Last weekend, I had the opportunity to spend the weekend in San Diego with my sister, Diane. Her company owns lots of hotels and one of the employee perks is getting a certain amount of R&R days to spend at one of their properties, in which everything is comped. After work on Friday, I headed down to San Diego so that I could be there in time to pick Diane up from the airport. However, I ran into terrible traffic and it took a little more than three hours to get there. Fortunately, Diane's flight was late, so the timing actually worked out perfectly!
After I picked her up at the airport, we headed to the hotel in downtown San Diego. Here are a couple of pictures of our beautiful hotel!
We had both had long, frustrating weeks at work and were both ready for a weekend to just take it easy and that's exactly what we did! Here's the first sister-selfie of the weekend!
First, we ordered room service for dinner and then headed out for a walk through the Gaslamp Quarter. I had never really spent much time there, so it was fun to walk around there. It was a Friday night, so there was definitely lots going on and lots of interesting people hanging around. We walked for a long time and it was nice to be out in the fresh air, just chatting and catching up.
There also happened to be a San Diego Padres game going on, which may explain some of the extra traffic! Petco Park, where the Padres play, is right in the middle of the Gaslamp Quarter and it was fun to see and hear the excitement from the game!
After walking for quite a while, we headed back to the hotel to get some sleep. However, around 11 pm, construction began on the street below us. We were 14 stories up, but we could hear all of the construction as if it were occurring on our balcony. My favorite part was around 3 o'clock in the morning when they began jack-hammering the concrete for about an hour solid. Not cool, San Diego. Not cool! Oh well! I guess it all just adds to the adventure! In the morning, I snapped this picture of what they had been working on all night. I'm pretty sure all of the missing concrete was removed during the aforementioned jack-hammer hour.
Anyways, we woke up at our leisure and ordered room service for breakfast. It was pretty cool to have breakfast delivered to our room with a vase of fresh roses on the cart.
After breakfast, we went up to the rooftop pool and hung out up there for a while before returning to our room for a room service lunch. We decided to be super lazy on the trip and opted to have all of our meals done through room service. After lunch, we checked out of the hotel and went out for another walk. This time we stayed mostly along the water and saw some of the famous ships, like the Star of India, and then we walked to Seaport Village. When we were done, we went back to the hotel to get my car and then drove out to Coronado Island. This is my favorite beach and Diane had never been there before, so I got to introduce her to the golden, glittery sand. And, of course, we took another sister-selfie since there was no one to take a picture for us.
Next, it was off to La Jolla Cove! This was the first time either of us had ever remembered going there. It was awesome! The water was so blue and beautiful and there were sea lions everywhere! They didn't even care that there were a ton of people all around. There were several that were even laying on the sand right next to group of people. We were cautious, but we definitely got a closer look at them than we ever had before.
It was just an overall gorgeous beach!
After we spent some time at the coves, we headed home. It was sad that the weekend had gone by so quickly, but overall, it really was just a perfect weekend! Perfect weather, beautiful beaches, and plenty of sister time!
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