My Second Home

I finally get to go visit what I consider my second home this summer. San Diego is a place that has my heart. I lived there last summer, and had the TIME OF MY LIFE. San Diego is an amazing place to be or live. At first I lived in La Jolla for a good 6 weeks, then we moved to the young area of P.B. (pacific beach) My apartment was only ten blocks from the beautiful shore. I loved to walk down to the beach, and just chill for the day. In my spare time I would surf, play beach volleyball/football/frisbee/smashball (its uhhhmazing!)



I also liked to go shopping in the amazing fashion valley. (nordstrom, neimans, anything youcould imagine) was in there. it was heaven, and I dont even like to shop. My favorite place in San Diego to visit for the day is the La Jolla cove. Its not really something I can describe into words, but its absolutely beautiful. There is grass right beside the beach, and cool trees that are drawin in dr suess books (he was from la jolla) my favorite resturaunt tha dev worked at called "Fresh[er]" The people who worked there were amazing.





LA JOLLA COVE...beauiful right?

John David

Meeting new people is one thing I do enjoy, but nothing beats flashing back with a friend from the past. My friend John David from Baton Rouge was stationed in San Diego the same time I was living there. John David was a Marine and lived at Camp Pendleton. Like me, in the beginning he was not able to see how amazing California really was. He was constantly on call or having to put in a report for something, so he barely had any free time. He saw San Diego as the place he worked. Despite his horrible schedule that never seemed to work out with our plans, I was determined to show him California the way I saw it, through my own eyes. We visited shops, zoos, beaches, restaurants and galleries together. Those places turned out to be some of our favorite places to visit. John David and I ventured off all over San Diego. Every day I started to love everything about the city a little bit more. How could I not love perfect weather without a cloud in the sky? If we walked down the street, there was always someone smiling at us, and smiles are very contagious. Together we both found a deep passion for the place and the people.

PART TWO

John David is an amazing guy that has changed my life in so many ways. He is a marine and probably the strongest person I know. Emotionally and physically. He is coming back from being over seas for almost a year this summer. Hopefully he can tell me all about his new adventures and things he has been going through. you see, we did everything together, and we were inceperable. So whatever I felt, he felt. and whatever we learned we learned together...so being seprated by miles seperated our relationship drastically. but he is still a person who helped me become who I am today and without our advertures and get aways I dont think I would be the same. He changed me in a great way, and I have him to thank everyday. Being away from someone for so long can be hard but im hoping it will all just go back to normal and we can continue our amazing friendship. He gets of the ship in Hawaii and his dad is going to be there to meet him. how fabulous is that?HAWAII?! im very jealous haha. then he is flying into SD then possibly going back to baton rouge. Cant wait to see him :)

WINDANSEA

another favorite place of mine is Windansea beach. Say it really fast... its wind and sea...get it?!
haha... the picture above is at windandsea beach. Its absolutely BEAUTIFUL THERE. It is one of my favorite beachs to visit. But parking is a sport there..as you can kinda see below. Thats the road down to Windansea.
Its filled with huge rocks and bolders all over the shoreline that are covered in moss. Its un real how beautiful it is. The water hits the rocks and creates a mist and it can be kind of eerie looking sometimes, but it beautiful. Windansea is not good for surfing or boogie boarding but we found it still fun to try. Dev liked to get smashed in the sand when the current would just take him under. but its a feeling of relief when you finally try it.


The water splash over the rocks, and you get soaked. but its still fun!

Windandsea is nomrally a low key beach, and not a lot of people really go there during the day. so it was our perfect getaway when we wanted to get away from the crowd of P.B.