Adventure at the Westgate

Thanks to a family wedding, my siblings and I were all able to gather together, along with our parents, and spend some quality time together. In fact, here's a rare photo op: all of us Wheeler ladies together!
As you can imagine, the months before the wedding were quite eventful and, at times, very stressful. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to have some R & R time with my sister, Diane, immediately following the reception. Diane is an accountant for an oil company and her company owns a bunch of hotels. For every year that she is with the company, she accrues 2 complimentary nights at the company hotel of her choosing, for herself and a guest. So, she invited me to come along. We stayed in the Westgate Hotel in downtown San Diego, which has an interior modeled after the Palace of Versailles. Here's a pic I found of the lobby: It was B-E-A-utiful and definitely the nicest place I will probably ever have a chance to stay in. We checked out the room...... and then ordered room service at about 1:00 a.m. This was the first time I've ever ordered room service and it was way cool. They rolled in a little cart and then put the sides up, so that it made a round table, then the guy put two chairs up to the table for us. There was even a real flower on the table. The food was delish!

After our late dinner, we just chilled in the room for a bit. We had the coolest view! This is the view from the balcony of our 18th floor room. Amazing! In the daylight we also had a view of the ocean to the right and in front of us.


The next morning, we got ready and went to breakfast. I got to use the big marble shower just off of the dressing room and Diane took a bath in the huge bathtub. It was way fancy!
This is the dressing room and you can see the shower in the back.

We had breakfast at the restaurant in the hotel. I had waffles with carmelized banana slices and a smoothie.
Diane and me at breakfast:

After breakfast, we explored the hotel a little bit. Here we are in the lobby:
Here's a picture in the hallway. We thought it was kinda funny that even the hallways had even the smallest detail perfect. The bottom of the curtains were all fanned out at the bottom like people fan out the trains on wedding dresses for pictures.
After breakfast we walked to Seaport Village to check out a couple of shops. On the way, we passed some cool stuff downtown.

It was a beautiful day in San Diego and the ocean, as usual, was simply beautiful!


Finally, we went back to the hotel to get our bags and check out and we headed to the San Diego Temple. Unfortunately, it had closed early that day because of the Relief Society broadcast, so we just took a look at it and then drove home. We had a great time and it was nice to spend some quality time with my sister!