Ryan is sick, but still managed to carve two of the most amazing pumkins ever!
October 31, 2009
Our 5 Year Anniversary
So I am very, very late getting this up, but ...better late than never right? Remember our trip to San Diego that Ryan won a few posts back? Well we took it in celebration for our five year anniversary (has it really been that long?) October 14th-19th. It was sooo great!
The flight over wasn't my favorite part (I'm not the most comfortable flyer), but once we got there and walked into 75 degree weather - pure bliss!!
Our hotel room was awesome!! Definatley a place that we wouldn't be able to pay for ourselves. There were views of the marina from every room (bathroom included) & the hotel was perfectly situated walking distance to everything and anything. What we couldn't walk to the metro was infront of the hotel and ferry's were in the back.
Seaport Village was a short walk along the dock full of shoppes and restaruants & had many statues, memorials & ships (there was a cruise ship departing from a port every day - if we had had the time I would have totally jumped on!). Little Italy was alot of fun!! There wasn't too much to do there but eat - is that so bad! The streets were lined with restaruant after garlicy smelling restaruant. We stopped in a local shop and asked where the place to eat was. We were directed to go to Filipinni's. The BEST pizza in the world and not bad eggplant parmesan. It's actually an Italian grocery and the restaurant is in the back - the best place ever. We enjoyed time relaxing in the piazza's eating our very expenisive gelato and planning where to go next. Coronado is a special little place.We were able to ferry over there and spend the day. We walked around shops and went down Orange Street (the main street that goes from one side to the other of Coronado) which brough us to The Hotel Del Coronado. Now not only is this hotel the last victorian built hotel that is still working, but it's the site of one of my favorite films "Some Like It Hot" with Marilyn Monoroe, Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis (if you haven't seen it - do!). I had so many plans with different pictures I was going to take from different scenes of the movie only to find that they have changed quite alot since the 50's. We had just missed Tony Curtis by a few weeks who was there celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie. We took a few pictures and then we hit the beach. The ocean was soooo cooooold, but after all that walking I was ready for a rest! Gas Lamp is considered the hub of downtown. All the restaurants, shops, etc is there. It was really cool to walk around and see all the sites like Petco Park (home of the Padres), NBC Corp headquarters that had no idea what I was talking about when I asked if The Office was filmed there (it's filmed in LA) & a shopping mall that was so huge and so expensive it almost made me sick. We ate very well in the Gas Lamp district. We totally recommend Nicky Rotten's. They have the best hamburgers in the world (we forgot our camera or you would have seen a pic of the burger that was as big as my face) & one morning we had breakfast at the Broken Yoke Cafe. An oober swanky IHOP-like place that not only makes a killer breakfast, but gives the homeless one free meal a week. We then headed up to Old Town I orgionally didn't really want to go - the thought seemed a bit boring - but when a local told us that it was the best authentic Mexican in San Diego - we went (can you tell that we really travel more by food, than by places?). It was awesome. Since we were there in October they had decked the place out for Day of the Dead. Skeletons in sombreros everywhere. We ate some delicious Mexican food (it ranked a 6 in Ryan's Authentic Mexican list....we were starving so we went to the first restaurant in the touristy part of Old Town instead of searching outside) and walked around a lot of shops, old trees and tile....colorful tiles everywhere. We also went to an Olive Oil tasting. That's right little shots of different kinds of olive oil - it was actually really good.
It was a wonderful vacation and awesome anniversary and soooo hard to come back to rain and SNOW!!!!!
The flight over wasn't my favorite part (I'm not the most comfortable flyer), but once we got there and walked into 75 degree weather - pure bliss!!
Our hotel room was awesome!! Definatley a place that we wouldn't be able to pay for ourselves. There were views of the marina from every room (bathroom included) & the hotel was perfectly situated walking distance to everything and anything. What we couldn't walk to the metro was infront of the hotel and ferry's were in the back.
Seaport Village was a short walk along the dock full of shoppes and restaruants & had many statues, memorials & ships (there was a cruise ship departing from a port every day - if we had had the time I would have totally jumped on!). Little Italy was alot of fun!! There wasn't too much to do there but eat - is that so bad! The streets were lined with restaruant after garlicy smelling restaruant. We stopped in a local shop and asked where the place to eat was. We were directed to go to Filipinni's. The BEST pizza in the world and not bad eggplant parmesan. It's actually an Italian grocery and the restaurant is in the back - the best place ever. We enjoyed time relaxing in the piazza's eating our very expenisive gelato and planning where to go next. Coronado is a special little place.We were able to ferry over there and spend the day. We walked around shops and went down Orange Street (the main street that goes from one side to the other of Coronado) which brough us to The Hotel Del Coronado. Now not only is this hotel the last victorian built hotel that is still working, but it's the site of one of my favorite films "Some Like It Hot" with Marilyn Monoroe, Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis (if you haven't seen it - do!). I had so many plans with different pictures I was going to take from different scenes of the movie only to find that they have changed quite alot since the 50's. We had just missed Tony Curtis by a few weeks who was there celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie. We took a few pictures and then we hit the beach. The ocean was soooo cooooold, but after all that walking I was ready for a rest! Gas Lamp is considered the hub of downtown. All the restaurants, shops, etc is there. It was really cool to walk around and see all the sites like Petco Park (home of the Padres), NBC Corp headquarters that had no idea what I was talking about when I asked if The Office was filmed there (it's filmed in LA) & a shopping mall that was so huge and so expensive it almost made me sick. We ate very well in the Gas Lamp district. We totally recommend Nicky Rotten's. They have the best hamburgers in the world (we forgot our camera or you would have seen a pic of the burger that was as big as my face) & one morning we had breakfast at the Broken Yoke Cafe. An oober swanky IHOP-like place that not only makes a killer breakfast, but gives the homeless one free meal a week. We then headed up to Old Town I orgionally didn't really want to go - the thought seemed a bit boring - but when a local told us that it was the best authentic Mexican in San Diego - we went (can you tell that we really travel more by food, than by places?). It was awesome. Since we were there in October they had decked the place out for Day of the Dead. Skeletons in sombreros everywhere. We ate some delicious Mexican food (it ranked a 6 in Ryan's Authentic Mexican list....we were starving so we went to the first restaurant in the touristy part of Old Town instead of searching outside) and walked around a lot of shops, old trees and tile....colorful tiles everywhere. We also went to an Olive Oil tasting. That's right little shots of different kinds of olive oil - it was actually really good.
It was a wonderful vacation and awesome anniversary and soooo hard to come back to rain and SNOW!!!!!
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