Hanging with Julie Prichard in San Diego

I haven't gotten around to telling you about one of my awesomely fun days in San Diego, but today is the day!  This super duper cool chick, Julie, who blogs over at The Land of Lost Luggage, came to my resort, picked me up and showed me around San Diego (thank you again ;). 

We had chatted online, but never met in person...so it was really neat to get to meet an 'online friend,' and hit it off.  We were having such a good time, that we almost tripled the time we intended to spend touring the city, tee hee.

She took me to 'Old Town,' where I fell in love with these girls...

And even more in love with this paper mache fruit...

Such a funny story behind that.  I don't know why I love the things I do, but I couldn't live without that Papaya (second from the left on the bottom).  I have no clue what I'd do with it, but it needed to be mine :)  So I took one in the market and they wouldn't sell it to me, saying it was a display piece only.  I was so sad, so I went back on the last day of our trip to try again, and see if they had any new ones.  No luck...so I ended up getting a lime and piece of garlic (which now sit in a jar in my studio and I don't have a plan for them...anyone got any ideas?).

Here we are goofing around in Balboa Park...

...I know the ladies who took this picture, thought we were nuts.  It was not an easy task getting in and out of that monster ;)

And I just love the rooftops of some of the homes in San Diego.  This was one of the art buildings in the park, that was at the end of this beautiful walkway...

These flowers are amazing, I just love the inside yellow part...looks so funky...

And then there was this lily pond that had all different colored lily's...

(who knew there were bunches of colored lily's?)  I always think of purple when I think of a  lily.

I don't know what this building is, but the architecture is amazing...

And this lady is...well...I just liked her, tee hee...

Then, Julie took me to 'El Indio' for lunch and made me laugh with her delicious chip smile...

 

(no really, these chips were sprinkled with Paprika and to-die-for) and the food was deee-licous!

And I loved the paintings on the wall...

 

Lastly, she took me to this awesome paper crafting store called 'Paper Tales' and we stayed for well over an hour.  I was in heaven and so wish we had a store like that over here on the East Coast.  Hmmm, maybe I should open one ;)

There was so much that we didn't get to do on our trip, so I'm already trying to plan another one...and this time, we'll take the girls.  I just know they'd love it as much as we did. 

For more on our San Diego trip, click HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE!

And for Julie's tid-bits on our day, click HERE.

Jamie :)

Comments

[Julie]

ahhhh I love this! That weekend was so much fun!! Miss you..come back soon xoxo

[Denise]

How fun! I love that you got to meet a fellow blogger IRL and experience San Diego! You went at a perfect time as our friends are there and it's COLD!

Can't wait to see what you come up with for your fruit & veggie ;)
Denise

[Alysha]

Jamie... Next time you come to california and are down south again we should hang out. I bet our girls would get along great! I live just up the 5 some in south orange county. :) hehe. Looks like you had a great time. So cool to be able to meet up with an online friend and be able to hit it off. :)

Hope you and the fam have a great weekend!

[Theresa]

Wow - what fun you had! How cool it must have been to finally connect with an "online" friend. :) I am loving those Day of the Dead dolls and those fruits are paper mache? I never would have guessed. Thanks for sharing the great times with your friend. :) Theresa

[jes]

hello my dear! its been waaaaay too long...i am so terrible. :P
i was JUST in san diego! ack! maybe one day WE can meet up! how fun would that be??? :))

[Life with Kaishon]

Oh wow. It looks like such a fun time : ) I love that you could have this adventure with a blog friend. I met one of my blog friends last summer for the first time and I just LOVED it! : )