Stay classy San Diego!

After an early morning jog around the block in the outskirts of Santa Monica, we coffee'd up and hit the road again, en route to San Diego. We drove through Newport beach, hoping to catch a glimpse of something recognisable from the OC! Sadly, I didn't run into Marissa or get swept off my feet by Seth Cohen and he sadly didn't show me the boat he had named after me, but we did enjoy wandering through the quaint little town and then the cruise down to the coastal road past all the huge houses of the Orange County!

We were then off to Legoland where we were bedazzled by some pretty amazing sculptures, from dragons to giraffes, scenes from each of the Star Wars films and a mini USA (whe we caught a first glimpse of our Vegas hotel!) We met Darth Vadar who took a liking to me and tried to take out Rhys and took a boat ride where we saw the Taj Mahal, Sydney opera house and the faces of Mout Rushmore! The highlight of the day would probably have to be our ride on the castle roller coaster. The ride was designed for 5 year olds as there was no height restrictions (and it was pretty tame) but it was the two Asian's riding in front of us that really made the day. As soon as the carts started moving they closed their eyes, tucked their heads between their knees and screamed like little girls! This went on for the whole ride and was perfectly captured on the 2 'scream shot' photos taken during the ride! We left Legoland once again feeling like little kids but also feeling that our nerdy engineering sides had been fulfilled for the day!

There were still a few hours left in the day so we headed down to the San Diego harbour for a harbour cruise! Neither of us realised that San Diego was such a navy town until we saw the size of the air craft carrier ship docked at the main jetty that had been turned into a museum. The cruise ship took us, while surrouded by an uncomfortable number of pushy 'tourists', down the river, under a pretty cool bridge and down to the naval base where all the navy ships were docked either to be fixed or to be restocked. The area was huge and it gave us an insight into life out at sea.. There was even a soldier standing at the bak of each ship with a big gun warding off any trespasser! 

We were then off to our hotel, outside downtown san diego to relax and search for some Mexican! Margaritas were to be on the menu so neither of we're keen to drive anywhere so we walked down the road and luckily one of the neighbouring hotels had a Mexican restaurant! Free corn chips turned out to be a easy way to get us to eat too much, but the fajitas were amazing and the frozen margaritas equally as good so we thought we'd done well!

The following day was a little more low key as we checked out a winery and went for a nice drive around the neighbouring wine regions. More Mexican was to be on the menu and this tie we went down to Old Town for some giant margaritas and more amazing Mexican food! We probably could've almost drowned in the glasses they were so big!! Another night of great food and drinks and a nice end to our full on south east Californian visit!