Everybody Loves Baseball

As an early birthday treat, I got Mr X tickets to the baseball game this past Friday here in SD. Padres vs. Rockies. I managed to get us some pretty nice seats. Here’s a picture:

The obnoxious thing is that despite the fact that I ponied up for nicer seats specifically for Mr X's birthday, my nice seats were right behind This Woman:

Her head is MASSIVE! It didnt' matter that I was in the seventh row because her head filled nearly my entire view of the important part of the field! I was constantly twisting and craning my neck and camera in order to get these shots:

I also attempted to take pictures of the “Friday Friarworks”, which are always an ocular delight:

I can't speak (write) for Mr X, but I had a lovely night.

Colorado, Part 2

On Sunday Mr X and I went to the Colorado Rockies game. They were playing the Mets. In the game on Saturday they lost pretty badly and from what I heard it was a pretty boring game in general but Sunday's game was great. One of the newer players (who had a batting average of .000) hit a home run with two guys already on base and won the game for the Rockies. We had pretty decent seats over by first base. On Monday we slowly made our way back south toward NM. One of the places we stopped was Garden of the Gods. It is a beautiful place. I wish we had been able to spend more time there exploring but we only have a half hour or so because we didn't want to miss the Crocodile Farm later (a future post).

There's no place like home

I have lived in New Mexico for almost a year and a half now. And I have probably thought about San Diego nearly every single one of those days. I miss it. I lived there for 6 years and most of that time I lived close enough to the beach to walk to it. That's probably what made it so great to live there. I imagine that if I lived in some other part of San Diego, like Mira Mesa or El Cajon, it wouldn't have been quite so hard to leave. But I was lucky enough to spend my time in San Diego in Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach, La Jolla, Encinitas, and Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Encinitas and Cardiff were my favorites (the north part of San Diego county).

We lived a couple blocks from here in Ocean Beach: And later, a few blocks from Swami's in Encinitas:(This was during the winter months when it was probably a mere 65 degrees and I was so cold that a beanie was a must. What a wimp, huh?)

This is one of Hubs' favorite surf spots (Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach). My favorite was up by Swami's at a surf spot called Bone Yard. (It isn't as scary as it sounds)

This is Hubs with one of his favorite surfboards and me with mine:

We surfed together pretty much weekly most of the year (not during winter for me ... I'm not a die-hard). Hubs surfed at least a couple times a week all year long, if not more.

Oh, and I miss the MLB games as well. This was at the new Petco Park for a Padres game:
(once again, I apparently thought it was kind of cold out)

I would like to think that we took advantage of where we lived while we were in SD. We played a lot and had an incredibly great time together there. Needless to say, moving to New Mexico was quite a change in lifestyle but it was a good choice. We sacrificed some things to gain access to some other things. We were able to buy a house here in NM (NEVER would have happened in Southern California) and Hubs has a wonderful job that he actually likes now. Plus we get to travel quite a bit more, which we love to do. So the trade-off was good...but I will probably always miss San Diego.