More of San Diego

I’m so far behind on my posts. Here’s some more San Diego pictures from over a month ago. I’ve need to just plow through last month’s events because now I’ve got June stuff to write about. We’ve been doing a lot!

Here’s John and Biska at sunset in San Diego. That dog is getting almost too big to be carried around. She’s 25 pounds now, and we think she’s about done growing. She’s long, so she looks bigger than 25 pounds.

I took far too many pictures of the sunset. I love the sunset over the ocean.

One morning we went to the Safari Park outside of Escondido.

John really likes that park. I was grumpy because it was colder than I expected that far inland. I wanted a hot coffee, so we went to the unbranded coffee shop in the park. There was only one barista that early in the morning and she didn’t even know how to make hot coffee – only iced. I did not want iced coffee – I was freezing. She couldn’t make most of what was on the menu and refused to take instructions.

I ended up with a lukewarm “coffee” that tasted like the chocolate milk that we used to get in little cartons in the lunchroom when we were kids. The only possible value there would be for nostalgia; but not in my case.

John kept trying to take my picture but all he was getting was scowls. He was failing to coax a smile out of me. Eventually he tricked me into laughing. I look like I was having a great time!

Later we went on an afternoon walk around a reservoir northeast of San Diego. I had been there before with my brother and knew it was a nice walk. The fog finally burned off that afternoon, plus we were some distance from the ocean. I was finally warm enough.

Here we are at a neighborhood park near the lake.

We found some excellent Thai food in the suburbs.

There’s nothing like a cloudless sky to improve my mood. Ocean and lakes and good food – at moments like this I’m like wow, we could have moved here! But houses in this region start at about a million and a half, and go up from there. Plus I spent most of that trip cold. I think we’re a much better fit for Tucson, even though there’s no ocean.

Heading down to say good-bye to the beach on our last morning.