Porto Vista Hotel & Suites San Diego

Ok, here I go... This is the blog page for my trip to South America. For those of you bored enough to log on, I will try my best to keep my blogs and pictures up to date. I'll also try to keep the material interesting. Tomorrow is the big day and I am quite excited, why ...

... Palestine to France and many more. My kids especially are looking forward to attending some theatrical and musical performances by the San Diego Junior Theater and San Diego Civic Youth Ballet. And yes I forgot to add, the best part is actually free visit to all the museums. For two days visitors can visit all the museums free of cost in Balboa park. Now isn't it icing on the cake.

... was delicious. Mmm.

Each time I come back to the USA from a lesser-developed country, I do have a much greater appreciation for it than before. San Diego was only about a 45-minute drive. We went into downtown. As I was driving I noticed an old sailing ship. I've been really interesting in sailing lately, so I thought we should go over and take a look. It turned out to be the Maritime ...

... of armadillos comes up. I'm pretty sure I didn't eat an armadillo, because she asked me if I wanted beef or pork, but who knows? We were bored after a couple hours in Rosarito, so we decided to hit the road again and head south toward Ensenada.

... understand is why the sink is beside the bed in a super crowded bedroom, yet there is an enormous front room with too much extra space. Weird.
- Laughed our rumps off at some of your comments. Really, they are great. And it makes us feel connected thousands of miles away. We are up to 500 views tonight!

Finally, today ends the first quarter of our trip. Being the teachers that we are ...

... Andi, I was lucky enough to find another rideshare for about half the price it would've cost me to take the train. I was even more surprised when my ride was in a Porsche! SUV!! It turns out the guy I was riding with invented internet dating!! His classmates at Stanford were the Google and the Yahoo guys!! craziness eh? He had to be a multimillionaire, but was still this really laid back, easy to talk, non pretentious guy who simply needed some help driving to CA ...

... just stay in San Diego and continue...so I thought long and hard about it (right mom!?) and decided the next day that I would just lose out on a plane ticket (which I can still use within one year with an additional $150 change fee, GRRRR). So...This is my 1st week as a full-time crew member! It is pretty dang cool! I am very excited about the adventures to come ahead. This boat is massive. I think there are like 17 or 18 crew ...

... ever in town, may I recommend Seaport Village. A small icon of SD that sits on the bay. Filled with shopping and restaurants, a whole day can be spent in Seaport Village alone. I also recommend eating at the Harbor House Restaurant. Order the lobster bisque, oyster's Rockefeller, and the scallop and shrimp fettuccine. Mmmm... delicioso! And if seafood's not your cup of tea, I highly recommend making reservations to Donovan's steakhouse. The best steak you'll ever ...

... we are both diehard CFL fans. As we left the lounge, we decided to have a slice of pizza ourselves and the poor pizza man was 'sweating like he stole something'. We made the decision of which pizza to get pretty easy, as he was out of almost everything. Poor guy was exhausted....all for the love of the game. As a side note, on our way downton we got a tad off-course. We ended up in a rough looking ...

... conditioning switches simultaneously. The result, predictably, was an unstable power supply which caused blackouts in certain areas of the city (but not, of course, in the business district). The newspapers the next morning were full of angry howls and indignant letters. One newspaper even went so far to suggest that the power companies were recklessly endangering the life of a small cutesy American-pie blonde girl who needs a ventilator each afternoon.


The next day we took ...