Los Angeles Day 10: San Diego

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We did not have any predefined plan on what we were going to do while we were in San Diego. Since there was a triathlon scheduled to use the road in front of the hotel in the morning (until 0930), we decided to sleep in. We still slept in a little later than that. Our check out time was 1100 and we got pretty close.

Having brunch at Solunto Restaurant & Bakery.
We drove down to Little Italy to find something to eat for brunch. After walking around a bit, we stopped at Solunto Restaurant & Bakery where we had some of their yummy breakfast fare and pastries. We then walked down to the Waterfront Park where the kids ran wild on the playground. The sun was out so it had warmed up quite a bit since the morning (and previous day) so I tried to hide in the shade as much as possible. The playground was not too busy, but there was some sort of yoga event taking place on the other side of the pond so we wandered through marveling at the number of people and their yoga mats that were laid out on the lawn.

We continued walking down Harbor Drive until we reached the Seaport Village where we explored a bit before heading back to the car. By this time, we were all pretty tired and hopped on the Sycuan Green Line which was the San Diego Trolley. It was about the same size as our new street cars, but they do run on dedicated tracks.

Embarcadero Marina Park North.

We grabbed a quick bite from In-N-Out burger before heading back to Los Angeles where we had Izakaya with both William and Henry's families for one final family meal. William was going on a business trip on Tuesday morning so we would not see him again as we were staying out late on Monday night.

Final family dinner at some Izakaya restaurant.
The kids wanted to play with Elsy, but in a "playing with a cute doll" kind of way so Elsy was not into that at all and constantly tried to run away from them.


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