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domenica 20 febbraio 2011

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

San Diego is like a second home for me because is where my American Mum lives. She adopted me unofficially 5-6 years ago. I love that city and I spent there many beautiful moments this time and in the past. Coming to San Diego brought back to my mind many memories and it was emotionally very intense.
It was very different from the other destinations of my trip and I don't really consider it part of my travel-adventure but more like a come back home. To keep me in the explorer's mood, Jan (my American Mum) took me around to a lot of nice places. It was a perfect transition before going to Europe. The climate is great in San Diego, always sunny, but still cold compared to the tropical Samoa- It helped me to slowly adapt. I had hot showers, tv and internet and we went to the theater and shopping. These things can seem normal but I didn't experience them this year before coming here.
downtown from the sea
old town San Diego - a bit of the Mexican feel

Jan took such good care of me, body and soul. We went to the gym for aerobics and zumba and to yoga on Sundays in a wonderful venue facing the ocean in La Jolla. I love that part of San Diego (it has always been my favorite), with its cove and the seals and sea lions resting on the sun or swimming in the waves.
La Jolla children's beach, now seal's beach

We went to Coronado yacht club at the party held every year for the first 100 members that joined the club. It was really nice and Jan tried to make me dance some R'n'R but she is too good for me and I have to practice for next time.

We went to the Wild Animal Park and it was really amazing to see this huge area transformed in different habitats for many species of wild animals. It seems that these animal live quite well in captivity as there are many babies born there. Jan compared it to a 5 star hotel for wild animals. We were very lucky and saw a baby cheetah (only 2 months old) and then an adult cheetah, the animal ambassador, that walked in front of us so we can see it from close distance. It is such a beautiful animal! I loved also the gorillas. They act so human but are so big. The lions sleeping on the sun were amazing as well. But there were so many beautiful animals. I like this park more then the zoo (SD zoo seems to be the biggest in the world and is incredible) as it feels more natural even if it is artificial.

After the pleasant almost all day walk in the park we went for wine tasting in Ofelia. I love California and Zinfandel is my favorite in general even if here I had a surprisingly good San Giovese and Shiraz. The owner is a former Argentinian diplomatic with Italian origins that puts a lot of passion in his winery with excellent reasults.
Jan rows and one day she went rowing and I took a nice walk on Mission beach and then an amazing breakfast at the Eggery in Pacific beach, where we had mixed fruit pancakes with whipped cream.

We went to see three shows at the theater and they were all different but all very good. I really enjoyed and one reason was the nice dinners before the shows. Before "Emma" and "Death of a salesman" in the Old globe theater in Balboa Park we had fish tacos in the Prado. Fish tacos are a "must have" in San Diego. It is basically a grilled or crisp maki maki fish with salsa and vegetables. Very special and one of the things that I usually miss from here (with Trader Joe's pita chips dipped in hummus, but this is not a local specialty). Another show we went to see was at the Horton plaza theater in the Gaslamp district downtown. We saw a commedy, "Superior donuts" and it was great. I loved in particular one line of the play that says " my shop is better then (...) as I sell Croatian pornography" . I couldn't believe my ears :-). Before going to the play we had a lovely Mexican dinner, San Dego style, sitting outside as it was so warm. I loved my margarita and lobsters :-). It was the night of the superball and it was quite calm as all the crows was concentrated in the pubs with tv screnes and totally focused on the game.



One day we went out with some friends on their powerboat and it was really wonderful.


We've done a lot of things and had great time but the most important thing for me was to be with Jan, a person that I really love and care for. I was missing so much our nice chats about important things in life. I love to talk with my Mum but my American Mum has a different point of view and I always love to hear it and reflect about what she is saying. Thank you Jan for adopting me and for being such a good friend :-).

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