"Business Trip" to San Diego

A week after we moved in, Mark called me on his way home from work and asked if I wanted to go to San Diego the following weekend.  Naturally I said yes! All I needed was a couple of trip buddies to have fun with while Mark spent the daytime at a dental laser course.  Since my mom and sister Ang are always up for a party, I was set!

The drive there wasn't too bad since my mom kept us entertained.  Her misfortune was like stand up comedy.  She spilled chocolate shake all over her pillow, was constantly failing at her attempts to put her socks on, and couldn't fix her one pant leg that was unhemmed because Lucy's huge seat stole all her mobility.   This probably doesn't sound very funny but it was in real life.  Thanks for sacrificing your comfort for our humor Mom! :)   

We only had two days to spend there so we tried to pack in the fun.  We started at the Mormon Battalion Museum where we became honorary members!!!  

I loved the exhibit.  We went through an interactive movie about the battalion that reminded me of a Disney ride. I was loving everything about the movie until I realized Brigham Young and I had the same hair.  It was then that I knew I needed a haircut.

Ang so graciously volunteered to become one of the batallion members during our experience.  Just kidding Ang--thanks for taking it for the team--again.

 

 

 Afterwards we went down the street to Old Town San Diego where we saw the old Courthouse that the Battalion helped build,

 

along with the jail, 

the Wells Fargo Builiding,

the first schoolhouse,

 

a historic mansion,

 

a stables museum,

and ate some great Mexican.

We still had an hour before we had to pick up Mark so I had the stupid idea of driving over to Coronodo bridge to see the view of the bay. It sounded great in my head until we got stuck in work traffic and there was only one way out--over the bridge, to the island, and back over the bridge.  We were late of course--poor Mark.

 

The next day we took some great trip advice from my friend Amy and saw a beautiful view of San Diego from Mount Soledad. 

Next we went to the Old Point Loma Lighthouse at Cabrillo National Monument.  I was super excited about this since I wanted to see a lighthouse in Florida before we left but never did.  I can finally check it off my bucket list.

 

The lighthouse also had a spectacular view of San Diego. It was beautiful! 

 

Last but not least we got to see live seals at Seal Beach.  It was crazy they were all just sitting there for everyone to see! So cool! 

We were late picking up Mark again because the first time the GPS took us to here!

I am still annoyed when I look at this.  Poor, patient Mark.

Luckily Mark got to do something that he wanted to do at the end of the day.  When we got to Mark, we were just in time to take pictures of the sunset. 

It was so nice to be at a beach again. I have to admit though, as pretty as this one was, I missed the Florida beaches a bit. The sand was so fine in San Diego but it didn't have the same clear blue color!

Thank you to Mark who's hard work made this "business trip" possible!