La Jolla Saturday. 18/19c Cloud & Sun

After another epic sleep Roger brings me a welcome coffee. This time with fresh milk. We remembered to pick up some from reception last night as I hate the long life coffee mate they leave in the room. We shower with leisure and plan the day. We have our his & hers facials booked for 14.30 in La Jolla a short ride up the west coast so decide to spend the day there. I need the laundry so find one a couple of blocks from the hotel. The laundry is combined with a local deli and Roger is amazed by the alcohol selection including the largest collection of tequila he has ever seen. We decide on Uber again, they are so quick. Only three minutes away. The drive takes around 14 minutes along the 5 coastal highway once we are out of gaslamp area. Surprised how hilly the area is we start to go downhill to La Jolla ( pronounced La holla). It’s a cute little village, amazingly clean and tidy, with the main road sprinkled with neat houses, little boutique shops and bars. We check out the spa where we are having our treatment for later which is easy to find and walk down to the shore. Amazed to see so many seals, sea lions, cormorants, seagulls & pelicans. The rocks are covered in white bird poo, the smell a bit pony too but it’s a fabulous sight. On the opposite side of the road to the sea there’s a steep rock with restaurant and cafés on top with amazing views. I want to be up there! So we walk a bit further uphill along the prom then find steps to take us back onto the main drag where we find a smart looking place called Eddie V’s. It has valet parking out the front! Lots of expensive cars parked along the road. I notice some of the electric cars don’t have number plates at the front only the rear? At the entrance to Eddie V’s we are treated like royalty and I’m thinking we may be the only ones in the place but up a lift and in to the open air and a wonderful busy restaurant with white table cloths and neatly dressed waiting staff. We are shown to what must be the best table in the restaurant right against a glass wall with incredible views looking down on the rocks and wildlife. Canoes, divers, swimmers, Kayaks – a real treat to watch. An aeroplane flies past towing an advert for Coors beer and returns ten minutes later with a different ad and we wonder how they changed it so quickly. Realised later that there were two aircraft!!! We haven’t had breakfast so we’re looking for brunch but as it’s now 12 noon I guess we were not surprised when they handed us the lunch menu. Needless to say the wine list came too. Roger persuades me to have a cocktail so I have a Bloody Mary and Roger a Strawberry Dragon. His drink was lush and we decide this will be the cocktail for Joolia’s birthday as her nickname is “STRAWBERRY” this was due to a little birth mark when she was born. Again a bottle of Whispering Angel from Provence. I choose Sashimi as an appetiser and Roger a Shrimp cocktail followed by Parmesan crusted sole and scallops. The waiter persuaded us we needed a side of vegetables and we choose potato gratin and spinach with Parmesan. Both side dishes would have been enough for me on their own. Although the food was fabulous we just couldn’t manage it all so the waiter named West boxed up our leftovers to take away. Reluctantly we leave and walk around town a bit to digest our huge lunch before our spa appointment. A few boutiques purchases later and we arrive at the spa. Two lovely young ladies take us into a cosy clinic room and we are treated to a fabulous truffle facial ( whatever that is) before we know it after cleansing, steaming, microdermabrasion, massage, we are cooked. Naturally we both fell asleep, Roger quite deeply and he didn’t want to do much after so we took and Uber playing amazing music back to the hotel. Calling to collect my clean laundry on the way. $30 plus a tip for quite a bundle and it was all ironed. By this time it was 5pm so happy to doze and watch Tv for a while. After watching two Harry Potter films back to back we decide we are too cosy to get up and stay put for the evening.