Cabrillo National Monument

This past Sunday, I got to use the Garmin Nuvi GPS that my parents got me for Christmas and it easily guided me to the Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego. The monument is part of a large park and I went there because I read that it was a good place for whale watching, specifically in mid-January. By the time I arrived, I got so distracted by the beautiful scenery that I forgot about looking for whales.



The view of downtown San Diego.


I overheard someone say that you could see Mexico on the right.






The Coronado bridge.


The Cabrillo Monument.




















By the end of my visit, I finally decided to look for whales. As I looked for the whales, the battery in my camera died. I totally thought this was a whale tail, until I got home and zoomed in on my computer and found out it was a surfer. I may try to go back next weekend to see if I can find the whales.


Thanks for the GPS, Mom and Dad! It's Awesome!

Saty tuned next week...I am hopefully going to Palomar Mountain and Observatory.

Thanksgiving 2009

So it may be 2010, but I'm gonna blog like it's 1999, 2009. Thanksgiving 2009, to be exact. I went to visit my friend DJ who lives outside San Francisco for turkey day this last year. DJ's husband had to work Thanksgiving Day, so she and I spent the day on fun cooking projects.

We made pasta from scratch which neither of us had done before.


The pasta cutter machine.



DJ made the sauce from scratch before I got to town. It was yummy!


We also made two loaves of bread from scratch: one plain and one cinnamon.





Cinnamon Bread :)




The next day we went wine tasting at a couple of vineyards. It was a good day for wine tasting, but not a good day for siteseeing because it was cold, foggy, and raining.










On Saturday we walked around Palo Alto.




DJ made this pizza dough from scratch too. Sausage + Spinach +Pizza= Awesome.


Thanks for your generous hospitality DJ and Steve!!!

Stay tuned later this week as I get back into 2010 with a new post about my visit to Cabrillo National Monument.