sunny san diego (part I)

Hi friends!

I hope you had a fabulous (and hopefully long) weekend. For once my fiancé and I were both off for three days in a row together, so we decided to take a mini-vacation and drove down to San Diego for the weekend. It’s about 160 miles or 3 hours from Los Angeles (3 hours because I’ve rarely done it without traffic). So we packed up, downloaded some new music, and headed to San Diego Friday morning.

We didn’t have any plans going down there, but decided to stay downtown at the US Grant hotel because it’s an awesome hotel and my favorite restaurant is in downtown San Diego. (For those of you that are in the area, go to Searsucker, it’s the greatest! You will not be disappointed.) Anyways, we were pleasantly surprised with how gorgeous this hotel is. Can my house look like this please?

Trying to figure out what’s next on our agenda for the day. The lighting was so awesome in this room that we couldn’t help but take some pictures…

The hotel itself has an interesting history, and we randomly learned about it from a very nice trolley driver that we happened to say hello to. here is what we learned: The hotel was built in 1910 by Ulysses S. Grant’s son, and is subsequently named the US Grant. It was the place to see and be seen in San Diego for many many decades, and housed many notable guests including Albert Einstein, Charles Lindbergh and numerous US presents. However, the hotel fell on hard times in the 1980′s and finally in the early 2000′s the Kumeyaay Nation, an Indian Tribe native to San Diego, bought the hotel and renovated it to honor President Grant who supported the tribe while he was president. You can read more about the history of the hotel here.