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My Valentine’s Weekend ♥ At La Valencia Hotel
So I told you guys I would have a Valentine this year and I had to let you know that I kept my word 
Perfect Valentine’s weekend filled with yummy food, champagne, candy and pretty sunsets… I had such a fun weekend! I stayed in La Jolla at the La Valencia Hotel and I had a blast exploring the La Jolla tide pools, caves, coves, seals and amazing hotel! My parents had their wedding reception at this hotel so I was excited to see the area. I thought I’d share a few of the awesome pics. (Thanks Mom for the camera, I know you want the credit!)
Next time you need a new, fun place to stay in San Diego definitely check out La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla. Old school hotel but still so nice, plus it’s PINK! There are also so many cute little shops and restaurants to walk around to around the hotel. One restaurant we loved was Azul La Jolla. Azul is owned by the same people that own the Brigatine and Miguel’s in case those are 2 of your faves
Instead of ordering actual entrees we ordered yummy champagne cocktails and a million side orders. Perfect meal. In need of an awesome date location? This place was super fun and delicious. Just avoid the waitress with the pony tail, she was mean. She was probably mean because I asked for sweet champagne and when she brought me dry, gross champagne I sent it back 
oopsie.
Anyway, La Jolla definitely is somewhere you can go and explore tons of new things. The seals are really fun to watch, the waves were huge this weekend, the sunsets were pretty and pink, and like I said tons of bars, restaurants and shops to visit. Next date night try La Jolla!
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Ice Skating At The Hotel Del in Coronado, CA
So if you don’t already know, Hotel Del is a huge fancy hotel here in San Diego, CA. It is located in Coronado and is a great spot for dates, so me and my man, aka Erin, headed out there to check out their beach front ice skating rink! So cute and sounded like so much fun, however, I have a confession… Erin & I totally went with the intentions of ice skating, buttttt by the time we validated our parking (At the bar of course) it was already 8:20 and it closed at 9:00, so we decided against it.
We weren’t paying $25 bucks to skate on a 2 inch rink for 30 minutes. We were both happy with our choice, it was soooo soooo cold out and the ice looked miserable plus the rink was tiny. If you are looking to just ice skate I would not suggest Coronado, DT is probably better. But, if you want to skate for a bit and run around and take cute pictures then it is worth the drive.
I decided to give you the pros and cons of the Coronado rink.
Cons: * $25 dollars for 2 hours, no one would skate for 2 hours so…. kinda annoying price wise.
* Smalllll rink, maybe holds 50 people. You can also almost see the wood coming through the rink, but we did go late at night before they closed, could be better during the day.
Pros:
* Would be perfect during the day or at sunset time because it is right on the beach, cuteee pics. Night time was not nearly as cool, I would go at around 5pm, ice skate, take pics during day light, then stick around for dinner and night time pictures around with all the pretty lights.
* Hotel Del is an amazing venue on its own. We took so many cute pictures! The entire hotel is decorated so cute!
* Tons of restaurants and bars to make an entire night of it. Overall we had so much fun just walking around, taking Christmas tree pictures and watching people eat it on the ice while we sipped on glasses of champagne. Definitely recommend dinner or drinks at the Hotel Del at this time of year, its so festive and soooo fun… and try ice skating if you’re up for it
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How prettttty is this! I can’t believe I live in such an amazing city. Us San Diegan’s are really spoiled.
Sorry the pictures are fuzzy, Erin’s camera died so the I-Phone had to do.
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Happy Holidays!
The holidays are officially here! Enjoy your weekend with family & friends! Just wanted to say Happy Holidays to all my favorite people in the world
And on a side note, there are tons of Holiday things to do here in San Diego! I am going to go ice skating in Coronado with friends, I can’t wait! Here are a few other things that seem really fun if you are looking for things/ dates to do!
1. Ice Skating at Hotel Del Coronado- Coronado is sooo cute during Christmas time, a must do date. Sorry boys, lace up the skates and have fun on this ice rink, hey at least it has an ocean view!
2. Poinsettia Bowl Battle of the Bands- Tons of high school and college bands will march the streets of Downtown San Diego to perform.
3. Del Mar Holiday of Lights- What is more fun than seeing all the cute holiday lights!? The Del Mar Fair is the largest animated, drive thru light show on the West Coast! If you really want to annoy your boyfriend, take him on a holiday hay ride klasjdsakdl.
4. The world’s largest LEGO Christmas Tree will be shining at LEGOLAND and one lucky guest will get to light the tree each day. They will also being shooting off fireworks each evening between Christmas and New Years.
5. Keep your eye out when driving along I-5 for the largest Christmas tree in Southern California at Sea World. They too have a number of events to celebrate the holidays.
6. The most picturesque holiday light display will arguably be at the San Diego Botanic Gardens in Encinitas. Over 100,000 lights will glow throughout the gardens. Starting on December 10th, the Gardens will be open until 9PM and will feature a different live music performance each evening.
I will add more options as I find them but that is a great start
Wednesday Fun!? Sure Sidebar!
