Another Day By the Water

Alright, so we made it down to San Diego (Carlsbad) safely yesterday evening.  Before we left Bakersfield, Joanne gave us our presents from her China trip, BEAUTIFUL handmade silk scarves.  They are so colorful and who doesn't love a good scarf.  The trip down to So Cal was much more eventful than the trip to Bakersfield!  The GPS is now Kristi's sworn enemy.  We stopped in the L.A. area to pick up a friend of Joanne's mom.  We ended up in a bit of a ghetto, although we got fresh mangos off the side of the road.  They were yummy!  Its ok.  Just a slight detour.  We made it to the right spot eventually, though Slauson Road will forever be burned in our memories.  After a so-so lunch at Denny's, where my sandwich tasted like it was grilled in maple syrup, we headed on down to the beautiful seaside.  Oops.  We went to the wrong hotel.  This was not technically anyone's fault.  The number for the hotel actually covers TWO hotels...so they gave us the wrong address.  I will have to say that Kristi gets the award for driver of the year.

We arrived at the Seapointe Resort just in time to unload our mountain of luggage (six ladies, its necessary) and to head down to a brief champagne reception.  It is really pretty down here and the condo rooms are very nice.  Our room has metal seals posed on the lawn just outside our slider!  You'll see the pics.  We spent the evening unwinding in the hot tub with our CUPS of wine.  We like to go big, so we splurged on a couple of cases of Two Buck Chuck...who doesn't enjoy a $1.99 bottle of wine :)  Believably, we crammed all six of us into a one bedroom condo for the night.

This morning we got up and headed out to the complimentary breakfast.  How can you go wrong with free eggs, biscuits and gravy, and sausage!  It was delicious and the hotel had a raffle for all the guests staying here this week.  Kristi won two tickets to an aquarium in La Jolla!  Side note, JoJo already scored free tickets to the aquarium at Legoland, which we are probably going to enjoy tomorrow since the weather forecast predicts rain for us :(  JoJo kindly donated two of those tickets to the raffle for others to enjoy.  The hotel has quite a bit of activities planned for the guests, including sailing, pizza bingo (woot), a scavenger hunt, metal drum lessons (not to be missed), and Mary Kay makeovers, among other things.  What are we going to do with ourselves!  Lol.

We also found out that we get to upgrade to a two bedroom condo!  Score!  Though we will only be staying here until Wednesday, it is still exciting to have more room.  And the hotel staff is going to move all of our stuff for us.  And yes, the upgrade was FREE.  I am dubbing today Free Day.  Its a bit cloudy and chilly outside today, so we arent sure what we want to do (definitely a trip down to the beach for me).  We'll see how the day goes.

PS, it turns out they have wireless internet here.  Sweet!