Lunch And Dessert With Allan & Valerie

Emma was rearranging the eating utensil holders at a Thai restaurant in Hillcrest.

She liked her lemon water.

We met up with Allan and his girlfriend, Valerie, for lunch. Allan is a friend from Yokosuka who is currently on his 3rd year of pathology residency in Naval Hospital San Diego and Valerie is an accountant.

Our group picture.

After lunch, we headed over to Extraordinary Desserts that was highly recommended by Allan's colleagues and on our way there we saw a Geico skywriting/sky smoke ad. It was pretty cool!

This one was mine, Passion Fruit Pavlova, which mainly consisted of a meringue with passion fruit flavored custard inside topped with fresh fruits. It was very yummy!

This was Valerie's but I forgot the name. It was a chocolate cake with fresh raspberry and raspberry sauce. Emma had a bite and she seemed to have liked it.

Allan had the lemon cupcake.

Daddy had a brownie but I didn't tried it since mine was huge. In fact, he had to helped me with mine.

We all shared with her but she was more interested in playing with rocks they had in the patio area. Of course she was also playing with her new panda daddy got from the conference.

The 3 of us went to La Jolla beach just to check it out. It took us a good 20 minutes to find parking on a holiday weekend.

My baby was still hesitant when it came to walking on the beach barefooted.

So she pretty much stayed on the rock people-watching.

She was just taking in the beach scene.

Posing with mommy.