Sidebar, located Downtown San Diego, has been around for a hot minute or two, but with its recent remodel has definitely upgrade itself. I never was a huge fan of the place, but they did a few things right, hired hotter staff (Brookie & Saddaf to name a few ) and remodeled the entire inside. Last night I rolled out with Erin who works at Hard Rock here, we always have the BEST time. We really do cause so much trouble together but I like it.
Sidebar is known for being a blast on Wednesday nights, and to be honest, the only place worth getting dolled up for on a random week night here in SD. So if you are in town, looking for the best place to hit up on a Wednesday, check it out you will have a great time guaranteed.
My only complaint was it was FREEZING outside but roasting inside. I loveeee heat but it was a bit too hot so bring something warm for outside but removable inside! It felt like a Summer day in there so my long sleeves were a nightmare. Oh another bonus, how could I possibly forget… CIROS’ is attached to this place. Ciro’s for those of you who don’t know is the yumyumuyummiest pizza in San Diego. I am not sure who Erin’s friend was that took us there but he got us a whole pizza hahaha we were in fat girl heaven.
Oh and the Chargers were there too poppin bottles like there was no tomorrow, in case you needed another reason why Sidebar is so kewl hey at least they were out on a Wednesday and not a Saturday right? Overall a fab night!
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Crazy Past Few Days…
I have been so MIA, sorry. Wild week. 2 crazy car incidents, broken timing belt causing in brake failure on the freeway…cool. Then today a drunk driver fell asleep on a hill, didn’t put his car’s E brake on, and rolled into traffic on Friars Road. Who’s car was 2 seconds away from smashing into his? You guessed it. Mine. Someone lock me up. Fashion show is tomorrow. More fashion shows and X-mas party with sissy on Sunday, and hopefully back to normal on Monday. Sorry I know you all miss me Be back soon, hope to see you tomorrow!!!
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You’re Invited! Summer Styles for Winter Warmth
This December 5th 2009, I am co-hosting a fabulous fashion show in Del Mar, CA, Summer Styles for Winter Warmth! It is going to be so much fun I am so excited! We have soooo many cute lines that will be featured, tons of free giveaways, the San Diego Charger Girls hanging out taking pics, drink & food specials, etc. etc… all for free! Check out the flyer below to see some of the featured lines!
Million Dollar Tan will be bronzing our babes with their fab new Sunless Tanning Products
Jaymes Swimwear will be a featured line, that’s right girls rockin the runway in bikinis
King Kouture- A super fab clothing boutique in Del Mar, showcasing one of a kind unique going out tops and dresses
Hollywood Million Denim- Featured on celebs such as Kim Kardashian and the OC Housewives, fab denim line!
Blak Prince- Vintage rocker jewelry line seen on celebs like Audrina & Paris Hilton
Much more to come, still planning to make it as fun as possible. Stop by and say hi
We will be offering VIP seating to vendors, media, friends and family so email me asap to reserve your seat!
I messed up my OWN email in the video and I kinda start off like a total spazzz but oh well… email me any questions amandajo@helloamanda.com
Kasanova After Dark @ SE Hotel
This Friday me and all my friends are working at the Kasanova After Dark party! If you don’t have plans yet, come check this out.
Where: SE Hotel DT SD
When: 8pm-2am
Open Bar? Yep, come early, 8-9pm hosted Vodka Bar
Tickets? Yep $20 before $40 at the door! Buy ‘em now
Click below to purchase! See you there, we’ll be dressed up as kitties
Wonderland in LA!
Last weekend I went up to LA to visit two of my girl friends Kayla & Arika. We decided to hit up Wonderland, a new LA hot spot. Apparently the entire club is Alice and Wonderland theme, I couldn’t wait to see more considering growing up my ALL time fave movie was Alice and Wonderland. I would wake up on my own at 5am each day and put the movie in all by myself and watch it over and over. Needless to say, I was excited to visit this club to see its “Alice and Wonderland” theme. Some of you old school Hollywood clubbers may recognize this new club as once being Concord, which was hot about five years ago. After that it was a club called Shag.
Anyway…
First things first. DO not try going here unless you know someone. For once in my life I had a semi nervous breakdown trying to get in. The guy didn’t care who we were, probably because there were 908 other floozies trying to get in. When I go out, I never see large groups of super cute girls, but this club’s front was definitely packed with pretty cute groups of girls. Great now what… Some guy in a leather jacket grabbed my hand as if he was going to take me in with him, but I wasn’t about to abandon my brat pack. Turns out he was in some band, oh well, I am not into band guys that much anyway.
Plus, Arika’s friend had a table for his birthday, so I didn’t need him anyway ;P
International Wanna Be Kardashians hahaskjd
Eventually the guy let us in, we had to wait maybe 3 minutes, not too bad. Once we were inside we found the table and let the fun begin. I really liked the venue, it was roomy but not too big and I really liked that part of the roof was raised, so fresh air came through the club. Nothing is worse than a hot, sweaty night club. The entire club is decorated with playing cards, pink lighting, flowers, cool paintings, just like Alice and Wonderland! I loveeeed it. We popped some Dom, had some Dom popped on us, bounced over to another friends table like good bottle rats do, and danced the night away.
The only celebrities we saw were singers Ally & Aj (Her name is Amanda Joy, close to mine!) 
Overall a fun night and a great venue to check out if you know someone that can get you in!
1835 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028
