Nati's Mexican Restaurant

Our visit to the OB tidepools had to come to an end...

After our thrift store shopping foray, I remember walking down Newport and looking left on Bacon Street. At the end of the block I saw this...

Return to the OB Tidepools Summer 2015

The sun was actually out in OB that morning. It was quite overcast when TC and I left Chula Vista that morning...

It was nice to see the sun out even for just a little bit. This is supposed to be summer in San Diego for cripe's sake...

"God, That's good!" or a meat pie by any other name...

This movie was a bit on the gruesome side and it was a bit disturbing find out later what was REALLY in those pies...

also known as the "best meat pies in London", heh heh.

Luckily these meat filled pastries that I've tried over the past few months weren't filled with murdered humans...

Wolf's Head Pub & Eatery

After hightailing it home after Sea 180 Tavern and enjoying the rainless commute, Bert and I dropped off the teen to watch a play with her friends (extra credit) and headed over to Grantville...

and endured a small bit of rain while on the 8...

Wolf's Head Pub & Eatery is kind of in a random spot on Fairmont Ave, near the Home Depot...

J & T Thai Street Food

Yesterday TC and I had the pleasure of having lunch with my good friend Cathy of mmm-yoso...

at a place she recommended and one that I was actually curious to try...

Birthday Lunch at Del Mar Rendezvous 3x, return to the Torrey Pines Glider Port and cupcakes from Sprinkles

I was liking this concept...being "off" on my birthday. It was like, as my friend TORC said, "playing hookie".

(photo from my "Return to Del Mar Rendezvous" post, April 2014)

Even though I felt a tiny twinge of guilt, I thought about it and thought, "You know, FK it! Work will be there tomorrow. I need to to do this EVERY year, %$#@"!

All American Sandwiches, Harry D'z BBQ, Karl Strauss, return to the Mariscos Gonzalez taco truck & The Buffalo Spot

All right, the only reason I posted this video is because it's from one of my favorite movies, the classic 80's flick "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"...

and that Brad's character only resorted to working at this fish and chips place after getting fired from All American Burger (he threatenedd to kick a customer's ass)...

Cafe Mingei

Bert and I were at Balboa Park this weekend for the Balboa Park Centennial 2015 Philippine American Celebration (BPC2015PAC). TC was with the troup getting ready for their performance.

We didn't have our morning coffee yet and I'd been meaning to try Cafe Mingei, new coffee place next to late artist Nikki de Saint Phalle's whimsical sculpture, Nikkigator...

Balboa Park on my birthday

Bert and I spent some time at Balboa Park before heading up to my birthday lunch destination.

The Instruments of Torture exhibit is located across from the Museum of Man. We saw this exhibit the summer I was pregnant (2000) and found it to be a bit gruesome but fascinating. We saw it once but wouldn't really care to see it again...

Instead, we wandered the park to enjoy the beautiful buildings of what is known as the Smithsonian of the West...

Return to City Tacos, Caffe Calabria and West Coast Tavern

The dance troupe had call time at the building in the late afternoon and after dropping off TC, Bert and I headed over to North Park to get some early dinner...

I found this interesting, this trolley and water tower sculpture seen on a wall as you exit the 805 offramp (coming from down south) to University Ave). Back in the pre-WWII days, a trolley line used to exist in North Park...

Lemongrass Thai Food

Now Ramona is a place we only visit once a year...

which is usually when we pass through (operative word "pass) on our way home from our Julian day trips.

We weren't sure where we were going to go...