Keeping with my resolution to go on as many outings as possible this summer, some friends and I decided to take an impromptu trip to San Diego, simply because one of them had never seen a polar bear. We packed our bags and left at the crack of dawn, spent the day of reliving childhood dreams of swimming with dolphins and playing with penguins (which sadly never came to fruition), and watching a polar bear blissfully roll around on its back, then ended the day with a meal in Little Italy and took in the view from the rooftop bar of our hotel.