In honor of those who served during wartime, Matt and I both had the day off of work to celebrate. We took some time to do something we've been interested in doing for a while...kayaking in La Jolla Cove! We disembarked from the shore and immediately headed for leopard shark alley. We didn't see them right away, so we continued on our 2-hour trek. We saw some cute CA seals resting on the rocks and took a peak at some of the many caves along the shore (but weren't allowed to go in without a guide). On our way back to the launch site we also saw a small sting-ray, a skate, and approximately 25 leopard sharks! These 5 feet-long bottom feeders were awesome, swimming about 4 feet below our kayak! As usual, we snapped some photos...

(Where are all of those supposed seals???)
(There they are!!!)

(There they are!!!)

(The cave inlet...too cool, huh?)
(And some kayakers that had their Golden Retriever on board!)
(And some kayakers that had their Golden Retriever on board!)


Love her decor from this year, and look how adorable from her last year's decoration inside her Brooklyn limestone walk-up... 

Yesterday started off with our visit to the dog beach on Coronado. As usual, Sydney had a fabulous time crashing through the waves, and the day couldn't have been better...completely clear skies & full sunshine!
I spent the majority of the afternoon running errands and treating myself to a manicure, while Matt watched college football. In the later parts of the afternoon we finally carved our pumpkin, while enjoying "hot toddies" (rum & spiced cider)...it was delish!
Later on we went over to Margie's for dinner with she and Stan; we enjoyed the stuffed deep-dish from Lefty's, and it was WAY MORE like Giordano's than the pizzas we've had from there before. So happy to have something familiar in our neighborhood! We decided to forego the Balboa Park Haunted Trail and the scary movie, "Paranormal Activity" (which was coincidentally made in Rancho Penasquitos, just down the street from my new school), and instead ordered the original 1960's "Psycho" on our On-Demand. Neither of us had ever seen the movie before, and we both fell asleep. It wasn't much of a thriller compared to modern films! Remember the famous
This may become our Sunday morning routine, as it is right down the street from our home. I intend to spend the rest of the day on schoolwork, and making a carrot cake with cream-cheese frosting.
