This weekend my boyfriend, George, paid me a visit for a pre-Christmas celebration. Being from Wisconsin, he was skeptical about how festive a California beach town could really be for the holidays, but after an ice skating session on the beach in Coronado and a few tamales from the farmer's market, I think he started to warm up to the idea :)
The La Jolla Farmer's Market- Where George had his first Christmas
tamale and I enjoyed a cappuccino.
After strolling around the market for awhile, we ventured over to Little Italy in downtown San Diego. Both of us had never been there before so we decided to take a walk down India St. and stumbled upon the most delicious Italian restaurant called Bencotto. Since they make their own pasta there, I (of course) had to try the gnocchi al pesto, and I was definitely not disappointed.
Friday night we met up with my coworker Katie and her cousin Cora to go ice skating on the sands of Coronado island. I enjoyed a delicious chocolate martini, before embarrassing George at my
lack of skating skills. Thankfully he was patient with me and by the end of it I didn't need to
hold onto the side boards :)
And of course, what Christmas season isn't complete without seeing a surfing Santa on the
boardwalk at Mission Beach? Happy Holidays!
