san diego, a wedding, and some photo recovery.

This Labor Day weekend was one of the best I've ever had – I got to go home! Not home home but home. Since I fully plan on moving to SD when we're ready to settle down and buy a house, I feel it's safe to call it home. It's especially safe to call it home since there's family there... and home is where the heart is, right?

We made the trek to the amazing west coast to witness Dave's little brother, Michael, get married to his girlfriend of years, Rebecca. Thursday night, we went straight from the airport to Dave and Buster's for a bachelor party of sorts. Though it wasn't a wild and crazy night... and it had a girl (me) in tow... it was a lot of fun.

The ceremony was held on Friday at the San Diego Court House. If you've never seen this building, look it up! Gorgeous with amazing views. There was a sailboat festival on the bay adding to the beauty of it all. The reception was held in the backyard at home. The transformation of that backyard by adding lights and tables was amazing. I've always loved that backyard for how lush and green it is. But adding the tables and lights... amazing.

We tried to pack in as much as we could on Saturday and Sunday. Corona del Mar, Board N Brew, Sweetwater Marsh, In N Out (animal style fries, I've missed you so!), sushi, family time, legit Mexican food (Dave got brain and tongue), seeing friends, and whatever else we could do/get that we can't out here in DC.

It was tough to say "see ya soon" to SD since we're not sure when we'll be able to go back, but it was great to get away and just enjoy with no responsibilities and no real plans. Plus, you can't beat the coast line and weather!

As for the photo recovery part of the post title... I flubbed and deleted all of the photos on my memory card after Dave put some of the photos on his parents' computer. In my head, they were all downloaded onto my computer. In reality, just a portion of the photos from the weekend were saved. Thankfully, I found a program that allowed me to recover ALL of my photos. Unfortunately, I was not able to recover the video file from the actual ceremony. Dave found a program that worked for that, but for some reason it only recovered a portion of the video. Still working on trying to save that little piece of the puzzle. In case it ever happens to you, PhotoRec is free and works on all systems. It says it can recover .avi files, which is what my video is, but it didn't work. Either way, it recovered all of my photos!

Update: Thankfully we put the wedding stuff on dropbox and the video was there! Thank goodness for technology.