San Diego, CA

Last week, Ovi and Stephanie invited me to go boating with them in the San Diego Harbor. Was I interest? of course! Before I left the house, I made sure I had all the essential items: camera, check; suntan lotion, check; sunglasses, check. Off I went to drive about 150 miles down to the Yacht Club to meet up with Ovi, Stephanie and a few others. when I was 2/3 of the way, I stopped to fuel up…had about 45 miles to go and the gas meter said I had about that much gas left. I pulled into a gas station…NOOO…don’t tell me I didn’t have my wallet. I looked through the bottom of my purse and found three quarters, three nickels and 10 pennies, plus another quarter and penny on the floor of the car. I felt very silly going inside and counting out a handful of change for the attendant, but maybe it would help me just make it. When I got back on the interstate, the roads started going up hill which took more gas, so then my gas gauge said I was going to be about 10 miles short of gas…even with the $1.26 I just put in. I called Ovi and Stephanie (for the second time) and said I probably should get off and get gas and where were they. Thankfully they were only a couple miles ahead of me, so we pulled off at the exit. I sheepishly said to Ovi when he came to swipe his credit card for me, “I guess I shouldn’t drive a Mercedes if I can’t afford the gas!!!”

So how was the boating? It was wonderful…a perfect day to be out on the water. We rode around the bay, then went to Coronado to get some food. While we were waiting for our take out to go back to the boat to eat, we witnessed a guy caught by two others as he tried to take a $20 from one of them. They held onto him until the police came and handcuffed him…all about 20-30 ft from where we were.