September 7, 2007
Mini-vacation on Mission Bay
We needed to get away. But we couldn't full ON get away. The next best thing is to go to a luau here in town! We ended up getting a pretty cool deal. The view from the room was off da hook!! The view of Mission Bay knocked my socks off. Even as I type this I am reliving some of the vertigo I had looking over our 12th floor balcony. Yeesh.
The luau was hella cool. One annoying bit was, we couldn't have any of the coconut chicken from the kid's buffet table. What kinda crap is that?! If you couldn't offer it on the adult menu, at least let the adults get some. Dude. I'm sure the damned kahlua pig cost a helluva lot more than that chicken!!
Here's another example of it pays to be nice to people, especially in the hospitality industry. This guy comes by and gets our plates and I look up, greet him, say thanks and look him in the eye while doing so. He asks what we're drinking and I told him. He reaches into his pocket and goes, here are coupons for another 2. Hellz yea! The thing is though, they were only good for the mai tais which were watered crap. So we decided to save the coupons and use them at the end night. So right before the bar closed I went up to get our drinks and the girl behind the bar was alread cleaning up. She made us 2 fresh and STRONG mai tai's!!! Some how Kiki's 5'3-exactly-ass finishes it before we get back to the room. How I dunno. haha!
We sat in our room with all the lights off looking out over Mission Bay. It was glorious night. From our room, the Coronado Bridge was at 12 o'clock. The downtown SD skyline was at 10 o'clock. There was a warm breeze blowing in ocean at 3 o'clock. And we just sat there, no tv, minimal conversation, taking it all in.
It was a very, very good mini-vacation.
