Food, Biking and Comedy - Day 39

Lunch took us several hours to find! We thought we might go to HooDad's in Point Loma, which is a great hamburger joint. But, the line was out the door. So, then, we set off WITHOUT a decent map to find Convoy Street where the Asian community of San Diego lives. I had looked up the directions to a highly-recommended restaurant (New Seoul Barbecue) but we got turned around. We eventually figured it out by some miracle of problem solving and looking at an inadequate tourist map. When we finally got there, ravenous at 1:30, having eating nothing all day, the restaurant was CLOSED! So, we took a chance on a nondescript-looking restaurant called Phoung Trang. Once we stopped inside we knew it was going to be an adventure. The place was filled with Vietnamese eating wonderful-looking food. We were among the very few non-Vietnamese. The waiter helped us to order. We had 'Beef in 7 courses' for two people. In the courses, we had to soak our rice wrappers, cook some slices of beef in vinegar and cook some beef slices in a skillet with butter and onions. We had a huge pile of vegetables to put into our rice wrappers - lettuce, basil, mint, cucumbers, carrots, pineapples. We had a wonderful beef, vermicelli soup, plus beef with edamame, beef rolled around spring onions etc etc. It was an exquisite food and an adventure.

From there, we drove to La Jolla to ride our meal off by biking. But, it was very crowded as people are out and about enjoying the lovely weather. So, the biking was pretty slow as we wound around the people and the cars. But, it was still nice to be out. We saw seals and seal pups on the beach.

Then, we BARELY made it to Horton Plaza because there was a lot of traffic and it was a Friday night. Triple Espresso was supposed to begin at 7:30 and we got out of the car at 7:28. We had no idea where the theater was in the mall, so we ran around and asked and, by some miracle, got there at a full run....Luckily, the show began 3 minutes late and we JUST made it. It was good, but not what we were looking for as something we could do with the Drama Club. The play was written by 3 guys who wanted a vehicle to showcase their particular talents - singing/song writing, physical comedy and magic. Two of the original writers are still in the show, which was written in 1996. The first act was a bit corny, but we both enjoyed the second act which picked up the pace and was just funnier.