LA Weekend Getaway - San Diego!

One thing that I was most excited about when I decided to head down to LA for law school was the fact that I was going to be able to explore not just LA but all of Southern California! Before moving here last August, I had only been to LA a handful of times. Twice to visit Disneyland (which is not LA but Anaheim), once to Long Beach before my family departed on a Mexican cruise, and once to visit UCLA Law and see one of my best friends who attended UCLA for undergrad.

Naturally being the type-A person that I am, I created a list of all the places in Southern California that I wanted to visit. First on my list...San Diego! I had actually been to San Diego once before when I was looking at undergrad colleges with my mom. We started in San Francisco drove all the way down to San Diego to visit USD. However, we only stayed in San Diego for maybe 2 nights and didn't explore much because we were exhausted.

This June, it was the boyfriend and I's 5 (!!) year anniversary. We decided to celebrate with a weekend trip to San Diego. Since June, I have actually been to San Diego 2 more times (once to visit my best friend who was visiting San Diego and then this past weekend for the Seahawks v. Chargers game). I thought I would share with you my favorite parts!

For our anniversary trip, we got a cheap last-minute hotel deal at a 4 star hotel in the heart of the Gas Lamp district, which was perfect because we were around all the bars and yummy places to eat.

Our first stop - San Diego Zoo! We did the zoo in a few hours (my advice = get there right when it opens and avoid the crowds!) We still had to wait 30 minutes to see the pandas.

Fav part = being able to walk around w/ beer 

The waterfront - walking along the waterfront downtown was so much fun. You can go onto the aircraft carrier (we didn't do it, but we both said we would do it next time), people watch, or continue south and run into a little village of shops (and ice cream) right on the water.

Our celebratory 5 year picture

Pacific Beach - when I visited my friends, we stayed in Pacific Beach. It was so much fun! The water was noticeably warmer than the beaches in Los Angeles (at least I thought so) and there was so much to do! We had yummy acai bowls for breakfast.

Qualcomm Stadium - this probably doesn't deserve mentioning because the stadium was pretttttty ugly, but B and I went this weekend for the Seahawks v. Chargers game. Tailgating was SO much fun. Honestly I'm pretty sure there were more hawks fans around than chargers fans. Once we got into the game, things went downhill. It was so hot in the stands (98 degrees), which meant it was 112+ on the field for the players, so I can only imagine what it was like playing in that heat. Therefore, I'm not too mad at them for losing.

But Seahawks loss and all, San Diego is still one of my favorite places!