Monday, February 22, 2010

Lunch, a Movie, and Dinner

Today we went to Coronado Island for lunch at the Hotel del Coronado. Coronado Island is not really an island but a peninsula. But one must get there by bridge, big bridge, big, big, big bridge. The hotel is a National Historic built in 1877. The Victorian structure is gorgeous and has a rich history of movie making and hosting writers, stars and dignitaries. After lunch we took a quick tour of Old Town, which is a State Historic Park, located in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego. The park preserves and recreates the old town of the city.
We returned to the Gas Lamp district to see Shutter Island which is an adaptation of theDennis Lehane novel. We are always interested in Lehane's work because it is Boston based. Scorsese does a beautiful job of this genre film; Hitchcock abounds. For dinner we returned to a restaurant, Blue Point, we visited 5 years ago to see if their calamari was as good as we remembered. Meh.