It is always fun to have someone come into town. It gives us a great excuse to revisit what makes San Diego such a great town. Also, since I have yet to find a job, I was able to spend the trip with her! It was awesome to have a buddy around, and especially her. She is a very easy going and fun person to be around. Needless to say, the first thing we did (and everyday there after) when was here was head to the beach! I was a little worried about the weather, a few days before she came we had mostly days in the mid to high 70's and the week she was here it said it was dropping to high 60's but I forget that San Diego can still be so warm even in the 60's. It turned out to be perfect sunning weather which we did plenty of. We even jumped in the water a few times!
Coincidently we had two other friends in town that were staying up North with Matt and his girlfriend Alyssa. Poor Charlie had to work this day but we all met at Torrey Pines Beach to do the hike on the cliffs and walk the beach. Such a gorgeous day.
Then of course after our scenic hike we needed to refuel..
Luckily Charlie scheduled worked out that he had his 3 day weekend when she was here so on one of his days off we decided we would take the hike to Blacks beach. It was another great day and Dana and I pretty much had the beach to ourselves! I was even able to get some pictures of Charlie surfing on his new board.
The view from the top of blacks beach.
We spent a majority of our time at the beach, lots of walks and tanning sessions. I am always appreciative of where we live but when you have someone visiting it is like another reminder to be grateful!
Luckily Dana's selfie game was on point so we got a lot of pictures, which was good because I'm not nearly as on top of it as she was!
A view from the end of the pier.
I was hesitant about posting this next part because I didn't want any parents having panic attacks but Charlie said I should just go ahead and do it.
One activity that Charlie and I have been saying we are going to do is go spend a day in Tijuana. There has been a lot of movements to start cleaning it up and bring back life to the area. Charlie has a coworker who actually lives down there, originally he is from Rhode Island, and commutes to Poway everyday. He had been assuring Charlie that things are better down there and Americans are starting to come visit on weekends again. Also, a lot of the Southern California surfing community is still going to Baja regularly and Charlie has been pursuing a lot of surfing sights about Americans traveling. We generally have the mindset that if your not an idiot and doing any questionable activity, you will be OK and can enjoy yourself, which is exactly what we did!
While Dana was out here we had a few other friends in town as well. They were suppose to leave on the day we went to Mexico but coincidentally their flight was cancelled! They are big travelers and brought their passports to SD with them on a whim so they were excited to jump on the opportunity to come with us!
We were all a little nervous when we first got there. There was a HUGE line at the border to get back into the states and we weren't expecting that at all. We actually were thinking maybe we should turn around now and get on line to get back but we decided not to since we had come all that way.
Once we all got to the main street, Revolucion, our anxieties had started to ease. We found a great modern clean place that was on a rooftop which is where the picture above was taken.
View from the roof.
I wish I had pictures of the food we got. It was all so good. We probably ate at 4 different places, getting street tacos, taquitos, nachos and other creations on the same ingredients hah. It was really authentic, clean and tasty! Despite its reputation, no one got sick from the food or drink, just stuffed. We did a lot of walking around, bouncing to different places, shopping, and of course, eating.
We stumbled (not literally) on a really cool brewpub type of place that had a lot of local people who were are age. We had some authentic locally brewed beer..
As well as some local favorites, I'm pretty sure it's a michelada which is beer, tomato juice and seasonings all around the rim. Heather (Rob's wife who is pictured below) was practicing her Spanish and asked someone sitting next to us what they were drinking. Definitely didn't understand their response even though we asked a few times but we called over the waitress, pointed to their drink, and they delivered which is what you are seeing below! We were all pretty excited about that..
We brought back a lot of goodies, Charlie and I got some really cool glasses, a new blanket, a little pocket book for me and a couple other trinkets. By 8pm we decided we should head back and were pleased to walk up to no line at all at the border!! It was as easy as ever to get back and took all about 2 minutes. Once we were over we hopped on the trolley home.
Then we tried to stay up, but all fell asleep on the couch..
It was a great week! I will miss having my beach buddy around but we made everyday count!
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