest. They sure are cute though. See the zoo pictures
After finishing our tout through the zoo we were headed back to the hotel
and saw a sign for Coronado Island. We decided since it was still early
enough would drive across the bridge and check it out. We ended up on Silver
Strand State Beach and decided to walk. Took off our shoes, socks and
rolled our pants up and away we went. We had a blast looking for
sea shells, there were so many. I can only name one and that is a sand
dollar. We managed to find 8 or 9 that were complete and not broke.
We also found a variety of other shells as we strolled along.
Later that evening we looked up the name for the beach and found out that it
ranks third in regards to the best beaches to find sea shells. There
were several people who were kite surfing. Now this looks like it should
be a lot of fun, once you figured out how to maneuver and turn. If we
had more time I would have like to try it myself, might need a bigger sail to
get my fat ass up and going.
We packed up our collection of sea shells and continued our drive and made
our way back to the hotel. We then headed out to seaport village and
found a place for dinner. We both ate too much but it was so good.
From here it was back to the hotel and we both crashed after our big day.
On Saturday we headed out around 10 AM and drove up to Torrey
Pines State Park. We were looking to get some hiking in and from the
research we did this looked like a nice place to do so. We parked along the
coast and made our way up the road to catch the trail head. The first
trail was about a mile loop with some great views of the ocean down below.
The second trail we took was the Beach trail. This trail took you
through the hills and then ended down on the beach. From here you can
walk back to the parking area. It was a great day to be out and again we
really enjoyed the change in scenery, all together we managed to get about 5
miles logged. See Torrey Pines Sate Park pictures
On our way back we headed to Old Town. This is an area in old down
town with lots of shops and restaurants. Our first stop was to find something
to eat as neither of us had any breakfast. We ended up at Casa
Guadalajara and the food was great. I had seafood enchiladas and Candy
had enchiladas but three different kinds. Good Food!
After finding parking we made our way to old town and walked up and down
the street looking at the various shops and goods. I am not much of a
shopper but it was fun to look at all the different stuff they had and the
Mexican art. I think the only thing we bought was a wooden bowl with a
parrot painted on the inside. Candy thinks it will make a good candy
bowl. We did stop and buy a tortilla from one of the vendors.
They would make them up for you and then had butter and other seasonings to
add, very tasty.
Made our way back to the hotel and cleaned up after being out all day.
Headed back down and found a place for dinner.
Sunday, Candy had to fly back; she had a 2 PM flight. We
spent the morning getting her packed and me as we'll as I had to change rooms
for the conference I was attending. Once packed, we headed down
for a coffee and did some walking around the seaport village area. I
think we left about 11:30 and I drove Candy over to the airport for
her flight. It was a great weekend and we had a great time.
It worked out well as I dropped off Candy; I was able to pick up a
co-worker who was also flying in for the conference. Headed back to the
hotel and got all checked in again. We headed down to the pool and hung
out for an hour. I left and went and found out where our booth was
located and checked in. That evening we had one of our clients in town,
who was also here for the conference. We met up with them and headed out
for dinner. We found ourselves in a sushi restaurant. I don't know
the name of the platter that was order but on it in the middle were shrimp
heads and they were still moving, that was a little intense as I had not seen
that before. Once you finish the platter then they deep fry the shrimp
heads and bring them back out to you. We ate them.
Starting on Monday we were working the booth and talking with prospects,
made for long days, standing all day. Made for long night as well as we
had customers to entertain. On Tuesday night we held a little
party at the top of the Hyatt bar. I panicked as it almost didn't happen,
but that is another story. it did though and we had about 5 new prospects join
us in addition to our current customers. I guess about 20 people all
together. The party ended at 7:30 PM and then we were headed
out to dinner again.
On Wednesday afternoon we had a break so I headed over the check out
the Midway Museum. This was actually pretty cool! I am glad I took
the time to visit. I did a couple of the tours and learned a bit about
the ship and the various operations that it had been involved in. They
had numerous airplanes and displays from some of the various battles it had
been in. See Midway Pictures
Even with all the fun, I am so ready to get back home and get back into
my routine. I am behind with work and have a lot of catch up to do.
Happy Hiking
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