39th anniversary

Our 39th anniversary was July 25th.  For my birthday Jill had given me two tickets for a dinner cruise on the Tall Ship Windy for that night.  The kids gave me a gift certificate for a room at the Hyatt for that night. We headed downtown and checked into the Hyatt; they upgraded us to a suite facing the river.

 

We headed down Michigan Avenue hoping to have lunch at the Oak Street Beachstro but the wait was too long.  Tried the Cheesecake Factory in the John Hancock but same story so we ended up at the Mighty Nice Grill in Water Tower Place

We walked around, went over to Rush Street then headed back towards the river.

Went back to our hotel and got ready for dinner

Took the water taxi over to Navy Pier

and headed down to the dock for the Tall Ship Windy.

The cruise was very nice, the food was not so great. We thoroughly enjoyed being out on the lake for the fireworks

Next morning we walked along the river walk but found that none of those restaurants were open for breakfast so we had a nice breakfast at the Great Room in the Renaissance Hotel

Friday July 17th

We had left Friday open to see what people wanted to do.  We had decided to go to the Wild Animal Park.  Unfortunately it was getting pretty hot.  We had breakfast at the Cottage nearby

  and one of the guys there warned that it would be really hot out by the Wild Animal Park.  He suggested we take in the Scripps Aquarium so we decided to start there and see where the day took us.

It was a pretty nice place.

Next stop was the Torrey Pines Glider Port.  Alas, the wind was blowing the wrong way so we didn’t get to see anybody take off

Next stop was Meditation Gardens, again, so that Dave and Jeanne could see it.

After a quick stop at VG Donuts we headed back to the hotel for “free time”. 

We wrapped up a wonderful week with dinner at George’s outdoors high above the cove.  That made 3 of the Ten Best Restaurants with a View in San Diego

Next morning we saw Dave and Jeanne off and then drove the other four to the airport.  We went down to Seaport Village for lunch, dropped off our van and flew home.

Thursday July 16th Seaport Village

Had a nice breakfast at Cody’s overlooking La Jolla Cove Park then drove everybody up to the top of Mt. Soledad

 

We then headed down to Seaport village for the girls and the USS Midway aircraft carrier for the guys

Had dinner at an Italian restaurant a few blocks from the hotel