Day 201 - July 20

La Jolla is full of cool caves.  It also has a place where you can see where 2 tectonic plates meet (and cause earthquakes.)  It ALSO is the home of the La Jolla Playhouse, which is the place where Jersey Boys and other famous musicals started out.  So La Jolla (La-Hoya) is a nice place.

This is the only place we had timed reservations for our whole trip.  First, we made lunch reservations at Ocean Terrace which is part of George's at the Cove.  It was voted best (lots of things) in San Diego and it lived up to the hype.  We decided to do lunch instead of dinner, but Mike was able to have a dinner dish which he really enjoyed.  The view was great - from a rooftop overlooking the cove and beaches and caves.

After meandering around the two different parts of La Jolla (the ritzy part and the neighborhood part) we headed out to sea with La Jolla Bike & Kayak.  It was much harder than last year in Hawaii because of the way the waves hit the cove.  Plus, we had to kayak out past the surf (which was super fun, but a tiring way to begin a journey!). At the end we got to surf our kayaks back to shore.  Awesome.  I was really worried about being freezing because it was barely 70 degrees when we started out, and the water temps were almost 10 degrees below that.  But the work of paddling kept me warm.  Mike says I'm a better kayaker now than I was a year ago, but he's probably lying. :)