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...

Record Store Day crawl finds...

Back to Record Store Day, which was April 20th this year.  I had a fun time checking out different record stores with Cy. The San Diego Record Show was also a very cool event that I'm glad we checked out...

Hopefully, I can catch the event again next year and bring Bert and TC with me.

Here's a roundup of the stuff I picked up that day...

Indulge Gourmet

[As of Summer 2014, the space for Indulge is now empty]

This post is nearly a couple of months late. During spring break, I took TC and her friend out and one of the places we stopped by was this little enclave of shops on Ray Street in North Park.

It's near these murals and I was interested in checking out this tiny shop...

Sherman's Shack

UPDATE - This place is now CLOSED as of 9/2014.

Last weekend we wanted to try something new...

I remembered a place I'd read about from one of Mary's old posts (well, not that old). It was a place that offered stuffed burgers. That was all it took for Bert to agree to check it out...

Last Stop - Sugar & Scribe

So this was it, the last place we stopped at during our Record Store Day crawl, the cute Irish bakery, Sugar & Scribe...

It was so convenient having everything right next door to each other...

The Asian Cultural Festival

As mentioned earlier, we wanted to see the Asian Cultural Festival at the NTC Park in Liberty Station. May is Asian Pacific Heritage Month. Apparently, this is the fourth year of this festival, but the first time I've ever heard of it.

Since we didn't walk in the right direction and didn't feel like looking for it earlier (the food won out, ha ha), we kind of put it on the back burner while we enjoyed our day with lunch (except for the pizza), dessert and even more dessert! Kirbie went back home while I drove down the street to see if I could find this festival, which I did. It was near these Gun Platforms...

which used to be on an old battleship, but are now displayed at the park...

Cow Records - Pacific Beach

Right after Thrift Trader, we walked the few steps over to Cow Records next door.

This is the other location of Cow, which has another store in OB on Newport Ave. I'd always been curious about this place so it was only right that we visit Cow during our Record Store Day Crawl...

Canada Day 7: Levis - Breakfast at Chez Cora

So far, our week in Canada had been quite fun, traveling via minivan with my friend C and her family.  After last night's awesome dinner at Le Cochon Dingue, we crashed for the night at a local hotel in Levis. We then met up with C's blogfriend, NM and her youngest for breakfast at a popular breakfast chain, Chez Cora.

This was just down the road from our hotel and while it was a bit overcast in the morning, it would soon burn off and turn into a scorching hot day...

But first, let's have some breakfast, shall we?

Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe

When I asked Kirbie if they had desserts over across the street at Con Pane, she said, they did, along with bread, of course...

Our two little chocolates weren't going to be enough for us, so a short walk across the street was in order...

Return to Chi Chocolate

Barracks 19 was just a few buildings down from that Italian restaurant that serves hair on their pizza (as well as BURNT RIBS, per Mary's experience)...

It's right across the street from a bakery as well as around the corner from Slater's 50/50.

Both Kirbie and I had been to Chi Chocolate before, but were excited to go again to try something new...

Papa Luna's, Thrift Trader and Gay Slang

After our foray in Groovy Records where we found some good deals, we thought we would TRY to check out M-Theory in Mission Hills. As we approached  the record store located on Washington St., we saw a longass line that snaked out the door and spilled onto the sidewalk and beyond. We were like, "Uh....NO!". There was no way we were going to deal with that, so luckily, that meant it was time to have a break for actual sustenance since our sugar high from the donuts had already worn off.

Which led us to PB on a weekend. But I have a secret for ya'...instead of trying to find parking on Garnet on a Saturday, drive around the back alley and find the small lot behind Sugar & Scribe Bakery. Free parking!

I figured this would be a good place to stop...

since it was literally next to three other places I wanted us to hit up...