Monday, June 22, 2009

Weekend in San Diego


School is finally over. Lizzie and Jeff invited us to attend Jeff's Citizen Band CD release party at Brick by Brick in San Diego. It was a nice day to spend Father's Day!

First we stopped by Lizzie's house and we went out to lunch, we were going to a very popuylar BBQ place called Phil's but there were so many people we decided not to stay. We ended up at The Olive Garden where we had a very nice lunch. A funny thing happened, our server had finished his shift, and we got a new server. After we finished our meal, we waited and waited for the server to come and give us the bill, finally I got up and called a waitress and told her we had been waiting and it seemed like they had forgotten about us. shortly after the server came with aspologies, and told us we could have a drink or dessert on the house to make up for the delay. We chose not to. A few minutes later, the manager came, very apologetic, and said the meal was on the house, and to please excuse the delay and next time he promised we would have the best of service. All in all it was nice to enjoy a free meal :)
After lunch, we checked in at a cool hotel called Porto Vista, in the Little Italy area of San Diego. We went by Extraordinary desserts and bought some yummy cake, and then took a nap and got ready for the party.
The show was great, a lot of very excited people digging the music, we saw a lot of friends we had met in other Jeff's shows. We really enjoyed the vibe and the music.
After a very good night sleep (great beds), we woke up and had breakfast at The Glass Door restaurant of the hotel, with a great view of San Diego and the harbor. After check out we went by Lizzie's and she told us Jeff had a flat tire in his pick up and had left his pick up at the venue, we called AAA and went back to Brick by Brick and waited for the tow truck.
And then we drove back home. We drove the SSR and the weather was beautiful and we sure had a really enjoyable weekend.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Counting the days...

I have been so busy is not even funny! the last days of school are the hardest.the kids sense school is almost over and they act like crazy people, in all grade levels! It's exhausting! We are done with all the testing, still working on report cards, Monday the picnic at the park, Tuesday the Kindergarten promotion and performance, and finally on Thursday it's "Have a good Summer, kids". I surely will miss them -for about 10 seconds lol.
Then it's clean up time, more fun...not! I am dreading it, putting things away, getting rid of stuff that I haven't used in years. I am not good at it, I tend to save everything and I even get attached to useless things.
So wish me luck!