Have restaurant plates gotten larger? Do restaurants serve more than one person could eat in two meals? Yes and yes. Well, they can serve way more food for way more money. Neither of us can eat what they serve on one plate these days, even at breakfast. Dinner is enough for two meals while breakfast is just too much. But, we do enjoy eating out so choose breakfast at least once a week for our treat. My trick is to eat the toast and some of the rest since scrambled eggs and potatoes can be re-heated at home. Toast cannot. Well, it can, but who wants to eat re-heated toast? Other times we share an omelet and potatoes and ask for another serving of the toast. Do we take food home? Sometimes, even when we share. But, gee, we like to eat out.
Today it was at the Mission Restaurant in Pacific Beach. Marvelous food and we’ve enjoyed it every time we come to San Diego - sometimes even twice. Rosemary potatoes, rosemary bread and heavenly egg dishes. Did we take home some food? You bet, enough for another breakfast for both of us, though maybe I’ll mix in some onions and peppers for the left-overs.
But, time for our daily walk - and in San Diego we can walk along the beach. Not our first time this trip and not our last.
Could anything be better? Volleyball in full swing,
surfers out waiting for the right wave. Surfers have loads of patience, most of their time is in the water on their boards waiting and waiting. These guys are too close, I think they’re discussing.
Some actually found the right wave.
And, some didn’t.
Lots of others walking and biking. And, all of them tourists. We found a guy in a Minnesota sweatshirt who actually knew about our video store in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota and we found another guy in an Iowa Hawkeye shirt.
We also saw the whale watching boat heading out of the harbor. I hope they have a great day and see a lot.
Back to the RV where Gary started another laundry (seems that we do laundry every other day) and I tidied up the Jeep for tonight when we pick up my aunt for dinner. Gotta have a clean car for her. The car is clean, we took our showers and picked Marilyn up for dinner at the Athena, a Greek restaurant between her home in La Jolla and our RV in Pacific Beach. And a wonderful time was had by all. Seeing her is one of the best things about San Diego. And seeing my aunt Betty is one of the best things about Central California. (Hi, Betty.) And, we get to see both this year. Marilyn now and Betty as we head up California heading north.
Gary ordered the chicken kabob which comes with rice pilaf and briyani (a mixture of peppers, squash and onion in a tomato base) while I ordered the spinach, chicken and feta flatbread - hey, it’s a pizza, one of my favorites. We could have shared Gary’s meal abut as it is we have enough leftovers for another dinner. Maybe next time.
After we dropped Marilyn off at her home we continued up Mt. Soledad to view the full moon and the city lights. I hadn’t taken the tripod, not knowing that we’d be driving up here so the pictures are a bit blurry but, oh, what a beautiful sight: the city’s lights, the moon’s glow and the ocean’s darkness.
And, did I mention that we had leftovers?
‘You can’t have everything - where would you put it?’
Steven Wright
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