San Diego was great!

We had a good time in San Diego. They put us up in a very nice area of town called the Gaslamp district, which had restaurants and shops all around. We spent 4 nights in the Hilton Gaslamp which was a very nice hotel.

When we checked in, we were given breakfast coupons for our entire stay. I looked at the tickets a little closer later and realized these were for Netjet pilots. Netjet's is a popular airline which is very similar to ours but is based in the states. They obviously have a big agreement with this Hilton to give their pilots free breakfasts. Well, I wasn't going to say anything because each breakfast would have been around $25! It was good eating!

The food all around town was great. We didn't have one bad meal. We had Mexican food twice and it was great both times. We also ate Thai, and it was the best Thai I've ever had! The whole trip I was either hungry or stuffed to the max. We ate way too much, but it was just all so good!

The shops were neat to see, but probably the highlight of our trip was going to check out the USS Midway which is anchored permanently right there in the San Diego harbor. They've turned it into a great museum piece with lots of history. You get a headphone set and can punch in numbers as you approach various parts of the ship and hear audio commentaries about what you're seeing. Overall it was a great way to spend a few hours. I highly recommend that anyone visiting the area should check it out.

I ended up actually buying some cheap cheap beer while I was there too. I'm not a fan of American beers, but there is one that I'm quite fond of. Coors Original. Not the Coors light you're used to seeing, but the very very rare relative.. which I've only found in select US cities. So I picked up a 30 pack which ended up costing the equivalent of $0.60 per can. :) I also grabbed a couple of packs of the Starbucks Doubleshot drink which is not available in Canada. So essentially my shopping consisted of buying and stocking up on items that are too rare or contraband within Canada. Haha. Here is a pic I took of my loot.



After our great stay in San Diego it was off to Cabo San Lucas to do a pickup to return some folks to Calgary. Some of you may recall that it was about this time last year when I had my week long layover/vacation in Cabo. Ahh memories. Well, this time would only be for an hour or so. It was nice and warm and beautiful there, and I wish we could have stayed, but we had to head back. It was a 4hr and 20min flight direct back to Calgary. Which was nicer than the 7.5hr trip flying with my old plane.

Here is a photo album of some shots from the USS Midway and also some snaps from our flight from San Diego, down the Baja peninsula to Cabo San Lucas Mexico.

San Diego