Sur Coffee, San Clemente

A few days ago Bert had the day off...

so we embarked on a short trip up north...

Rapport Coffee

It was the day before my birthday and both Bert and TC were off from work and school...

That meant weekend road trip to celebrate a milestone birthday for yours truly...

Pre-Birthday Highlights

I know it's been a while since I blogged but we were in the midst of a remodel.

Through the magic of backdating (this is really 5/16 folks...), I will be posting highlights from my milestone birthday last month...

(passing by the deactivated San Onofre nuclear power plant, but I just call it the "tits")

in which Bert, myself and TC took a Friday off to spend a 3-day weekend in the OC and LA...

San Clemente - The pier and Beach Ice Cream

Before heading home, we stopped by the seaside town of San Clemente...

which TC reminded me was the home of skater Ryan Sheckler (he played a hockey player in the abominable movie "The Tooth Fairy" which also starred The Rock; why did I even waste my time watching that....ha ha)...

Plus, they do have a really pretty pier...

Mongkut Thai

This is whwer we ended up having lunch...Mongkut Thai.

Our lunch was rather late, nearing 2 pm. All of our window shopping and browsing through the thrift stores made us pretty hungry.

San Clemente

The same weekend of our anniversary was also July 4th weekend. After our excitement over the breads at 85C Bakery in Irvine and Cream Pan in Tustin, Bert and I headed back to his bro's house in Aliso Viejo. Bert and his brother were planning to take the kids out for some bowling (which turned out to be swimming instead). My SIL had plans to take me to San Clemente just a few miles south of their place. This is one of those cities that we drive past everytime we go up north to their place or to L.A. but we've never taken the time to actually check out the city...

She wanted to show me some of their antique shops on one of the main drags. Apparently there were A SHIT TON of antique/thrift/consignment stores concentrated in San Clemente.