SAN DIEGO

Last Sunday Payam and I decided to go to San Diego. Originally, we had planned to spend the whole weekend there at a beachfront resort and go to Sea World on Sunday. But as the weekend approached, our plans were quickly ruined as the impending rain made getting a hotel a waste of money and other bills made Sea World a bad choice. But we headed down to see what San Diego offered for a days entertainment.

Now, I've been to San Diego a million times. Never really liked anything there except Old Town. But since I'm an old fart now, I figured maybe it would amuse me. Not so. If my friend Chuki who lives near San Diego hadn't joined us, I think we would have been bored early in the day and headed home. But having her there made it fun and we found some things to entertain us.

First place we went was the Carlsbad Flower Fields, which if you've never been, you've missed out. For those of us who live in Los Angeles and barely see anything besides smog and cars, this larger than life flower field is quite amazing and refreshing.

The picture above really doesn't do it justice, it is so much larger than I captured in the picture. Anyways for $8 you can come in and enjoy the flowers as well as the carnival food and the playground (if you have kids). At the end of the field you can sneak in and take some pics amongst the flowers:


The flower fields also serve as organic strawberry fields and outside you can get a fresh strawberry shortcake!!
Afterwards we headed to Old Town, where I forgot to take any pictures and had large margaritas and listened to some live music.

Overall it was a fun day and nice to get out of Los Angeles and see some natural beauty.