San Diego

We had a great time in San Diego. The weather was perfect, blue skies, temperature in the high 60's...

We stayed at the Holiday Inn, we thought it was the one across the Star of Inida, but it was the one in Bayside, a little farther north, in Point Loma. Our room was in the 4th floor overlooking the harbor, beautiful.

We drove to the Star of India, and Grey showed us where the show would take place, everybody was super friendly and nice, we got the best seats in the house in my opinion! as we were early, M and I went to have a quick dinner at Anthony's, clam chowder and calamari, yum!

The show started at 7:30, it was great, lots of people, lots of fun and great music. Grey introduced us to the musicians, including Steve Poltz, and Barbara Nesbitt. I really enjoy the way Han plays djembe - I think that's the name- he is one of the best players around, I love the sound of it and the way he plays them, hard on the hands~! Flannery sang and told stories about his life and about baseball, he's funny. His brother flew from Kentucky to play and sing with him. Grey read an awesome poem she wrote about the Star if India.

It was a fun night, before playing the last song, Flannery wished me a happy birthday!

The night ended about 11:30. M and I went back to the hotel and had a good night sleep.

Next day we went to Julian, it was about an hour drive inland from San Diego, once we got to the mountains it cooled off a little and there was snow on the ground. After driving on a twisty road, we arrived in Julian, which is a quaint historic gold mining town well known for its apple orchards and scrumptious apple pie. We drove around and around and couldn't find any parking! luckily in our last drive thru we found a parking place right in front of the Apple Pie Co. we went in and had a wonderful slice of warm apple pie. Shortly after walking around a few shops, we made our way back to San Diego. In the evening we went to Grey's house and took her out to dinner, she gave me a box of excellent English soaps that I really enjoyed during my visit to the Morongo Casino, she called the Casino and found out the name of the soaps and ordered them online, very thoughtful! Han couldn't go as he had band practice. We went to Ponce's Mexican restaurant, just a few blocks down from her house. The food was great, flautas for Grey and me, enchiladas for M. We had flans for dessert, when I got mine, M presented me with a gorgeous square cut diamond ring!!!!!! :)

After dinner we stayed in the house for a while, watching Han's band rehearse, it was very cool and we enjoyed it.

On Sunday, M and I drove around Point Loma and went up to the light house. Has a wonderful view of San Diego, The Pacific and the mountains. Then we left back home, stopping at Chevy's in Del Mar for lunch.

All in all it was a very nice, long weekend. I enjoyed it very much.