Sightseeing and the Beach

Last day in San Diego. Back home, the temperatures are in the teens. We knew we had to make the most of it.

We got up and got ready early, opting to go down to Pacific Beach for breakfast at a place called Kono’s. Blueberry pancakes for Nora and me, huge-ass breakfast burritos for Jay and Michael. We ate outside on a deck overlooking the beach. Not a bad way to start a day. I’m not going to lie; we’ve had a lot of “I think we could live here” moments the last day or two.

After breakfast we took a little walk down the pier. Nora could see and hear the water beneath us, and she kept saying, “In! In!” Little nutcase wanted to frolic in the waves like yesterday.

It was a beautiful morning, but still a bit chilly. But we walked down off of the pier and onto the beach so Nora could play. And sure enough, she wanted to go down by the water right away. Off came her pants so she could run around in her diaper and t-shirt. :)

Once Nora had some time to run off some steam, we all piled back in Jay’s car and dropped by the grocery store to pick up some stuff to make sandwiches to pack for the beach in the afternoon. Then we took a ride to a couple of scenic overlooks to fit in some more sightseeing before Nora’s nap.

The first was Mt. Soledad, and it was definitely pretty up there!

It probably goes without saying after seeing the above pic, but Nora was not in the mood for photos here! Ha!

From there, we drove to Torrey Pines. Again, beautiful. Torrey Pines had a lot of really nice looking hiking trails, but that wasn’t something we were going to attempt with Nora. We’ll have to come back someday. For now, we just used the opportunity to take a few more photos.

Then we went back to Jay’s for a while so Nora could take a nap. It was later than we hoped, as we wanted to spend the afternoon at the beach. But we knew she needed some rest, so we let her nap until a little after 2:00, at which point we actually woke her up.

By the time we got to the beach, things were already cooling off pretty significantly since the winter mid-afternoon sun isn’t all that powerful! But it was pretty, and HEY, we were ON A BEACH. IN JANUARY. Can’t complain about that. And Nora? She didn’t care one bit.

We picked her up some sand toys so she spent a good amount of time playing in the sand, but eventually she did gravitate toward the water again. A quick change into her bathing suit and she was off.

Before too long, she came back because even she was cold! We snuggled up to watch the sunset.

Once the sun had set, we packed up and went back to Jay’s. We grilled burgers and hot dogs for dinner, and got ourselves ready for the long trip home.

I don’t wanna go.