And the thing that made our lives so much easier.
But first, here's a picture of a cloud that I took while Sabrina and I cloudwatched in the backseat :D
It's a whale!
Went to UCSD, but failed to recognize anyone there. Drove over to La Jolla Cove, with lots of men in speedos, pelicans, and dramatic wave-crashing-on-rocks action. La Jolla is quite the pretty little beach town, really...
Saw the Old Man and the Sea.
Got a text from my sister. SHE GOT INTO A PROGRAM AT OXFORD. HOLYCRAPTHATSFREAKINGAWESOMEOMGAAAAAAAHH. Pretty exciting.
Went over to Balboa Park with its 1000 museums. But we were there for one reason: The Museum of Photographic Arts. Interesting. Some pictures made me sit and wonder, while others looked like glorified myspace pictures. The Lou Stoumen and Edward Steichen exhibits were particularly powerful. Sadly, no pictures of the pictures.
Took a picture with this weird ceramic tile-covered lizard thing...what? No idea. But it was in front of a museum, if that helps at all.
Went on an adventure to through the jungle to find the car! Spoke of Pokemon and things. You know, those things that high school seniors talk about. We're going on a bear hunt!
We were freaking starving at that point, so onwards to Phil's BBQ! Cheap, delicious pork shoulder sandwich. Coleslaw. Ridiculous amount of fries. Ice cold Coke. Really really really good server. What's there not to like? Well, except for the fact that the entire parking lot smells of hickory smoke. What a tease.
Drove up to Point Loma lighthouse and the Cabrillo monument, which gave us a nice view of San Diego and the surrounding area. The lighthouse itself was quite interesting, with mock ups of the rooms that the families lived in at the lighthouse. Oh man, that seashell frame from hell. Godforsaken handicrafts...
Yay for the lighthouse's spiral staircase! I'm sure Tree and Sabby will have the same spiral picture, so here's a little bit of a different one.
Jeff and I contemplated suicide by cliffjumping. Jeff actually did it, sort of. Scared the shit out of Tree. Pretty funny.
Headed on over to Extraordinary Desserts, where Andrea took me last time I visited SD.
The Viking. Layers of chocolate cake, mousse, creme broulee, crushed pralines, and whatever other chocolate concoctions they can think of. I liked my old picture of it better, but here's a closeup of the layers.
And some Creme Brulee with delicious strawberry on top :D Deeelicious.
The flower petals and gold foil were definitely unnecessary though. Not a big fan of overdone decorations. It makes it seem like they're compensating for lackluster food. Which in this case, they weren't. But it sure seemed like it.
Here's a link to my old picture of it.
Now, Jeff decided to eat the ball of chocolate frosting on top of the Viking. Not gonna lie...that was pretty disgusting.
So to wash it all down, we went back to the car and drank from Jeff's random 3-liter water bottle. It now tastes strangely of chocolate -__-
Headed on over to Pacific Beach, where the pier is a privately owned extension of a hotel. What the crap?!
The sun began to set, so we sped on over to Sunset Cliffs. What an appropriate name. Barely made it in time, jumped out of the car, and ran to the edge of the cliffs to snap off a few shots. San Diego has many cliffs...
Sadly, some cloud cover blocked the majority of the sunset. My consolation prize was a series of long exposure shots of the surrounding rocks.
At first I was mad at the blur, but looking at it now, it makes it look like an Impressionist painting or something. At least to me.
Made one last stop at UCSD to visit Grace Mak. She took us to Muir's cafe and treated us to some food. Swiper no swiping! Aww man!
Got a chocolate shake. Actually, we all got some kind of smoothie-drink thing.
Jeff: "I don't know about your guys' smoothies, but mine is really really good"
XD
Said our goodbyes, and we were off to rush Sabby home.
The long road back to Torrance.
Thanks to Jeff for driving. Thanks to all three of em for being such awesome daytripping buddies.
I love Spring Break.
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