Weekend in San Diego

A few weeks ago my sister had a medical conference in San Diego.  She lives in Pennsylvania so it only seemed fitting that that she was only going to be a short plane ride away I should fly down and join her in San Diego. My mom decided to fly in too so we turned it into a girl weekend minus my other sister.  Don't worry she is doing a semester in Germany so don't feel too bad for her.

All three of us managed to coordinate our flight so we got in within about half an hour of each other on Saturday morning. We took a taxi to our hotel and got all checked in and then headed out to spend the rest of at the San Diego Zoo.

I think this selfie as we were about to walk into the zoo was the only picture from the weekend of all  three of us together. Oh well!

We took a bus tour of the whole zoo to get an overview and see what areas we wanted to go back to and see in more detail.  It was fun but harder to see too many of the animals from the bus than we predicted.  After our bus tour we were starving so it was very much lunch time.  The food was nothing to write home about but my sister and I did have Octoberfest beers which were delicious.

Once we had food (and beer) in our stomachs we were ready to tackle the zoo on foot. Of course we saw the monkeys! We also saw the lions and tigers and bears (oh my) and pandas too.  We skipped the reptiles but make sure to stop and see the reindeer.  I didn't see Rudolph but this guy was cute too.

After the zoo we all headed back to the hotel to relax a bit before going out to dinner. My mom was tired after our day at the zoo but my sister and I headed out to the Gaslamp District to find some dinner (and a pair of pantyhose). As you can see we were successful in finding delicious food and cocktails too.  Truffle mac and cheese for me and a fancy salad for my sister!

The second day we were there my sister had to attend the residency fair at the medical conference since that was the whole reason she was there.  Mom and I decided to make it a pool day. The pool at our hotel looked out over the ocean but in order to sit in the shade sadly our backs were facing the ocean.

Even with the ocean to our back I can't say the view from our lounge chairs was bad at all.  I took full advantage of the pool day in my favorite cover up and my black one piece swimsuit.

During her conference my sister had a long lunch so since her conference was at the conference center next door to our hotel she was able to come back and join as at the pool restaurant for lunch. I took full advantage of being on vacation and enjoyed a glass of froze with lunch and then another one while I sat by the pool reading my book.

The view from our hotel room was pretty nice too!

After our day at the pool (and the medical conference) we were feeling lazy so instead of venturing out to the Gaslamp District for dinner we decided to just have dinner in the hotel bar.  We all had fancy drinks that were delicious and had a lovely time just sitting there relaxing.

I swear we didn't just have fancy drinks for dinner.  We ordered some food too for good measure. My favorite thing we ordered were these pretzels with multiple different mustards for dipping.  After dinner we went to the frozen yogurt place in the hotel for a little dessert.

The next day our flights were not until later in the day so we went to Fashion Valley to look for a suit for my sister to wear to her residency interviews. We found her a suit and a couple of blouses and because this is me we are talking about I took her right up to the Nordstrom lingerie department and got her a couple of new bras to go with her new suits. Good undergarments make any outfit look even better.

After a final lunch my mom and I headed back to the airport to fly home and my sister went back to the hotel for one final event.  It was a quick little getaway but it was so nice to get to just relax and hang out with my mom and sister.