If the previously undeleted countdown timer on my phone is any indication, it’s been about three months since we left for San Diego. It feels like a long time ago based on the summer we’ve had (compared to 2020) – also, it feels like this was just a few weeks ago. This vacation is likely one we’ll be talking about for the rest of our lives, but isn’t one that we’ll really want to remember.

If you hadn’t heard, I had a heart attack our second night there. I wrote a lot about it over on my personal blog, so go check it out for details. The tl;dr, if you don’t want to click, is I spent two days in the hospital after getting stents for a minorly blocked artery. Vacation changes when you spend the start of it in the hospital. Suffice to say, the rest of our time in San Diego was really about processing what happened and trying to have as “normal” a vacation as possible.

We stayed in the Mission Beach area, in a house we’ve previously rented right by Mission Bay. We stayed there about two months after Dom turned one and knew it was perfect for a week of not doing a whole lot (especially with COVID precautions). We did manage to visit the zoo a few days after I got out of the hospital, but we most certainly did not walk the entire park. We also managed two boat days with our boat membership at Freedom Boat Club. The weather was a bit chilly in May, if I’m honest. Maybe it had something to do with having a heart attack and being on like five new medications.

Oh and by chance we got to meet up with Miss Sarah, who was Dom’s nanny between Miss Ginny (went with us the first time) and Miss Emilia (went with us this time). In an odd twist of summertime fate, all three nannies have been with us in some fashion at this house. It also has the distinction of being the only place we’ve ever stayed at twice, ever. In many ways, it was good to have something familiar, given what happened while we were there. So, yeah, San Diego.

P.S. – We got to see the Seattle Mariners lose in another city… and I was the second MLB game attendee in the hospital that weekend with a heart attack!