Feb 7, 2009No harm doneSo I and the Mr just returned from a trip to Coronado Island near San Diego. It was just time to flee February in the desert. Our trip to S.D. was lovely for a time. The weather for the first 2 1/2 days was nearly hot. Our hotel (Glorietta Bay Inn--the Spreckles Mansion on Coronado) is very nice, within walking distance of everything, including the hop on/hop off trolley, the beach and great restaurants. (read: bars)But on our way to a whale watching tour on Thursday we were driving along a lovely boulevard all by ourselves in our little rented car and an older gentleman failed to yield on his way to his golf game and just bashed us. No one was hurt, our airbags didn't even deploy, but it really wrecked both cars. We were in a Chevy Cobalt; he in a Toyota Corolla. His car, which t-boned ours, sustained serious front end damage and it seemed to have wet itself all over the road. I was glad he wasn't in anything bigger; it surely would have hit my beloved right in the window. As it was, my sweetie had to crawl over the gear shift and out of the passenger door. Our car had a broken axle and destroyed quarter panel, so we got to wait for the police to come twice (he was called away on a priority the minute he got to us), then wait again for the tow truck to haul us and our box of vehicle parts back to the airport for a replacement. Our new friend, Mr. Vasquez waited for his wife to get out of bed and get put together and come fetch him. I truly hope he's as okay as he seemed to be. He is surely well into his 70's. We were in a lovely neighborhood with herons flying overhead and shade and a view, so the waiting wasn't too bad.Needless to say, we missed the whale watching. We hopped back on the trolley instead and made another tour of Balboa Park museums which we'd missed the day before. Then the rain came. It wasn't too hard to come home yesterday!