hangin' out near 'home'

saturday. october 13. 2012  when we travel by car we have a tendency to bring everything we think we might even remotely...possibly....'outside chance' need or want to have to make our time away more enjoyable.  For instance,  we bring our own Vitamix, because even though these condos always have blenders (for our smoothies) we're never sure if they'd be able to handle the frozen fruit we throw at 'em.  Well, this time, since we're both hooked (line and sinker) on yoga, we brought that 'gear', too, and it's been so wonderful....not only during our three days of travel (after spending much of each day in the car), but for use here, too, plenty of time....space....and immediate pay-off.

And, altho at home we usually pull up the yoga station on Pandora, today we mixed it up a bit and did our routine during the OU/Texas game.....we're not purists, y' know......namaste, sooners;)

Midday we strolled through the Cedros Design District, a shopping/dining/artsy part of solana beach just a block from Sand Pebbles

 

took a picture of one of the prettiest pieces of sidewalk we've ever seen........

 

 

 

 and, now that I'm writing this I'm wishing I'd taken more pics of the unique shops we spent most of the day browsing through....but maybe that's for another time.

 

We came back to our own kitchen for some Braised Beef and Portobello Torteloni (thank you Stouffers!) and a salad and then walked to the beach for the 'sunset show'.  Catching some Oceans 11 now (how many times have we seen that?) before our nightly excursion to the hot tub.