Saturday, March 1, 2014

San Deigo

Last week I had a hockey tournament in San Diego, most of my team stayed at a resort called The Rancho Bernardo Inn. It was really elegant, the buildings were looked like villas but had very modern insides. The main building, however, was very old and rustic with low lying beams and stucco walls.  There was a winery connected to the resort as well as a country club, two golf courses, driving range, three pools and a separate spa and work-out facilities. My friend and I went golfing and drove golf carts around, my team went driving a lot because it was free. 

We went to the pool a lot, which was heated, so at night we would come and swim and occasionally go in the hot tub. One of the most stupid things we did was take the limes that were going off the trees and play a sort of dodge ball with them. There would be a couple of kids who were out of the pool who would throw at the kids in the pool. We would hit each other quite often so people would end up with bruises covering their chest and legs, but the best part was the pool smelled heavily of lime.        

The resort had three restaurants that provided breakfast, lunch and dinner and they were all really good.  The resort also had lots of open areas to run around in and play tag in. Even though all of the other guests were old people, business tycoons taking a weekend off or people going to play golf and not wanting their days ruined by children.

In San Diego I went to In and Out Burgers twice, they are like the Noodles of Colorado. We only had a game a day so we had a lot of time off which was really nice right after EXPO. Halfway through a couple of my friends went to a Zoo/Safari park which sounded really dumb but turned out to be really fun. We got to see a Cheetah run at full speed which was surprisingly fast, like 60MPH, and we also got to see a lot of different animals in a massive outdoor par. Then we went to the beach to cool of. The water was really cold it hurt to go in it, at first going under water hurt your head. 

2 comments:

  1. The stories that come from traveling with a team are always fun to remember. The limes scene is very clear in my mind. You could write a slice just about that. Good start to the month.

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  2. It sounds like the lime throwing was more physically demanding than hockey! I love when you talked about the business people not wanting their days ruined by children. Some people just don't know how great kids can be!

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