California

Photo of mackerel clouds and a single palm tree in Sunny Southern California.

Sunny So Cal 3/52

Sunny So Cal While the rest of the country has been dealing with temperatures well below normal, we’ve been having a heat wave here in Southern California. My car’s thermometer hit 90˚F on two separate days this week. Now, granted this was because the car had been sitting in the sun with the windows up,…

Gone to the Beach

DH came home from a business trip this morning and we snuck out of town a little after 6pm. Traffic wasn’t too bad except for the border patrol check point in San Onofre which began moving promptly again at precisely 7:30 pm. Illegal immigrants must abide by the holiday schedule as well, you see. So…

Opaque

Last night we dumped the kids at the martial arts studio’s beach party and went downtown to eat at Opaque, one of those dining in the dark places. We were early for our reservations, so we sat in the lobby of the local W hotel and drank $10 cocktails. The décor there was cool with…

Thursday Thirteen: San Diego Tourism

  13 Touristy Things To Do In San Diego   Since I’ve got family visiting this week and I know of several people planning to visit the city, I thought I’d toss these up this week. We’re talking about going on the whale/dolphin tour thing tomorrow. DD asked why I didn’t include Disneyland (where we…

Slow Return to Normalcy

We just received news that 20 staff and over 340 students in the Poway school district have lost their homes. Staggering news. In order to get the community back into normal routines, they have canceled the half week off school next week for Parent/Teacher conferences. Guess it’s a good thing we hadn’t planned a trip…

Thursday Thirteen: Evacuated!

  We came back from Legoland to drive into a wall of smoke from the fires out in Ramona on Sunday afternoon. We decided we’d better pack our bags just in case and have everything ready to go in case we needed it. I would have happily unpacked it all unused! We decided we’d pack…