san diego!

this weekend i finally did it. i went to the beach! remember this post when i said i'd kill someone if i didn't go to the beach? well.... now everyone can sleep soundly at night knowing that i won't be killing them anytime soon.

sarah, brittni, and i left early on friday morning to drive down to san diego. it was so much fun. hi-lights of friday:
4 hours of sleep, rocking out to the biebs, dedicating songs to eachother (me, sarah, brittni), stopping in vegas to buy sun glasses and go to the kate spade outlet (GORGEOUS shoes. mmm......), the jesus billboard, giving chelsey's phone number to some guys in a passing car, abruptly stopping on the freeway, sarah's awesome defensive driving skills, eating fruit and hiding it, weird ordering kiosk at jack in the crack, brittni driving stick, buying discount tickets from the guy on a bike at the 7 eleven.

we got to san diego in the evening and decided that we wanted to go see the ocean. but we didn't know where to go. so we drove. and exited on a street that sounded like it might go by the ocean. we stopped at a park and got out to look at the ocean. we found a cat. named him fernando. found some dinosaurs. basked in the glory of the ocean and welcomed the humidity to our skin.

we decided to drive around some more and found the "historic downtown" of san diego. so we stopped there (after finding parking that was cheaper than $25) and ate dinner at a fancy italian resturant. it would have been nicer if the waitress cared about us. but i guess since we weren't drinking, she didn't care about us much.

we left and went to sarah's aunt's house. she was nice. like, super hostess nice. her cousin, ann, was also awesome. we talked for a bit, but we were so delirious from lack of sleep that we had to go to bed to save our sanity. we were super giggly before bed.

saturday morning i woke up to a bird i like to call a "car alarm bird." woah, it was noisy. we lounged around and ate some good breakfast. i still have bruises from trying to crack an egg on my head........ ow.
then we sea worlded it up!!
hi-lights of sea world: shamu (i guess), the intense elevator, feeding sea lions, sea lion show, cirque de la mer (BEST show!), watching the douche off, playing "sea world bingo", random dance parties!, eating food, feeding a sea gull our lunch, sitting in the splash zone for the dolphin show, three rides breaking down right before we got on, screaming like little girls on the atlantis rollercoaster, penguins, making brittni laugh so hard before our "helicopter" ride, baby baluga, missing the fireworks (stupid tree), riding the sky ride, leaving very tired......
we drove home after a fantastic day and fell alseep.

sunday morning we woke up, showered, and went to church by help of google maps and sarah's cousin's directions. i liked the non-utah singles ward experience. so refreshing..... we ate pizza bread (so cool) at church and then went back to change and go
to the beach!!!

we got to drive over this cool highway to coronado "island." we found parking, after a while of wandering, and finally got to put our feet on the amazingly warm and welcoming sand.
hi-light of the beach: the warmth of the water (compared to utah lakes...), wave diving, boogie boarding, catching sand dollars (which i guess were still alive....), swimming farther out than anyone else, the lifeguard coming out to see if we were okay (haha), sarah chasing the sea-gulls that swarmed around our towels, tasting like salt, getting sand up my pants, almost losing my pants, taking pictures.

it was amazing. i loved it. all of it. the sun, the wind, the sand, the water, the waves. it was just a great beach day. :)

we went home and chatted with sarah's aunt, uncle, and cousin for a while about korea and the english language. then we drifted off to sleep.

monday (happy 4th of July!), we woke up at 5 and drove home. there was no traffic. :) so we made good time.

LOVED this vacation. it was perfect. and awesome. and needed. i also love road trips with sarah and brittni. they're the perfect road trip buddies, in case anyone was wondering.

YAY!

(for the pictures, check out my other post. i put the photos on flikr. seemed easier.)