A Weekend Getaway

Last weekend The Husband and I decided to splurge on a quick one night trip down to San Diego to celebrate Valentine's Day and our tax return. We are so lucky to live so close to such great destinations.

So Sunday afternoon we made the hour and half long journey down to SD and arrived in the gaslamp district. We had never stayed in this area before (we usually stay in the Mission Bay area), so it was a new experience. I found a great deal on Hotels.com for a small boutique hotel called The Ivy. Let me just say this hotel was AWESOME. The location was perfect, service great, and the rooms/views were fantastic. The room had a huge bathtub and shower, a great view with 2 huge windows with window seats, a good size flat screen TV and a great mini-bar. The rooms were small, but we knew that when we booked a boutique hotel. The only complaint we had was that the toilet started making random noises in the middle of the night and the nightclub across the street apparently had some issues since the police were there in for at about 1:30am. This of course wasn't the hotels fault, but it did wake up The Husband.

When we booked the room we also received a $25 credit to the restaurant that they have on site, The Quarter Kitchen, so we decided to have dinner there. The food was excellent! The Husband had the Rack of Lamb, which came with Ratatouille (we were really excited about that being huge Disney nerds), and I had garlic cream of spinach and macaroni and cheese which was to die for. I would highly recommend this restaurant even if you are not staying at the Ivy. It was on the pricey side, but not over the top.

After dinner we walked around and explored the gaslamp district, stopping briefly at TGI Fridays to have a drink. The whole area is really fun, full of little shops, pubs and bars. There is also Horton Plaza, which is huge! We spent a little time there as well.


After returning to our room we discovered that the bar across the street had a mechanical bull that we could see from our wonderful window seats. We sent probably way too much time watching drunk people try and stay on that thing, but it was hilarious.

Monday morning it was pouring, so we decided to head home in the morning. It was a great trip and a much needed escape from reality.