Even though we spent only about 10 hours in this city, my wife has already declared San Diego one of her most favorite cities. It's easy to see why.
To begin, it is a dynamic, beautiful place...
Here above is my lovely wife and our kids at Seaport Village, a eclectic gathering of shops overlooking the Port of San Diego.
Personally, I think Cari likes this place so much because it's just a bit off-kilter.
Or as this sign says...
"Normal" is closed for the day.
For instance, consider this next traffic sign (which is blurry because I tried to take the picture while driving down the street...
Turning traffic must yield to pedestrians.
However, if you're going straight, feel free to run them down.
We spent most of the day exploring the greatest zoo in the world -- the famous San Diego Zoo.
This place is absolutely enormous so we came prepared to walk all day. But this is San Diego...
So rather than walk up a hill outdoors at the zoo, you take escalators instead!
When it came to lunch, we figured like most zoos, we could expect hot dogs, hamburgers, and lots of french fries.
Well, that'd be just a bit too normal...
Hey, what kind of world would this be if at the San Diego Zoo you couldn't buy Lobster Quesadillas from a lunch counter?
Now my grandparents hail from the Philippines -- and we are Visayans...
Just like the Warty Pig, it appears.
Now this next picture isn't all that weird, but I like it nonetheless.
I work for the Nevada Community Foundation, whose mission is to build and stregthen community. We're always looking for new ideas that might be just the medicine Nevada might need. Little did we know that the answer could be found in San Diego...
Just go to your Community Presecription Center for your neighborhood's medicine.
Before we headed out of town, we met up with my cousin Fred and his three boys -- complete with a little diversion to the beach...
Amazingly enough, it occured to Cari and me that our four youngest children have never seen either the ocean or a real beach. The closest thing before today were beaches on fresh water lakes -- which are always slimy and yucky.
This beach along the Pacific Ocean was absolutely beautiful...
As the day was coming to an end, Freddy's boys posed with our kids just before sunset...
My wife would probably argue that this was the most beautiful scenery of the day as we watched the sunset over the Pacific Ocean...
I might argue that the best thing my eyes saw today (other than my wife's perpetual beauty, of course) is this...
The "Wop Your Jaws" plate -- chicken katsu, teriyaki beef, kal-bi, rice, and of course, macaroni salad (which I know now is widely available across the country, but quite frankly, is never as good as the kind from Hawaii!).
Tomorrow, we're off to Disneyland! Ta ta 'til then!
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