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To start off our second full day in San Diego, I made cheese and onion omelettes and home fries for everyone. It was weird working in another person's kitchen for the first time in awhile. I've cooked meals at my parents' home and my sister's home, but it was the first time in Lady's sister's kitchen. No disasters though – everything turned out tasty. We were full and headed off to Kobey's Swap Meet, basically a large flea market open Friday through Sunday each week. $1 gets you in on the weekend (50¢ on Friday), but they also have half off coupons. It was oh so much fun for me being a lover of all things junky. We spent a couple of hours there and I took lots of photos on film. I've been taking fewer and fewer digital shots on this trip with each passing day, so there will be a lag in uploading shots from most of our adventures.

Our next stop was Old Town San Diego. It was interesting to see the start of California and how very different it is from the start of Philadelphia back east. There were people dressed up old school Western style and even a guy showing people how they used to gamble back in the day playing hi-lo with dice and beans to bet.

The big meal of the day was from Don Carlos, a hole in the wall Mexican spot in La Jolla. We ordered food to go and headed to the La Jolla Cove, home of the La Jolla harbor seals.

We found a spot atop the cliffs about half a mile from the cove and the seals. We did have our own wildlife though – little ground squirrels that would scamper right up to you expecting food. Those suckers didn't get their paws on any of my 5 rolled beef tacos under a mound of cheddar and guacamole. Those were the best tacos I've ever had in my life. Add to the flavor, the incredible view and it was perfect. If only the hot sauce was hotter.

After scarfing down our food and shooing away some more ground squirrels, we walked down to check out the curved pier and the harbor seals. We made our way down the not quite 3' wide pier to see 6 harbor seals playing in the shallow waters just off the beach. I took a bunch of shots on film of the seals including one pup which was especially adorable. Walking a little further down the beach, we saw a large rock with another 40+ seals sunning. It was incredible to see so many wild seals. It was the first time for me to see seals, let alone so many. I really wish I had my 80-200mm with me, but such is life. I got by with my 20mm, 50mm and 105mm. Take a look through the Friends of the Seals website – there's a fight to keep the seals at the cove.

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