Got up at 06:30 (yes, honestly!) - showered dressed, and then popped downstairs for complimentary coffee and home baked cookies... scrummy! We weren't due at breaksast until 09:00 so we meandered down to the beach where we saw lots of seals basking on the sand in the early morning sunlight as waves gently lapped about them. Then we had to avoid literally hundreds of joggers of all shapes and sizes as they pounded by - don't yet know whether it's organised groups and/or weekend only or every day... time will tell. Further along an archway festooned with flowers was being put up in readiness for a wedding overlooking the ocean.
After a slow stroll back to the B&B we had a Tex Mex breakfast with lots of fresh orange juice and fruit and as much coffee as we could take. Suitably fed and watered we went off to explore the shops, including a music store where we checked out the Taylor guitars on display. By mid afternoon we were feeling a little peckish so treated ourselves to a couple of Haagen Dazs mint and chocolate biscuit 'Dazzlers'... even the small/standard size cones/dishes are huge!
Back at the B&B we noticed rows of chairs being set out on an adjacent lawn and we joked that they must be preparing for a wedding - yep, sure enough, out came the bride in a long white dress and four or five bridesmaids in blue closely followed by the groom and other men in dark suits, shirts and ties and white floral buttonholes. In close proximity was a photographer who seemed to race around being everywhere at once - stopping the wedding party here and there, posing them, taking loads of shots.
After a glass of iced water we set off to explore the area further and walked down to the beach, turning south along a path that was thronged with sunseekers and barbeques and another wedding party. We decided to walk along the sand - and, there, coming up the steps from the beach was the bride we'd seen earlier and the bridesmaids and the indefategible photographer with two cameras slung around her neck. On the beach there were people of all shapes and sizes, with varying amounts of tan in varying degrees of near nakedness - we did feel somewhat overdressed in our jiva-esque black tee shirts and purple caps! Walking back along La Jolla Boulevard we were reminded that this place is known as one of the most affluent places in the USA - there were dealerships for Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Maserati, Lotus, Bugatti, Lamborghini and various other expensive marques. The houses are huge, and individually designed so no two are quite the same... and at almost every corner there's another sight to behold.
We got back to the B&B just as the wedding next door was about to officially start - a hundred or so guests were seated and the music was playing (a very kitsch bouncy treatment of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow') as the bridesmaids and groomsmen took up position. Then, after a few bars of Pachelbel's Canon the photographer bounded out of the building just in front of the bride... and almost the whole congrgration stood up to take their own snapshots too. We watched a while as the minister said a few words (he really should invest in a Bose L1, or at least a Bose L1 Compact), We made our way inside and found we were just in time for the complimentary wine and cheese session, so poured a couple of glasses of white wine to wash down some crackers and a selection of cheeses and headed out to the terrace to enjoy it in the early evening sunshine while watching the delightful hummingbirds hovering and flitting about.
Refreshed, we then walked back along the boulevard to a nice Chinese restaurant for our evening meal (the diet will just have to wait until we get home). Then it was a pleasant moonlit stroll back to the B&B - as we approached we could hear the wedding disco in full swing... it was still going strong when we decided to turn in for the night, but we were so tired that we were asleep in moments.
140 photos today.
Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
The Bed & Breakfast Inn at La Jolla website
After a slow stroll back to the B&B we had a Tex Mex breakfast with lots of fresh orange juice and fruit and as much coffee as we could take. Suitably fed and watered we went off to explore the shops, including a music store where we checked out the Taylor guitars on display. By mid afternoon we were feeling a little peckish so treated ourselves to a couple of Haagen Dazs mint and chocolate biscuit 'Dazzlers'... even the small/standard size cones/dishes are huge!
Back at the B&B we noticed rows of chairs being set out on an adjacent lawn and we joked that they must be preparing for a wedding - yep, sure enough, out came the bride in a long white dress and four or five bridesmaids in blue closely followed by the groom and other men in dark suits, shirts and ties and white floral buttonholes. In close proximity was a photographer who seemed to race around being everywhere at once - stopping the wedding party here and there, posing them, taking loads of shots.
After a glass of iced water we set off to explore the area further and walked down to the beach, turning south along a path that was thronged with sunseekers and barbeques and another wedding party. We decided to walk along the sand - and, there, coming up the steps from the beach was the bride we'd seen earlier and the bridesmaids and the indefategible photographer with two cameras slung around her neck. On the beach there were people of all shapes and sizes, with varying amounts of tan in varying degrees of near nakedness - we did feel somewhat overdressed in our jiva-esque black tee shirts and purple caps! Walking back along La Jolla Boulevard we were reminded that this place is known as one of the most affluent places in the USA - there were dealerships for Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Maserati, Lotus, Bugatti, Lamborghini and various other expensive marques. The houses are huge, and individually designed so no two are quite the same... and at almost every corner there's another sight to behold.
We got back to the B&B just as the wedding next door was about to officially start - a hundred or so guests were seated and the music was playing (a very kitsch bouncy treatment of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow') as the bridesmaids and groomsmen took up position. Then, after a few bars of Pachelbel's Canon the photographer bounded out of the building just in front of the bride... and almost the whole congrgration stood up to take their own snapshots too. We watched a while as the minister said a few words (he really should invest in a Bose L1, or at least a Bose L1 Compact), We made our way inside and found we were just in time for the complimentary wine and cheese session, so poured a couple of glasses of white wine to wash down some crackers and a selection of cheeses and headed out to the terrace to enjoy it in the early evening sunshine while watching the delightful hummingbirds hovering and flitting about.
Refreshed, we then walked back along the boulevard to a nice Chinese restaurant for our evening meal (the diet will just have to wait until we get home). Then it was a pleasant moonlit stroll back to the B&B - as we approached we could hear the wedding disco in full swing... it was still going strong when we decided to turn in for the night, but we were so tired that we were asleep in moments.
140 photos today.
Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
The Bed & Breakfast Inn at La Jolla website
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