San Diego Vacation [Part 2]

Day(2) Woke up to a peaceful non-traffic morning in Temecula, to the chirping of little birds in the air, and where you can almost "hear" the grapevines growing outside our villa. Checked into South Coast Winery Resort & Spa after lots of traffic the night before, and chilled (or rather roasted) out in the hot tub, sipping the complimentary house wine. Yes, they make their own wine here. Most of the villas face the vineyards, and all of them don't share walls, so its pretty romantic. Definitely more romantic than a fossilized museums (*Hint*Hint Husbands/Boyfriends)

Our Winetour-Bus showed up at 10.30am to pick us up, and we were off for a fun filled day of Wine Tasting in Temecula! Our itinerary included 4 wineries with 4-6 1Oz tastings at each location, with a lunch provided as well! No stress at all, with directions, and parking when you are being ferried around in style with a bunch of friendly people with you! BTW, everyone got a LOT friendlier by the last winery! Had a really nice lunch in Wilson Winery, were they also served their really awesome Almond Champagne! Bought a few bottles back, but bought them at the local drug store cheaper. Hint- Long's Drugs in town sells them at 1/3 the price at the vineyard!

Drove to San Diego from there...

Day (3) & (4) - Woke up in La Jolla, which is about 10 minutes north of Downtown San Diego. Spent the next 2 days checking out the sandy beaches in along the San Diego coastline. Tons of people surfing by the beach, weather was mild, and San Diego only gets a couple of days of rain in a year. so not much use of an umbrella over there! Visited some seals just hanging out sun-bathing at La Jolla cove, then went to see Shamu at SeaWorld!

Tons of stuff to see in SeaWorld, with live shows every 1/2 hr, we timed it just right so that we saw most of the performances by the time we left. Obviously we had to sit in the first couple of rows to get splashed by Shamu, we found out really quick the difference between getting "splashed" vs getting "soaked". I'll just say that it was pretty cold for a while out there until the sun dried us out!

Went to San Diego Zoo as well, checking out all the animals, and riding the Safari-Cable-Car like 5 times to get our money's worth. Its $3 to ride each way, but our $25 all-access tickets got us unlimited rides... So had to ride more la! Snapped a quick picture of Mei Hwa, the latest panda cub just lazing around on his tree branch... What a life, just hanging around and getting fed all day long!

Last day in San Diego what do we do? We start scrounging for Asian food to eat. After a couple of days of eating non-Asian food, our craving for Asian food finally won! It was almost like a solitary beam of light shining onto the front of Ranch 99's entrance when we pulled in the parking lot! 2 orders of duck + pork rice, and roasted intestine's later.... MHHMMM good! Its too bad we don't have Ranch 99's in KC... :(

That's about it for this Trip!