July 26, 2012
Today was uneventful, but at the same time a lot
happened. We got to sleep in this
morning at the Spa and enjoyed every single second. It was very secluded and relaxing…and very
warm! It was really nice and we loved
being there, I didn’t want to leave! We
enjoyed our 30 minute massages and sat by the pool for about 30 minutes, and
left around noon. We headed south to San
Diego and on our way stopped at In-N-Out Burger.
I have had it before, but you have to have it while you are
in California. It is a must. I do like Five Guys a lot better, but
In-N-Out is cheaper and still good, so I do enjoy eating there every once in a
while, just not all the time. After
enjoying some delicious burgers animal style, we got back on the road. When we got to San Diego, we first went to
the Mormon Battalion Historic Site.
We were there for about an hour…which was more than we
wanted to be there, but it was fine. It
was a really nice little place that showed some fun videos. We enjoyed our time there and recommend it to
anyone that is visiting Old Town San Diego.
After we did the little tour at the historic site, we walked around Old
Town a bit and enjoyed some of the little shops there.
We were only there for about 30 minutes until we decided to
head to Seaport Village. Seaport Village
is a cute little place by the boardwalk on the bay with some fun shops and
restaurants. There was a guy there that
was stacking rocks on top of each other and making them balance, crazy!!!
Mark has seen him on youtube before and was so excited to
see him in person. We also got a really
pretty view of the Coronado Bridge.
It is SO narrow and tall (200 ft tall!) but a really neat
view. There was also a guy there by the
bay flying some AWESOME kites.
They were pretty much flying themselves. He wasn’t holding on to any of them. They were pretty and neat to see. We couldn’t decide if we wanted to keep
walking down the bay or turn around and eat dinner, so we decided to head back
to the car since my foot was hurting thanks to some wood from yesterday. We then drove through Gaslamp Quarter before
heading to dinner (thanks to Groupon) and our hotel in Chula Vista. On our way to Chula Vista, we missed our turn
and ended up going over the Coronado Bridge on accident…and it was the worst
wrong turn ever made by anyone, ever. As
we got onto the bridge, we saw this sign:
then we started to
talk about it and wonder if it happened often and if it did, why weren’t there
suicide barriers on the bridge? Well
literally 1 minute later as we are ABOUT to get off of the bridge onto Coronado
Island, I see 2 police cars. Then I look
a little in front of them, and there was a woman dressed in black with long
hair. We were literally SO close to
getting off the bridge but instead, we had to see a woman commit suicide. 2 lanes to our left, there she was. She put one leg over the edge then the cops
are yelling at her not to jump then start running after her as she falls to the
ocean. This was right out of the drivers
side window as we passed her. She jumped
at the same time Mark’s window was passing her…what are the odds of that
happening? If we had stayed and walked
longer around the bay, we would not have seen it. If we would not have missed our turn, we
would not have seen it. If we were only
30 more seconds ahead or behind where we were, we would not have seen it and I
would not have this sick feeling in my stomach.
My heart hurt when I saw her jump and I couldn’t believe what was
happening. I can’t get that image out of
my mind and just thinking about it makes me want to cry. It was so sad, and I hope that I never have
to witness something like that ever again.
We finally turned around to head BACK over the bridge that we
accidentally went over, and we went to dinner and our hotel. The hotel is just fine for us and has everything
we need, and it has an amazing view of the ocean, so no complaints here. Well, we didn’t do much today, but we saw
much more than we were expecting.
Tomorrow we were planning on going to Coronado Beach…we will see if that
happens. I don’t know if I want to go
over that bridge again. Hopefully I’ll
be able to get to sleep tonight. I am
definitely counting my many blessings tonight…and singing a lot of hymns to
help me get to sleep.
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