family love

This past weekend I had the pleasure to host my parents visit to San Diego. They arrived Friday mid-morning and our first stop was no other than the famous Hash House restruant for brunch where Pati and baby Isaiah joined us. My mom had fun oooing, ahhing and playing with the well mannered, smily baby. After stuffing our faces we needed to get a little exercise so we headed up to La Jolla for some kayaking. The kayak tour took us to see leapord sharks about 4-6 feet long (with no teeth, thank goodness), Dr. Susses house, the Seven caves, seal lions and the kelp forest. We had lots of fun learning about the history of La Jolla and kayaking around on such a beautiful day (85 deg in November!). After cleaning up we headed to Del Mar to watch the scenery, have a drink and then get dinner at another one of my favorites, Jakes. From there we watched the most beautiful sunset and had a fabulous dinner.

Saturday we woke up early and decided to hike Cowles Mountain.

It was a very popular spot on another one of these rare November goregous days! From the top we could see Mexico, Coronado Island, downtown San Diego, Point Loma and much more; it was a beautiful 360 deg view of San Diego!

Looking toward downtown San Diego

Mom and Dad at the very tip top, 360 deg view

Mom and I at the top!

Dad and I at the top!

After showering we headed to Coronado Island were we walked the "boardwalk" along the beach on the west end leading up to the Hotel Del Coronado.

Picture of beach side of Hotel Del Coronado (from a previous visit)

View of beach looking toward Point Loma (from a previous visit)

There we shopped, explored and had lunch. We explored a little more of the islands history at the Coronado museum and some then the "downtown" area and then oooed and ahhed over some of the beautiful homes on the island. Quite exahausted after a packed weekend we stayed home to watch the Arizona vs Stanford football game, which didn't end in my favor :(

Sunday morning we took my Balboa park loop walk and then went to the Hillcrest farmer's market for a crepe. Soon after that it was time for me to take my parents to the airport. I was so happy to have them visit and thankful for all we got to do while they were in town and the beautiful weather we had!