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Nisha visits SD…

  • Feb 12, 2020Feb 12, 2020

Nice to have Nisha visit from rainy cloudy Seattle – on picking her up we took her straight to Tacos El Gordo for dinner… Next morning, following D’s “plan for the weekend” we went off-script to briefly visit the Salk institute, where a kind guard let us look around. Its a lovely building overlooking the ocean, and afterwards we had a quick stroll at the top of Blacks beach…no paragliders…

Then off to a supermarket D had heard about near Solana beach, where we got baguettes, cheese & pate, and headed off to the Encinitas Meditation Gardens, where we walked down to the beach for the first time… As they walked thru the garden, I watched the ocean and was very happy to see 2 whales blowing and diving twice – always beautiful…

The walk thru Annies canyon was great as usual, and many bird spotters were out and about, so I jogged back to grab my binocs… As we walked back down, we came across a chinese guy and his daughter using a large format Chamonix brand camera with bellows lens. Turns out he’s an artist and had stage a scene below us where he had written in chalk on various logs in different languages…’viru’, ‘el virus’ etc with an axe embedded in one log. He stripped off his top and went down to the logs, adjusted the axe and lay face down in the grass asking his daughter to take the shot!

We saw a few lovely hummingbirds and then via Torrey Pines, the Sunset Seat, Costco and Modern Times, got back home, coaxed Nisha to sit in the hot tub and had a lovely masala stuffed Branzino (black bass) dinner…

Next day it was down to Black beach for a nice stroll with the naked fat old wrinkly guys and, via gliderport and model gliders, to stinky La Jolla seals and birds… Grabbed a burger at Chicago Fire Grill and had a quick nap while they shopped the UTC mall…then to meet Lynne-with-an-e at Quigley Fine wine for a Meyer Lemon exchange, intro to her PhD friend, followed by quick visit to 3-4 different things in the city including the Cube of Silence protest in Little Italy and Mad Cat DJ back home for G&T, wine and the ladies chatted into the night with D providing lots of good aunty advice…

Sunday we had Dim Sum with Penny & Victor who hadn’t seen Nisha for 16+ years… Back home to make Meyer lemon marmalade (will use white sugar for next batch as brown sugar / maple syrup doesnt make an attractive looking product… The ladies did some Sumi-e and while I worked with Faisal they walked Balboa Park. After a quick beer tasting at Pure, we headed back for lamb-nu-saag dinner with Prashna…and ladies chatting into the night again…with lots more good advice dispensed…again….

The Irvings visit from Oz…

  • Jan 6, 2020Jan 29, 2020

Mark & Jules arrived in LA in 1 Jan, and after a quick catchup with Nesh, they came to SD a couple of day later with their lovely and very tall sons… A fun time with mama Jules clucking around her boys and their preferences, and the boys taking everything in their stride..!

Starting with a quick walk in Annies Canyon, lunch at Seasurf, walk up to Torrey Pines via the beach, we dropped bags and met Victor, Penny (and her lovely mum) followed by a visit to El Gordos where the line was longer than usual as they swapped out a 300lb adobada spool…

Next day, Cuatro Milpas was closed, so bkfast at El Carritos, visit to Cafe Moto and then off to Climbers Loop and the Old Dam in Mission Trails park, which was a beautiful walk, even appreciated by the boys. After the obligatory Costco visit, we had a great MishMash lunch and visit to local dispensary, then to the USS Midway (closed by that time). At home, we decided to have a comparative beer tasting and made a quick trip to the ‘Best Dam Beer Store’ to stock up on Americas finest for the tasting… The Aussies began to realize we were just scratching the surface of the topic, and realization dawned on Mark that some of beers we tried were actually pretty highly regarded…! My homemade Gin was a hit, and Mark & K chattered on into the night, solving all their problems, and then some…!

Sun AM involved some scootering to Cocina35 for Chilaquiles, with huge smiles on the boys (and Marks!) faces as they tried the scooters.. Lovely walk in Balboa park to the big tree, House of England and coffee… Visitors then left, relieved to get away… 🙂

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