San Diego

Two weeks ago I was in San Diego. After our last week of camp we had a short break before we dove into our fall activities. Eunice's parents had paid for a hotel room in San Diego for the duration of the break as a gift to her and she invited me to join her and Steph on the trip. It was a fun getaway. We didn't see a whole lot of San Diego, but we did some shopping (there are some things that are actually cheaper to buy in the States than in Mexico...well, at Wal-Mart anyway), they got their hair done, Eunice and I got pedicures, and we relaxed. I tried "In-N-Out" for the first time there. It's a fast food hamburger chain that I had never heard of prior to our trip. It was yummy! We also went to La Jolla while there. La Jolla is an area (I'm not sure if it is actually part of San Diego or not) where they have some nice beaches and a cove. The cove was neat...definitely too many people there for my liking though. Here's Eunice and I on the stairs down into the cove.

I got to go to a Korean Mart while there (Eunice is Korean, just fyi). And I was excited to try some Korean food while there...just to find out later that what I had was actually a Korean version of a Japanese dish (kind of like how we "Americanize" food from other cultures). I was amazed at all the different kinds of food that they sell there. They even had dried fish in bags. It was...interesting. Here I am...eating at the Korean mart. :)

I did, however, get to try a real Korean dessert. I'm not quite sure what the name of it is. I don't remember. It contains ice, various kinds of fruit (strawberries, kiwi, bananas, peaches), little mini-marshmallow looking things, sweet beans and ice cream. It was an interesting combination...not something I would want all the time, but I enjoyed it. Here is one angle of it, to give you an idea of what it looked like.

We were in San Diego from Sunday (the 23rd, I think) to Wednesday. Our trip back to Ensenada consisted of riding the trolley (wow, those things get packed) to the border, walking with our bags and Korean groceries to the bus station (it was a much longer walk than we expected), and then riding a bus back to Ensenada where Greg (co-founder of Genesis) picked us up and took us to the office. It felt like a lengthy trip. Overall, we had a short, but fun vacation.