Blogging from San Diego!

I made it to San Diego! I was a lot more nervous about the plane ride than I thought I would be. Did not enjoy taking off! The last time I was on a plane was 6 or 7 years ago, so I didn't really remember what it's like. We hit some turbulence near the end of the flight, but it wasn't too horrible. I hope I don't ever have to go through major turbulence!

At the airport, I had a breakfast burrito from Burrito Beach. Nutritionally, this was a pretty awful choice. 657 calories and 31 grams of fat, according to their website!!! *However*...this was the only thing I ate all day. We arrived at the airport at around 10:30 a.m., didn't board till 12:15 p.m., and didn't get to California till 4 p.m. PST. So really, splitting it across both my breakfast and lunch wasn't that awful. You don't have many options at the airport for healthy eating!

When we arrived at the hotel, I was scared that I already messed up something with this business trip. A few months ago, we booked 6 hotel rooms because we weren't sure who would all be coming from the company. On Thursday my boss asked me to cancel all but 4 of the rooms since that's all we needed. I verified that we had 6 room confirmations, so I canceled 2.

When we arrived at the hotel, they told us we only had 3 booked. In my head, I started panicking. Were there only 5 rooms originally?! Did I cancel one too many? Seriously, if I screwed something up already, I'm just going home! My boss pulled up all the confirmation numbers and proved the hotel wrong. It was interesting how the hotel manager insisted she had no extra rooms available, then once we had our proof she was able to magically come up with something!

Here is the view from my room's private balcony:

Woo hoo!!!

I must say, I did a terrible job of packing clothes for this trip. I thought it was going to be way warmer and I have mostly tees and tank tops, a hooded sweatshirt, and a jacket. Well the sun and 65 degrees feel MUCH better than Chicago's weather right now, I definitely should have packed some more sweaters!!!! There is a mall nearby the hotel...might have to hit that up tomorrow ; )

For dinner we all went to a Hawaiian restaurant in the hotel. There was nothing to choose from on the menu besides steak and fish. I often insist that I hate seafood. My boss said I should really try the mahi mahi, it's a good starter fish. Since the menu only had about 8 items on it (I'm not a huge fan of steak), I reluctantly ordered the macadamia nut crusted mahi mahi.

DELICIOUS!!!! As you can see from the photo, I ate almost all of it! It was pretty much like chicken, but more moist and juicy. Didn't have a fishy taste to it at all.

After dinner, my boss and I (she is a huge workout fanatic) stopped by the hotel's 24 hour fitness center. It's awesome!!!!! There is a ton of cardio equipment and several of the Life Time fitness machines that I use at my gym. I'm really excited that I can keep up with my workouts on this trip. There isn't much else to do at night anyway!

Tomorrow my good friend Greg is driving down from Los Angeles to meet me out here. We're going to lunch and the San Diego zoo. Can't wait! I will take lots of pictures!

****

Update: Just got done with my run, which is pretty insane considering it's almost 1 a.m. Chicago time! But I managed to run 3 miles in about 33 minutes on the treadmill - nice after my loooooooong day! : )

Taking a much needed shower and going to sleep in the nice fluffy hotel bed! Goodnight!