I am spending approximately thirty-six of the approximately 240 hours we have been in the California area in San Diego, crammed into a hotel room with my parents. We are here visiting my twin, the Undercover Brother. I barely slept a wink last night: mom has a cold and cough, poor thing, and dad makes all manner of sleeping noises (snoring, sighing, etc.) Nevertheless, when I awoke to an 80 degree December morning, I felt like I awoke in heaven. I pulled back the blinds and saw this.
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We had a leisurely breakfast, then packed into the car and got hopelessly, happily lost in the
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Gaslamp on the way to this. That's the view of the beach from the historic Hotel Del Coronado, where
Some Like It Hot was filmed.
Here's a view of the
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hotel from the beach.
Christmas Eve certainly is different here on the
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west coast. But people still seem excited about doing Christmas-y things, like ice-skating. Only here, they can do that in shorts.
At sunset, we went to the Juan Cabrillo monument, where I captured this picture of the ever
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elusive Undercover Brother.
And this is how we ended our nearly perfect, totally relaxing afternoon.
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Feliz Navidad from California!
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