Lily & Leo

Babymoon – April 27-29, 2012
Khoa and I took a babymoon locally and in San Diego to enjoy our time together as a couple before our whole world changed when our little miracle arrives! We started our weekend by eating dinner at A&J’s in Irvine Friday night and then watched 5 Year Engagement at the Spectrum. The movie was very funny and cute, we would recommend it! On Saturday, we had lunch at this place Khoa heard about on the radio that has really yummy open face tacos called Taqueria Tapatio! It’s quite delicious and the watermelon juice and horchata are REALLY refreshing as well!  We then started out drive to San Diego. I always wanted to visit the stopping view point after you pass San Onofre, and so finally we did, it’s call Camp Pendleton Vista Point!  There’s tons of squirrels there that are super friendly and a lot of people had little sunflower seeds and peanuts and bread to feed them.  People gave us some sunflower seeds to so the squirrels went right up to me and ate out of my hand!  I don’t know how sanitary that was, thank goodness for hand sanitizer, but they were so darn cute I couldn’t resist getting so close to them!

After stopping at Vista Point, we continued out drive and finally made it to Ocean Beach thanks to Alvina’s suggestion!  It was nice little beach, pretty crowded, but it’s known for it’s pier.  The pier is the longest pier in the west coast, and is in a shape of a T.  The pier was not nearly as busy as the beach itself, so we enjoyed a nice spacious stroll to ourselves.  After walking on the pier, we went to the side of the beach to explore as well!

For dinner we ate at Phil’s BBQ.  It’s only of my favorite BBQ places and boy was I satisfied!  I think our baby dragon Lily enjoyed it a lot as well =P  The wait there is usually ridiculously long, so we made sure to arrive early around 4:45pm, and the line was already around the corner of the building.  We probably waited a total of 25-30 mins., so we got lucky because usually the wait is double that amount!  It’s totally worth it though =).

After dinner we went to Sunset Cliffs to watch the sunset.  It’s a really nice scenic area with a clear ocean panoramic view!  We arrived with about 30 mins to spare before the sunset, so we explored around the cliffs and got some photos.  We also got lucky that it was a nice clear day with a few clouds so we got to see the sunset perfectly!  Also, there weren’t that many people there either so it was overall a very nice, intimate time that Khoa and I got to share with each other.  Some of the people we did walk by on the cliffs complimented me saying I look great and congratulated us on our pregnancy!!  Little things like that sure makes we feel warm and fuzzy inside! =)

We went to Little Italy in Downtown San Diego afterwards to eat desserts at Extraordinary Desserts!!  I’ve been wanting to eat there for the longest time but never had the chance because we were always so full after dinner!  This time we had about a 1.5-2 hr gap between dinner and dessert, so that allowed us to digest and make room for all the fabulously delicious dessert we were about to experience!  We ordered the tres leches cake, passion fruit napoleon, raspberry and lychee sorbet!  The sorbet was SUPER refreshing and flavorful, the best sorbet I’ve ever had!  I also ordered an appetizer of an avocado and artichoke truffle bruschetta and that was the best bruschetta I’ve ever had as well!  Khoa ordered a macadamia nut iced coffee I got an American Beauty, which was pretty much a rose sparkling water.  Our overall experience there was really great, we’d definitely come back for more!

On Sunday we had lunch at Watson’s Drugs and Soda Fountain.  I had a groupon so we decided to check it out, and it’s cute little diner atmosphere restaurant, that even had a working jukebox!  They are known for the patty melts so I ordered an avocado tomato patty melt and Khoa ordered the chili cheese eggs with home fries.  I got a fancy root beer float and Khoa ordered a mimosa!  The restaurant had store connected to it that sold all sorts of old fashion candies and sodas and other knicks knacks as well that was fun to browse through.  After a really good lunch we took a stroll around the Orange Circle and did some window shopping.  We then pampered ourselves and have a 1.5hr couple’s massage!  After getting massaged for 1.5 hrs, it’s hard to go back to just the normal 1 hour massage haha!  After our pampering, we went to Main Place mall and did some light shopping while sipping on one of my favorite drinks, milk tea!  We then went home and started watching a movie on Netflix, The Sitter.  It is not a family friendly movie, but there were a lot of funny parts in it!  We had to put the movie on pause so we can go to out dinner reservations at Gulliver’s in Irvine!

Gulliver’s is a steakhouse that is based off the theme of Gulliver’s Travel (or so Khoa says).  The facade is very cute with pretty flowers and the inside is really intimate and cozy!  The staff were super friendly and when Khoa told them we were celebrating out babymoon, they were very enthusiastic in congratulating us and making us feel special!  The food portions were humungous!!!  Plus no matter what you order, they come and scoop you a huge helping of cream corn as well!!  Good thing we had a groupon for that place too because it’s quite expensive, but well worth it!  They also have gift certificates on restaurants.com (thanks Jennifer for the info) and so next time we go, we’ll definitely get a gift certificate to save some money!  By the end of the meal, I couldn’t finish half of my meal, so we decided not to order dessert.  However, they boxed us up a complimentary house special dessert anyways, a raspberry sponge cake, for celebrating our babymoon!!  Yay!!  After stuffing our faces, we went home and finished the movie.  We had such a nice and relaxing babymoon, and I couldn’t have spent it with a more wonderful man!  Enjoy our pictures, the full album can be viewed here!