San Diego Vacation - Part Three

Day 3 of our vacation was so much fun! Got up at 8:30 and went and had breakfast at my friends Kim and Newton's favorite spot in Fallbrook called "The Garden Center Cafe". I had a poached egg, turkey bacon and potatoes...yum! After breakfast, we went back to the house and Kim showed me all the wonderful plants and trees that they have in their yard.

Neither Kim or I knew what type of flower this is, but it was beautiful!

Apricots

Grapefruit

Grapefruit Close Up

Oranges

Orange Close Up

More oranges

I wish I would have taken a picture of the Meier Lemon tree that they have in their front yard.  We used one in the fresh guacamole we made.

The kids (theirs and mine) had been trying to convince us that it would be okay dokey for just the three of them (ages 20, 15 and 14) to drive themselves through LA county to go to Magic Mountain. Yea, right...like that's going to happen, so to ease the blow of being told "NO freaking way", we decided to go the San Diego County Fair that's held at the Del Mar Racetrack every June/July. Fred and I use to go when we lived out there, in fact, we saw the group "Mike and the Mechanics" at that fair one time. It is a great memory!

When we arrived, there was a ginormous crowd in line to get in, but we weathered the wait and line and once inside, the kids were given some cash and off they went to ride some rides. Kim and I took the time to go see some of the exhibits, our favorite being the flowers -

Our second favorite part of course, was the FOOD!  FAIR FOOD!

There was lots to choose from and I was trying to stick with things that I don't normally see at our own Iowa State Fair . First up.....a HUGE creme puff. I glad that I didn't take a picture of it, because I wolfed it down and it was delicious and I didn't even feel guilty because of how much walking we were doing....yea, way to justify...LOL

This is something that I did NOT try -

We also rode the sky ride so I could get some photos of just how cool the location of this fair is. The racetrack sits right on the ocean and it's just beautiful.

We were hoping that there would be someone cool performing when we were there, but no bands or concerts that night which is kind of surprising considering it was a Saturday night.  Guy Fieri from the Food Network was making a appearance but that was it.

Some of the other foods we tried were the gyros, potato chips on a stick, fried zucchini and some fabulous baklava.  Sure glad we walked a lot, because none of those things were really on my "healthy choice" list..lol!

We met back up with the kids when they ran out of money, of course and decided it was time to head back to Fallbrook.  A great time was had by all of us!