When the rain gets going, the shoppers get going..when you can't sit at the pool or see the sights, a trip to the Premium Outlet Centre 10 minutes from your hotel is just the job. It drizzles most of the afternoon as we dive into shops, mainly looking for shoes for Ted's awful short wide feet, with no success. I think he is going to have to have shoes made in future, too difficult to find them off the shelf.
We did find some nice bits and pieces at Banana Republic, Columbia Sports and, as ever, stockup on really good prices at the French L'Occitaine.
Good thing we only had to risk our lives crossing the road from our hotel to the nice G&B brew pub for happy hour dinner again. $10 margaritas for $6, mango/shrimp and tapas tray, 10% coupon from hotel, $10 off to join their dinner club, dinner: $35 total. Tada.
Next morning we make an early start (for us) at 9am. The storm has passed and it's mostly sunny now but very windy still. Gas is now $3.50 a liter.
We follow the easy I-15 and 1-215 skirting Los Angeles east and are soon back on the beautiful long stretches of unspoiled sandy beaches of Southern California. We spent many holidays here when we worked, at co-worker John Knight's condo at Del Mar Beach Club. Still very exclusive, it is not C$200 a week now, it's US$200+ a day.
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