About a month ago, my friend Jenny emailed me, saying that if I booked a flight to Southern California, she'd get us a hotel room in San Diego and we could have a fabulously girly weekend visiting two of our former students, Amber and Sarah.
I immediately booked a cheap flight for this past weekend.
Jenny reserved a room for us at the Westgate, a hotel so ornate that we immediately agreed the gloriousness would have been completely lost on our husbands who, incidentally, we left at home with an almost-two-year-old and a new puppy. We felt about two seconds of guilt--that we were enjoying sunny San Diego while they were potty training a puppy--until we realized that the grandness of the place could never be fully appreciated by two men who spent their day at Rubio's and then at a hardware store "for fun."
The hotel was full of sparkling chandeliers, antique furnishings, and tasseled drapes. Mostly everything was gold! gold! gold! in the most fabulous possible way.
This is how we turned on the faucets in our room:
We ate breakfast in the lavishly appointed hotel restaurant where the waitstaff inquired whether we were planning to attend the opera that evening. Some of the ladies at breakfast were actually wearing gloves--fancy dress gloves--and many were drinking white wine at 10:30 in the morning.
In two days we visited two candy shops so our purses were full of gummi raspberries, sour fizzy candies, and Bubbalicious Ink'd gum.
Classy!
We drank Cokes and ate huge sundaes at the Ghirardelli shop and ordered Milky Way Mochas at The Living Room Cafe in La Jolla. We had room service bring up coffee and stayed in our pajamas as long as possible.
Basically, we were 12-year-olds.
But, you know, totally classy 12-year-olds with credit cards.
The Living Room is SO good!! It's what I miss living here in Irvine, there was a Living Room right by San Diego Stata.
Posted by: Habbala` | February 23, 2009 at 02:21 PM
Too fun! I'm jealous!!
Posted by: Morgan | February 23, 2009 at 02:27 PM
That sounds like the best weekend ever!
Posted by: Hope | February 23, 2009 at 05:01 PM
I am so ridiculously jealous...of both the hotel and the former students visit.
Glad you had fun pretty ladies.
Posted by: Kayla Smith | February 23, 2009 at 06:22 PM
I'm wanting a chandelier for my birthday. Maybe I need those....
Posted by: Pink Chihuahua Princess | February 23, 2009 at 06:57 PM
Holy moley, that place looks fabulous.
Do you think they'd notice if you moved in? Although, then there's there's the Husband to consider.
Hmmm...choices...
Posted by: Korinna | February 24, 2009 at 06:27 AM
I think it needs to be an annual "conference". Our husbands can't argue if we have a conference to attend. Not going would make us irresponsible... Kayla, will you host next year's conference in SLO? Perhaps at the Madonna Inn? Now THAT'S classy.
Posted by: Jen | February 24, 2009 at 07:20 AM
Oh, you are so right -- that hotel is TOTALLY you. And definitely wouldn't have been appreciated as much by the menfolk. :)
Posted by: Zandria | February 24, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Next year at the Madonna Inn it is. Get ready Jen and Janet
Posted by: Kayla | February 24, 2009 at 01:46 PM
I'm confused - did you get a puppy?
Posted by: Jessica | February 24, 2009 at 02:46 PM
Looks like so much fun! I love the Living Room.
Posted by: Andrea | February 24, 2009 at 04:02 PM
Both the toddler and the puppy belong to Jenny and Gavin. Sorry to confuse! No babies or puppies for us anytime soon--at least until I graduate!
I have been wanting to stay at the Madonna Inn forever. Looking forward to conferencing there soon. =)
Posted by: Janet | February 24, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I am soo jealous. Not of you and Jenny but of Amber and Sarah. I want to see two of my favorite teachers from high school. (well, only Jenny was actually my teacher, you still taught me stuff though)
Posted by: Benji | February 25, 2009 at 08:29 AM
Well, I guess it's more of a girl thing. I have an idea: You and Jenny can hang out with Jill and I'll hang out with Gavin and Will (now attempting a rhyme scheme). And we'll all meet up for dinner in the city. Can't lose.
Posted by: Benji | February 25, 2009 at 08:33 AM
oh my gosh that hotel is un-real! wowee
Posted by: sensibly sassy | February 25, 2009 at 08:50 AM
Benji, I am all for a weekend getaway to Berkeley/San Francisco and I'm sure that Jen and Gavin are, too!
Posted by: Janet | February 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM
My husband barely appreciates the cool brown and blue bath towels I found that unexpectedly matched the shower curtain. I think gold knobs and chandeliers would have put him in a headspin.
Glad you enjoyed yourself! What a fun girly get-away.
Posted by: Jennifer | February 26, 2009 at 09:50 PM