Sunday, March 11, 2007

San Diego, Part 1

We just returned from our latest trip, to San Diego while enjoying the company of friends Dale and Kathy. Our adventure started off on a rainy Thursday morning. We drove to the Salt Lake airport, had a fairly uneventful flight to Los Angeles. Once there, we rented our minivan and began the drive to San Diego. Along the way we stopped to take some pictures of the beautiful San Diego Temple. We then headed for our hotel, a lovely Holiday Inn Express located in Old Town, a very convenient location to Old Town and the freeway.We walked over to Old Town area, a historic district of the town, where we caught the Old Town Trolley for a city tour.The tour featured 9 different stops, including stops at the cruise ship docks where the USS Midway is docked and now a museum, the Gateway district (another historic district now home to shops and restaurants), Horton Plaza ( a beautiful outdoor shopping mall), and Coronado. We got off the trolley at the Coronado resort, walked through the gardens and down to the beach. Then, with time short, we re-joined the trolley tour and completed the rest of the tour which featured a few stops throughout Balboa Park. It was then back to Old Town, back to the hotel for a short rest, and then off to supper at the Cheesecake Factory.

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