Things I Want to do in San Diego

Sometimes, especially when one lives in a city that is a tourist destination, it's easy to forget about all the fun things to do right in our own backyards.

I'm adding to my Bucket List, things I want to do/see/try locally
It's ever changing, but here is where I'm at right now
(note items crossed out were accomplished after this was first written)

Food & drink stuff:
Have a Mai Tai at the Bali Hai (tour?)
Have breakfast at Hash House a-Go-Go
Gotta try Richard Walker's Pancake House
Eat pommes frites at Cafe Chloe
Have cocktails at least one of the rooftop hotel bars
Check out The Studio Diner
Go back to Lahaina and hang out for an afternoon
Have an artichoke sandwich at The Roxy

Sports stuff: (me? yeah, sometimes)
Learn to snowboard on the magic carpet in Encinitas
Swim the La Jolla roughwater event, even though (actually because) I am petrified of swimming in the ocean

Places:
See a movie at La Paloma
Check out El Plantio Nursery in Escondido
Go on the photo caravan at the Wild Animal Park
Go back to Cinema Under the Stars and blog about it
Tour the US Grant Hotel
Tour Fort Rosecrans
Tour the Marsten House
Tour the Villa Montezuma
walk the pedestrian bridge in Hillcrest
walk the suspension bridge in Hillcrest
walk the Vermont Street bridge

Events:
go to the drive-in again
see the flowers bloom in Borrego
attend the annual Mother Goose Parade
attend the annual Big Bay Balloon Parade
Make Tiki Oasis an annual "to do" (I have my tickets for next month!)

Do you have a list of "to do's" where you live?

An evening at the theatre

My mom and I love seeing live theatre.
Tonight we went to the Old Globe in Balboa Park, and saw "Sammy", about the life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
We both thoroughly enjoyed it.

Coincidentally, of all the people in San Diego, my seat happened to be next to Liz--the main reference librarian at the La Mesa Library (where my knitting club meets).
She's such a nice woman, and it was a fun small world moment.

I feel like bringing out all my Rat Pack cd's, and dancing.
I can hear my dad's beautiful voice singing, "What kind of fool am I..."
Time passes so quickly, but every once in awhile there are pockets of magic.

Temecula Quilt Show

(click on images to enlarge. Flickr doesn't translate well with horizontals on blogger)

My mom and I recently attended a quilt show in old town Temecula.
Temecula is about an hour drive from my mom's house, in Riverside County.
It is filled with antique stores and unique shops.
There were just quilts draped over banisters or hung from shop windows all up and down the street.
It was really a cute event--we just wandered in and out of shops, stopping along the way to admire the quilts.