The time has arrived – ready or not, vacation recap posts times twenty is headed your way. I wasn’t kidding the other day when I said I took 897 photos. I have this phobia on vacation that if I don’t photograph it, I won’t remember it. And because I like everything about vacation, I want to document everything on vacation. I’m hoping that there is a support group for this because this woman needs some serious help. Because this post would extend all the way to China [not even exaggerating] if I crammed all of our vacation in one post, I’m going to break it down day by day for you. Or maybe that’s for me. Regardless, here we go.
Sunday – our first official day in California. Thanks to Southwest Airlines for being awesome and having zero flight change fees, we decided to head out Saturday evening rather than Sunday evening so we would have an extra full day of sunshine. When you live in Indiana you will go to drastic measures for Vitamin D in the month of February. After waking up in sunny San Diego, it was time to make the one hour drive to our destination for the first part of our trip, Lakehouse Hotel and Resort in San Marcos. Because we weren’t in a real hurry, we decided to stop off in La Jolla to visit with all of our beloved seal friends who smell so good. La Jolla is one of those magical places to me that I never want to leave. Well, until the seals start smelling not so good.
Next up, duh. IN-N-OUT. If you travel out West and don’t eat here at least once, we can’t be friends. Double-Double animal style and twenty thousand calories later we were satisfied.
Finally we arrived to our first home for the week, one of our favorite spots in Southern Californa, the Lakehouse Hotel and Resort. We had stayed here one other time and loved every second of our time so it only made sense to go back. I think what I love so much about this place is that it’s really quite simple. The property isn’t extravagant however they nail the details that they do have. It’s warm, inviting, clean, and super chill. Not to mention it’s in an awesome central location – you are about an hour North of San Diego, 20 minutes from several cute beach towns [Carlsbad, Oceanside, Encinitas, Cardiff-by-the-Sea,etc] and then a quick one hour drive to Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Balboa Island, etc. You can do as much or as little as you want staying here which is totally our jam. If you are traveling with kids, this is also a great spot as it is close to LEGOLAND and Safari Park. The other huge benefit to this place is that it sits on a lake [hence the name] meaning you can kayak, rent a pontoon, paddle board and more.