Another hot day...at the Del

I miss last weeks' colder weather. It was a few degrees hotter today than it was yesterday, but who could tell? I only had two things planned for the day - oil change and chiro appt. I had four hours to kill between appts, so I decided to go to Coronado, check out the Hotel Del. I took me about an hour to get to the hotel (as usual traffic on Orange Ave was jam packed) and find decent street parking. By the time I finally parked my car my jeans felt like they were glued to my leather seats!

It was nice to walk around the Del. A lot has changed in the past 16 years. The outdoor restaurant I used to work at has a different name. As I walked by the area that I used to work at, I recognized two of the bus boys and one of the waiters - amazingly they all look the same, just a little older. The tennis courts are gone. All the bushes outside the back parking lot are now gone. I think they even moved the Windsor Cottage closer to the main part of the hotel. I headed inside to the shops to escape the heat outside. As I walked back to my car, melting in the heat, I remembered some interesting events that happened while I worked at the Del - an episode of Baywatch was filmed there (I think there was supposed to be a ghost in the story line), the then Governor of Arkansas, yes, President Clinton, dined at my restaurant, and I got to bring him some dinner rolls!, and the summer nights were beautiful the first year I worked there since a volcano in the Philippines had erupted. It seemed like a life time ago that I had worked there.

By the time I got home after my chiro appt I was completely wiped out, but I'm glad I decided to be a tourist and walk around the Del on a hot summer day.