California Dreamin'

Thursday Casey and I headed off to the airport on our first real trip together. I was so proud of myself for getting everything together so we would be really organized. I packed snacks, printed boarding passes, and looked up our gate. We were ready. The only thing that I wasn’t looking forward to was paying $15 to check my suitcase. The guy who was checking us in held on to my ID for a little longer than normal which made me think something was wrong. He then said “I have a question. Do you always smile like this? [pointing to my ID picture].” I laughed and said yes. Then I got out my $15 dollars and he smiled back and said “Just the tip today.” I thought I had scored! Just because of my smile I had saved Casey and me $30! Come to find out later that Casey and I had booked our tickets outside of the “you have to now pay $15 window.” I was kind of bummed to find out my smile was not as magical as I had thought. So Casey and I went to gate A19 and sat down waiting to board our plane. Over the loud speaker we heard the lady at the gate say something about a delay in West Palm Beach. I told Casey our plane must be delayed because of a storm in West Palm Beach. This was a bummer since we should have been boarding at that moment. Casey took out his blackberry to see how long a delay we had. However, when he checked on our delay he found something more interesting out…we should have been at gate A18. Whoops! Our plane was boarding at that moment so it’s a good thing he checked. I have been informed that I am no longer allowed to be the point-person of airport travel. (The above pic is the view from my from my front porch in SD)

Once we landed in San Diego, my parents took us out to the Gaslamp District. The Gaslamp District is the hip area of downtown where restaurants line the street (kind of a large scale uptown for your Dallas folks.) We went to an Australian restaurant called Bondi where all of the waiters have real Australian accents. It has a real contemporary look to it. The large windows out front were like garage doors so the whole face of the restaurant was open (FYI Dallas Folks…you can do that in San Diego because it’s not 95 degrees, 80% humidity, with monster size mosquitoes biting you!) and the food was really tasty! Another cool feature of this place was this group of giant hanging wicker bird cage looking things. The ones that are not being used are raised to the ceiling and the rest and lowered to the ground and you can sit in them. After dinner we just walked around the Gaslamp District and checked out all the cool restaurants and people watched.