Panama Canal 2011 Vacation: San Diego

I started my day bright and early… nobody was up in our group. I couldn’t sleep past 7am, so I checked email and then went to the lobby for breakfast #1. I sat outside and just people watched for awhile. My dad showed up a little after 8ish and Doug finally came out of his hole around 8:30 (complaining about how early it was). All 6 of us landed up having breakfast together (my breakfast #2). We came up with a game plan for the day and then we went our separate ways. Connie and Eleanor went to Balboa Park and the 4 of us wandered over to Old Town via the Trolley.

The trolley here works very well. You buy a $5/day pass and can use it all day long. We of course took pictures of Doug getting hauled up by the lift. This is all new to us, so it has to be documented.

We got to Old Town around 10:30 and saw that they were doing some celebrations for Mexican Independence Day. How lucky can one get (I planned it all of course). Doug and my dad went to the cigar shop and me and my mom browsed a few Mexican shops. I think it is kinda funny that we are browsing Mexican shops when we will be in Mexico on a few days. I just bought a San Diego shot glass (made in mexico). Then we went to our favourite Mexican Restaurant in San Diego called Casa de Reyes and watched some live music for the celebrations. We had a lovely lunch and then walked back to the hotel to get a bit of rest before our next stop. Now when I say we went for a rest, I am talking about Doug and my parents… I don’t rest on a vacation HA HA HA

The next part of our day was doing a harbor cruise on the Hornblower. We did this the last time we were here, but figured it would be fun to go with my group. We managed to see a very unique sighting on the water… the hovercraft from Camp Pendleton. Turns out it is Fleet Week here in San Diego this week and there is a lot of military activity going on.

After the harbor cruise we came back to the hotel and rested (sigh… this seems to be a theme in my blogs). We didn’t go out for dinner as we were still full from our lunch, but we did eat the things we bought at the deli from yesterday. YUMMY! Also Jack in the Box had $1 pop, so we had to buy some of that too.

Our day pass for the Trolley came in handy as we were off to the game. I bought tickets to the San Diego Padre’s game because I heard that MercyMe was going to be playing a concert after the game. The tickets were $13 and we got some great seats. This was our first ever baseball game and it was fun. We didn’t go for the beginning of it though. We got there around the 6th inning (I think that is what it is called). We got to see the Padre’s win the game, which apparently was cheering worthy to the crowd HEE HEE HEE!! MercyMe started around 8:45 and it was great. Sure our seats for such a concert wasn’t very good, but it was fine by us. We could have moved closer, but we were comfy. They are a great band and I really enjoyed the concert. I love listening to God music. No matter how hard life is, listening to worship music makes things seem a little better.