Massive breakfast and the Battery Park

Our only whole day in San Diego started with a light rain which had a negative affect on our plans for the day. We had planned to spend an easy chilling day at the beach but now we had to make other plans. Breakfast was not included in our room but we thought that it’d cost only $6.75 to have a buffet style breakfast at the hotel café. We shortly realized after walking in that that price was only the starting price for a simple omelet and everything else would cost a lot more, so we decided not to eat there. After a quick internet search we found a often flattered café at the Mission Beach, called Kono’s Café. We jumped into the car and drove there. It was pretty obvious that the place is popular as the queue was long and the café full of people having breakfast. We all took a ‘Big Breakfast #1’ and it truly was big! None of us could eat it all and we kind of felt a bit sick after leaving the café after eating so much bacon, eggs, potatoes and pancakes :)

After breakfast we just drove around Mission beach and run in into a short of ladies run. We pulled over to watch it for a while before returning to the hotel to develop new plans for the day.. None of us wanted to do anything exhausting so we just hopped again into the Grand Cherokee and drove to another beach side called Ocean Beach. On the south end of the peninsula was located an old US Navy battery park which served during the WWII. It’s open for visitors today and for a cheap $5 per vehicle admission fee so it was quite cheap for us. It was interesting to see how the most western Battery Park after Pearl Harbor had operated. There’s also a Naval base in San Diego that is still active and during the visit in the battery park we saw a couple of Army planes and a few helicopters flying by. Next to the Battery Park there was also a huge cemetery honoring the men who have served USA in the world wars and in the latter wars. The time had gone quickly and after leaving the cemetery the sun already slowly going down. We wanted to catch a look at the sunset, especially as the sky was clearing up. We drove to Sunset Cliffs which is a popular spot in San Diego to watch sunsets and the view was really awesome from there, although the weather wasn’t the best possible we got some nice pictures :)

In the evening we visited a big shopping mall right next to our hotel. Our main purpose was just to find dinner there, in which we also succeeded but we also found some clothes to buy. I had to buy a pair of new jeans as the Levis 511 cost only $40 and I’ve got only one pair of jeans here with me. By the way, we ate at Panda Express that is a Chinese style food chain here. The food was good but the weird thing was that although it’s sort of Chinese they didn’t even offer chopsticks anywhere.. Now it's packing time once again and not for the last time as it's Vegas time! We've quite a long drive in front of us tomorrow as the distance from Diego to Vegas is around 330 miles so we're trying to leave Diego right after waking up  to have the possibility to spend the whole evening in Las Vegas.