Yesterday Ryan and I decided to trek on down to San Diego. We want to go last weekend, but the weather didn't cooperate with us. By about 10 it was still sunny (just a little chilly), so we decided to head down. First we had to go to the library so I could print a
2-for-1 coupon for
Balboa Park that I had found. The main reason we were going down was to see the
Japanese Friendship Garden. Last weekend was the
Cherry Blossom Festival that we wanted to go to. I was hoping that they were still in bloom, but most of the flowers had already fallen off.
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We still had fun walking around the garden (and Ryan took lots of pictures). Then we walked around some more of Balboa (and took more pictures).
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After that we headed down to Little Italy to get some lunch at the restaurant that Ryan and I had our rehearsal dinner at,
Cafe Zucchero.
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The service was craptastic, but hey, they food was yummy like always. We walked around Little Italy for a while, mainly because Ryan wanted to find this place called
Architectural Salvage of San Diego.
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He was looking for some wood block type faces or other things of the like. We didn't find anything to buy, but it was still a cool little shop - with plenty of old doors, doornobs, sinks, grates, etc. After that we decided to head back home. On the way I told Ryan that we should stop at the
Bali Hai, where we got married, seeing as we had just been to the restaurant we had our rehearsal dinner at.
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We stopped by for a quick geo cache and some pictures (see
the post below if you haven't read it yet about the changes they have made in the past few years there).
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We had a fun-filled, full day down in San Diego --- what did you do yesterday?
PS The rest of the pictures can be found
here