We maximized everyone's must-do list on this trip to San Diego! We went to the zoo. We ate Somali food. We toured Palomar Observatory. We had authentic Mexican food. We saw the desert and boated around the bay.
And on this day, we finished off that list with sea lions and the San Diego Padres!
We'd only packed carry-ons and so I'd dithered, as always, about bring my telephoto lens. I don't know why I dither every time, though, because every time I leave it at home I end up regretting it, and every time I bring it I end up being grateful that I did.
Such as on this trip. I would have been SO sad to see the sea lions without my telephoto lens!
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| Check out the wound on that guy's neck! It looks like something was cut away from it, like maybe fishing line or a plastic bag handle. |
You can tell that they're sea lions because they have little ears. Seals just have ear holes.
There were so many adorable babies!
We were honestly there for hours, like not even talking, just watching sea lions go about their sea lion business.
Just before we knew we absolutely had to leave to get to the San Diego Padres game on time (SOOOOOOO much traffic!), we did tear ourselves away from the sea lions to go for a tiny walk on a sea lion-free beach:
It was worth it.
We'd genuinely thought that this San Diego Padres game, the third game in as many days against the same team, mid-day on a weekday, to boot, would be lightly attended. OMG we were WRONG. It was an absolute wall of people wherever we looked! There were more people in attendance than the entire population of our town!
It was nevertheless pretty fun, though, even up there in the nosebleeds with the other plebeians:
Actually, the nosebleed seats were AWESOME. We had our own block of bathrooms up there on the top deck, and nobody was going to climb UP more ramp to go to the bathroom of all places, so every time I went it was super clean and hardly anyone was in there. There were also a bunch of food stalls, and although it wasn't the crazy fancy stuff they had in the trendier parts of the stadium, again, the lines were short and they had all the staples: beer, nachos, pretzels, and hot dogs. We had some of everything:
It was such ample deliciousness that I couldn't even finish my hot dog, and so after the game I trekked with it the billion miles back down the ramp to the ground, and then the billion miles down the sidewalk to our parking garage, and I stuck it in the trunk of our rental car while we spent the billion hours in traffic getting out of downtown and out of the city and back to our AirBnb.
And then I asked the AirBnb cat if he wanted it:
He did!
Tomorrow, we leave San Diego and head to LA... and La Brea Tar Pits!
And here's the rest of our trip!
- Day 1: Cabrillo National Monument
- Day 2: Palomar Observatory and Borrego Springs sculptures
- Day 3: San Diego Zoo
- Day 4: Maritime Museum and Somali food
- Day 5: Sea lions and San Diego Padres
- Day 6: La Brea Tar Pits and Beverly Hills
- Day 7: Aquarium of the Pacific and a DIY food tour
P.S. Want to follow along with my craft projects, books I'm reading, road trips to weird old cemeteries, looming mid-life crisis, and other various adventures on the daily? Find me on my Craft Knife Facebook page!
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