UTC + La Colombe Coffee Roasters + Sprinkles, lunch @ The Purple Mint & The Cupcake Store

Both of us hadn't been to UTC in years...

There is all kinds of new construction going on. I didn't realize the mall was undergoing a major overhaul...

Bart, a sorpresa, more yarnbombs at BGCB, and baklava cake from Donut Panic

[Update - Broke Girls Coffee Bar closed May 2015 and is now Backyard Cafe]

From City Farmers Nursery, we drove up the hill and turned on Fairmont Ave...

before taking the "scenic" route through El Cajon Blvd. to get to Normal Heights to our favorite bookstore...

Babycakes Bake Shop, Imperial Beach

The other week, I saw that there was a new Babycakes bakery right across from the new Coronado Brewing Company..

Since we didn't go, I thought Bert and I could give it a try for our mini crawl...

The Not Glendora foodcrawl - Stop 1: Donut Panic

Cathy and I originally planned to drive up to Glendora this Saturday for peach donuts. She ended up going on Thursday and brought me home a box. The weekend traffic would have been quite craptastic plus it's over 80+ degress back east as well! So...in lieu of the Glendora trip, we did a local version.

Our first stop was Donut Panic over in Grantville, where we saw that they now added a club chair and a corner seating arrangement next to the record player...

The Big One Three for TC

The day has arrived...

TC has passed from Tweendom to being an official Teenager...

A motley assortment of pix...

Somewere in Costa Mesa...

This donut place also sold "the best sandwiches in the world"....really?

I like taking photos when I'm not driving. In this case, Cathy was driving...

Kiwanis Club of Chula Vista 12th Annual Wine Tasting Social

Last week, I attended this event...

Roped and cajoled into going by my gym gal pals, they promised it would be a fun event. Anti-social me contemplated the idea of just donating my money towards the price of the ticket but not actually going, but their cow-eyed pleas and incessant begging won me over...