(January 2nd) Today we slept in pretty late. We left hotel around 11:30. Took the train to Little Italy. Little Italy is a district in San Diego full of Italian restaurants and shops.
Went to the farmers market. The farmers market was located in Little Italy and it's a few blocks long. Had some really cool booths of food to sample and buy. The farmers market is on a road that runs towards the Ocean. It's on slight hill so you are able to look down towards the bay. It was really cool looking and beautiful. The sun was really hot and bright. Very nice weather. I loved it. We both did.
Enoch bought some blood oranges for Enoch. They were really sweet and sour. The insides are red. Enoch was so excited.
I bought this thick Head band that knitted and goes around your whole head on top of your hair. It looks like a hat. I love it and it looks great with my short hair. I am excited. Enoch had a tomalee. I never tried it but he liked it.
We then walked to a little Italian restaurant called Mona Lisa. I didn't want much so we shared a large Cesar salad. It was good and wow was it large. My favorite part of it was the bread and butter. It was a hard crusted banquette and soft inside.
After lunch and miles of walking we went back to our hotel to pack stuff up to go to the temple and the beach. We drove to Del Mar beach to watch the sunset. Aunt Elaine said that that was their favorite beach. On our way to the beach we were on the phone with Chuck asking for him to look up the address of the temple so we could find it after the beach and just as we went around the corner on the freeway there it was. What a pretty temple.
Our drive to Del Mar went good other than there is no parking anywhere. We drove around forever trying to find parking. We also were trying to find some wireless connection to use our internet. Our hotel we thought charged $10 a day to use the internet. This is another story though for later. We gave up on the internet and found parking. It is a really pretty beach. I am sure that it is even nicer in the summer months. We walked around for a bit, put our feet in the water (the water in San Diego is about as warm as the water is in Oregon in the summer, I think that it is even warmer in San Diego) and then watched the sunset. We also enjoyed watching the surfers. It was fun to watch the waves coming up behind them and watching them catch them. The sunset was really pretty until right as it was about to go down past the water on the horizon a cloud came over the sun. We were pretty disappointed. I got some nice pictures though.
After the beach we drove to La Jolla and ate at this awesome restaurant downtown. It was called the Crab Catcher. It was beautiful. We ate outside. All the restaurant have gas heaters outside so as long as it isn't raining you can eat outside and be warm. Crab at the restaurant that came from the boats off of the show the Deadliest catch were $65 a pound. When the waiter told us that I wanted to pipe up and say we really didn't like those boats from the show, we liked other ones so we weren't getting the crab. I re-framed though from saying that. I got some clam chowder which was amazing. Way better than Moe's. I didn't like Moe's in Oregon. I have decided that you can put up any sign out being world famous and people will show up. Enoch and I then shared this dinner that came with scallops, flaming Mignon and chicken. It came out looking like it was made on iron chef. It was also absolutely amazing. Enoch I think that after he ate it didn't mind spending what we did on the meal.
After dinner we rushed to the temple. We didn't make it to the last session but they let us in to do initiatory. We both did 5 names each. We then were given temple whites and were given a tour of the temple. Everybody in the temple was so nice. We spent about an hour looking at everything. The temple has this amazing grand staircase that you walk up and down to get to the celestial room and sealing rooms. The guy giving us the tour had come home from his mission in the last couple of years. Enoch and him served in the same mission. Enoch enjoyed talking to him about how the mission had changed over the years. The Celestial room is very beautiful. It has a staircase that you go up and then out a door to the atrium and the sealing rooms. The room where the atrium has the sealing rooms all around it and then in the middle is the atrium. The atrium has glass all around it and growing inside and open to the outside is plants. It is really cool. The temple was amazing but I think that my favorite was the grand staircase. So cool.
After we left the temple it was past 10 o'clock. We hung out for a while taking pictures and then drove back to our hotel. It is amazing how tired you are after all that walking. We tried to watch a movie in our hotel room but Enoch fell asleep in 5 minutes and I watched most of it before I did.
I loved our day. I love San Diego so much. I loved just seeing things and hanging out with Enoch.
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