We drove out to San Diego on Saturday with Danielle and Nick. We arrived at about 1:30pm to find our rooms weren't ready at the hotel. We met up with Jill and Blaine and wasted time at a Denny's until the rooms were ready.
Jill and I headed out to a yarn store in La Jolla appropriately named "Knitting in La Jolla". It was a very overwhelming experience. Lots and lots of yarn (really nice ones), but it looked like a yarn monster threw up inside the store. It was really hard to find anything. I wanted to get something that none of the LYS (local yarn stores) at home carry. I managed to find some handpainted Jitterbug sock yarn to make Sammy a pair of socks. I am really into making socks right now, since I finally get it... I also got some Berroco Yarn "lustra". I am hoping to make a sweater for myself out of this yarn... I bought about 1400 yards. The Berroco is awesome - it's made out of 50% wool and 50% tencel. Click here for more about tencel. It's very, very shiny and pretty. I got a silvery color. Blaine and Ben drank beer and hoped that we would hurry up. Jill got some really pretty lace-weight yarn that she is going to make socks with.
We met up with Danielle & Nick on Pacific Beach, but we weren't really dressed for it.
Jill & Blaine-
Nick & Danielle-
Danielle grabbing Ben's "boobies"
We headed over to some pub that had lousy service were I discovered (much to my dismay) that they use clam juice for their bloody mary's - yuck! We got to see the sunset from the beach, which is always nice.
Sunday - Nick and Danielle went to Tijuana, Jill and Blaine went to the Wild Animal Park and Jodie & Ben stayed in bed. Seriously, we stayed in bed until 12pm and then went to a taco shop up the street for juevos rancheros. Ben and I hung by the pool afterwards and I resumed by sock knitting, which I am totally into.
When everyone got back, we headed out to Pacific Beach again and did some boogie boarding. Jill, Blaine, Ben and I had never been on a boogie board before. Jill and Blaine were totally into it. It was fun, but it would have been much easier without so much kelp. The kelp totally took Danielle down at one point.
After the beach, we headed out to a sushi restaurant, which I thought was very good and cheap. I ordered a ton of "veggie" sushi and it was super delicious. Danielle is not really a sushi fan (if I had to eat fish, I would be right there with her) and ordered a plate of chicken, which came on this strange cow dish. She kept saying it looked like "cow guts" and was super unappealing.
We drove out with Nick & Danielle Monday morning and Danielle read this mermaid book to me out loud while I knit in the car and finished the sock I had started Thursday night for my boss. Before going home. We stopped at our friends' home for a Labor Day BBQ. We were grateful to spend so much time with friends.
