We've finally gotten our photos from our anniversary trip/family visit to California. Be on the look out for lots of stories about food! I'll start with our first, and probably favorite, restaurant visit in San Diego. We asked the concierge at the hotel what recommendations he had. Naturally, he had been coached to share the restaurants labeled on the map of the Gaslamp Quarter. But at the last minute, he pointed out a spot across from Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres.

After visiting the yacht club and watching military craft pass by on the water, we decided it was time to eat and chose the less obvious restaurant on the map. The concierge didn't have the right intersection, but luckily he wrote "Basic" by the star he had drawn. We passed "The Park at the Park" on our walk there. Outside of the Padres stadium is a little grassed area with a path, benches, and a large screen TV for locals to watch on-the-road games. It was so beautiful and fun to watch.