Friday

Melissa drove Kaela to school, in Santa Ana, and we moosied down to Downtown Laguna and she brought Edgar and we had a nice walk on the beach.  After Labor Day you can have dog off leash, but not yet.  It was not too crowded yet.  We had to be off the beach by 9 am.

Came back to her house and ate some breakfast.  Left over hamburger, etc.  We started driving down towards San Diego.  We stopped all along the way to look around, mostly the coast route.  We went on the beach at Del Mar.  Then we tried to find a hotel.

We also had lunch at the Fish House in Encinitas.  I spent around an hour looking for a hotel, everything was so expensive and the Motel 6 review was terrible.  So KR said let's just drive around and see if we can find a hotel.

I didn't think we could.

Well, I had no faith.

Right across the 5 freeway, off of Birmingham Road we found a Holiday Inn Express that was undergoing some severe renovation, and the room was 100 dollars a night !!!  Dog included.  What a bargain, PLUS full breakfast !!!!!!

We stayed TWO nights.

For dinner, we went to Fidel's, this place that KR used to go when he was at UC San Diego, Mexican to go, and ate in the room.  Half a Tostada Supreme.  I was not too hungry, only had a bite and some cup a soup.  The room was really comfortable, two queen beds.

Gracie was so so so tired.