Many people have been asking how the weekend in San Diego went. It was fantastic! A miniature vacation really. It's amazing how just one night in a different city really refreshes you, and makes you ready for the coming week.
Saturday we left around 8:30 am to make it to Mission Bay, where we rented a Pontoon Boat for four hours. Unfortunately it was overcast, and VERY COLD. I had my bathing suit on under my many layers of clothing, but I stayed covered up. The guys stayed towards the back of the boat, where as we, the women, were bundled up with beach towels. We took off from the dock at 10:00am and just loitered all around the bay. The first thing that the guys did was attach a pirate's flag to the back of the pontoon. Yes, we are hard core. So as we are having fun, listening to music, drinking and eating, the Coast Guards come up to us. We though, "uh oh the pirate flag is what did us in." But no, they were just verifying that we had enough life jackets on board. Funny thing is, we barely had enough to go around. Ultimately we got an hour comped on our price since we had to "chaperoned" by the Coast Guard until a person from the company was at the closest dock with extra life jackets for us. After that incident, we went right back to just floating around....until 2:00pm.
After the boat ride, well wind burned and sun burned, the group decided to head back to the hotel for a dip in the hot tub and a nap before the night's festivities went underway. Instead of going to the hot tub, a walk downtown and through the Gaslamp District was in order. The walk was relaxing and it was nice to get some alone time. After the walk a short nap was due so that I wouldn't fall asleep at dinner or at the club...
Dinner was at the Hardrock Cafe in the Gaslamp District. It was a little rough in some parts, the party was 25 people, the tables got added and charged incorrectly and the drinks were watered down. We were all quite happy to get done with dinner to hit the club.
table one...the more mellow of the two
Bryan was going around to both tables taking random photos. Mind you this is the first time I'm meeting all these people...and here I steal Bryan's caption... Well Hello Sandra!
And as a birthday picture for the ages, all the women take a shot and toast to the birthday couple...
After a brief walk in the cold and the wind, the group made it to On Broadway Nightclub, where we entered VIP. We had a little cabana room with free booze, two couches to lounge on and a waitress. It was a great setup since the club was so big, if someone got lost we'd just meet back at the room. Downstairs where our room was, there was the dancing for the more R&B type, then there was another room in a vault that had more 80's type dance music, and upstairs was a huge room with a DJ spinning and mixing techno/trance and dancers on the tables. That was by far my favorite room! Since we had already drank at dinner, we made sure to take a few stiff drinks before any one else as soon as the drinks arrived in the cabana. And after that we were set to have fun for the rest of the night, not worrying about holding a drink in our hand to dance. We stayed out until about 2:00am when we finally decided that is was time to make it back to the hotel to get any sort of sleep.
the rap and R&B room
Having fun posing!
Andy, Me, Tasha and Jon in the back
birthday kids Bryan and Kath in the front
and yet another picture in the room
me, Andy, Travis, Jon and James
Tasha and Sarah
and yes, Tasha is eating a scrumptious chocolate covered strawberry...you bet I was all over those.
In the morning, it was yet another overcast day, and so we didn't end up staying very long. We were going to try to walk around SD and have lunch but by 10:00am we had already packed and gotten the car loaded to go home. Luckily we missed all the traffic and were home in an hour.
So that was the fun little excursion to San Diego. I will try to get some pictures up soon for all to see ;-)
