Fun Times at Coronado Beach

The day started out innocently enough. We went down to Irvine to run a few errands and get Jaime set up for her pending move back to the East Coast. Afterwards, we decided to drive another 65 miles to walk around San Diego. Web was pretty excited... we've lived in SoCal for 3 years and this was his first trip to San Diego that wasn't for business. Unfortunately, after walking around for about an hour in the Gaslamp District, he turned to me and said "is this it?"

We decided to drive over the Coronado Bay Bridge to visit the small island of Coronado, five minutes south of downtown San Diego. This was more our speed! In addition to having a very resort-like, walkable little downtown area that was clean and pretty, the pristine beaches also boasted something that Jordan was really excited about... a dog-friendly beach!

Jordan was in heaven... a huge expanse of perfect, powdery white sand beach, featuring at least 50 dogs playing in the water, chasing after soccer balls, or just layin' out to catch some rays with their owners. Of course, our "special" dog did her usual thing, hanging out by herself digging in the sand. Either way, it was a great day and we finished it off with a "splendid" meal at the Rhineceros Cafe.

Here's some pics...


Unlike the dogs in the pic above, Jordan hates the water...


She kept herself busy digging in the sand and finally got tired...

We stayed until the sun went down, with the top-rated Hotel Del Coronado in the background...