In the midst of my midterms, we took the time to halt for a moment and celebrate our first anniversary. C arranged for us to spend the day and the night at the historic l'Auberge Del Mar. I had an exam in Operating Systems during the morning. As I walked out of the exam, around noon, we prepared ourselves to leave campus and C drove us to a secret (to me, at least) destination, which turned out be the neighbouring beach town of Del Mar. We had a room waiting for us at this old, atmospheric spa/resort and spent the whole afternoon doing nothing together. Had champaign, rested, went for a sushi snack on the terrace across the street, walked on the beach. We had reservations for dinner at J.Taylor's restaurant and it was succulent: We had Carlsbad & Blue Point Oysters, Cured Hamachi with organic greens, rack of Colorado Lamb with spiced pepper jam and smoked tomato-rosemary glacé, Duck with figs and russian potato gratin and warm Chocolate Volcano cake ...After dinner, we lay in the jacuzzi for an hour, what do you think ... It's off season, so we basically had the place for ourselves. The morning after, after a somptuous breakfast in our room we drove back to school and real life and all that. But, what a great break we got there!
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