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Last Thursday, I flew down to San Diego to visit Dave. All day Thursday, I couldn't wait to get there. Work seemed to take forever but eventually it came time for me to go to the airport. Tam, my roommate, dropped me off. I walked in to see which gate I will be at and notice that my 8:20 pm flight was delayed until 10:20 pm. I immediately called Tam and had her pick me up. After a trip to McDonald's and watching some tv, we went back to the airport. By this point, my flight had gone from being delayed till 10:20 to being delayed till 10:50 to finally leaving at 10:30.

The flight itself was terrible. All I wanted to do was be in San Diego with Dave, but instead I was on a delayed flight with some of the loudest people on earth and was inflicted with some sort of allergy. By the end of the flight, my sinuses had become so inflamed that the decent caused me the worst pain I've ever felt on a plane. The right side of my face hurt so badly. I looked it up online after my flight and I think I was experiencing aerosinitus. Well, after hours of waiting, I finally arrived in San Diego at 12:05 am. Luckily, that ride was the only bad thing to happen to me the entire weekend. Dave met me at the airport, took me to his folk's place, and I fell asleep. I was so exhausted.

The next morning, Dave and I grabbed sandwiches at Board & Brew and then drove to Fashion Valley Mall to buy a gift for Holly and Steven at Crate and Barrel. We ended up getting a few of the cheapest items instead of getting one large item. Then Dave and I went to Tiffany's to pick up a necklace he purchased for me. This necklace. It's the Elsa Peretti Open Heart Lariat necklace.

After Tiffany's, we went to Macy's where I bought Dave a cream-colored dress shirt so that we wouldn't clash when standing next to each other at the wedding.

When we finished at the mall, we made a quick stop at AAA so that Dave could pick up some maps for his host families in Panamá and bought wedding wrapping paper, and then we went to the beach!

First stop, 18th street in Del Mar. This is the beach right next to where Dave lives. I love it here. Every time I visit him, this is where we go. Mostly because it's so close to his place.

After sitting at the beach for a little, we decided to go to the beach in Encinitas. We went to D Street and Moonlight Beach. So beautiful. I think I actually prefer it to Del Mar, which is good seeing as how I hope to live in Encinitas one day.

We stayed at the beach for most of the day, and then visited Dave's uncle, who owns an apartment with a gorgeous view of the beach. After visiting his uncle, we went to Barnes and Noble to check out some Panamá travel books and then went to see the new movie Adventureland. It was actually a really good movie. I recommend it to all of you!

After the movie, we went to Dave's house where his mom had made dinner. It was a chili dish and it was so good. We stayed in the rest of the night... I fell asleep pretty early.

Saturday was the day of the wedding. We got ready and drove up to the hotel in Lake Forest and then went to the wedding at the Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club. It was a really short ceremony, at least compared to Filipino weddings, and had an open bar. Lots of alcohol with little food made cocktail hour at lot of fun. There were two tables of band people and we were all set at the back of the reception area. We all realized very early on that we were the loudest people at the reception, which was the reason we were at the back.

View from Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club

Me and Nikki

Jed and Kuya Thomas

Dave and Me

The night and the weekend itself were both a lot of fun, but I was glad to fly back to Davis this morning. The only thing I was sad about was not seeing Dave for another... 2 weeks.