Day off together

The Family woke up bright and early and jogged over to Bruegger's Bagels.  OK, just joking about the jogging.  We ate our tasty bagels and headed off in our rental van to San Diego.  The "Great Cobb Odyssey" got discharge orders from the Honda hospital in San Diego where it got gravely ill on Tuesday.  I was filled with excitement about getting the Honda back (I like the Odyssey much more than the Sienna we rented, even with this bit of trouble it had).  Funny thing...  we discovered at the San Diego Honda dealer that we have Honda insurance (an extended warranty)!  HA!  We did not know that on the past two visits to the Temecula Honda hospital!!!  So, we should be getting mucho dinaro back.  Yeah!!!

After picking up the van, we drove down to Mexico (or as Mason pronounces it Messico).  Well, we didn't actually go into Mexico, but close enough.  We went to the San Ysidro outlet center.  The Mexican border runs right behind the outlet stores.  We went to the Stride Rite outlet.  Mason got some super cheap, but very cool reptile shoes and Miles got some not so cheap, but also very cool "Super-ball" shoes (supposed to help him jump high?).

Then we ate lunch at our favorite Mexican restaurant, Miguel's Cocina.  But not at the usual Coronado location.  We discovered they also have a Eastlake location.  Oh my, this place is sooo yummy!  The decor was cool, kind of a combination of Mexico and a village in Colorado.  Mason got to wrestle a wild pig and don't tell Dr. Mik about the lollipop!!

We also discovered that San Diego has Toll roads.  Did not know this.  We jumped on the 125 in Eastlake to head home and BAM!  There was a machine demanding we give it $2.50 NOW!  Thankfully we had the exact amount because getting change back from a 20 is not an option.  Well, the van made it home without having a cardiac arrest.  Hopefully this is the last if this problem.

After getting home we took the boys and Hula to the "green park" and marveled at all the foreclosed homes.  One little street we drove down had 8 houses for sale!  A very strange sight.

Now Erick and I are relaxing with a little "Iron and Wine" and tapping on our keyboards.  And this has been our day, and I am sure this was not nearly as interesting to you as it was to us :-)