Brit's Birthday Bash!

For Brittany's birthday she wanted to go to the beach. I was responsible for planning the trip without her so that it would be a surprise. This was SO hard! I would find fun activities to do and could not share my excitement with her. Because I never have anything to do at work I had plenty of time to plan the trip. I spent weeks researching and creating an itinerary. It was so fun and made work time pass a lot quicker. I am struggling with things to do at work now that I don't have a trip to plan.

After weeks of planning the trip, the day finally came for us to leave. I was really nervous about the whole thing because Brit was not feeling well. She had thrown up the day before and still didn't feel well. But we still continued with our plans without even considering canceling the trip. We left on her Wednesday morning, her birthday. I had almost NO money until I got my paid on Friday so I had no idea how I was going to pay for everything, but we hit the road regardless of our setbacks. After about 50 miles into our trip we stopped at a gas station to go to the bathroom. At the gas station a man came up to us and informed us that Lil' Blue (Brit's car) needed air in one of its' tires and he offered to pump it up for us. We were grateful and headed over to his little work station to get some air. However, when he tried to put the air in the tire it was already full! After further investigation he then informed us that the tire was going to burst any minute and that we needed new tires! GREAT! So Brit spent $200 on tires (we should have flown). After the new tires were installed we continued our drive to "California." Brit thought we were going to drive all the way to Laguna Hills on Wednesday but she was pleasantly surprised with a stop in Las Vegas for the night. Thanks to my grandma's time share I was able to get cheap reservations at an amazing resort with 3 pools and a lazy river! We had so much fun swimming and floating around.

That night we hit the strip. It was not our greatest idea because the strip at night is pretty disgusting! We got offered weed by some 14 year old boy and their were drunkards all over the strip. But we loved the Bellagio Fountains and still had a great time despite the weirdys!

Thursday we woke up, went swimming at the resort again and then continued our trip to California. Before we left we stopped at my new favorite restaurant, Serendipity. It is the cutest little restaurant on the strip (we liked the strip a lot better in the day time). The food was delicious and the environment was way fun!


In California we stayed with a close friend's family. They were very nice and their house was in the perfect location from all the activities that I had planned. We spent a lot of time at the beach, body surfing and lying on the sand. It was really fun! I miss the beach so much!

We spent Saturday with Brittany's dad and family. We went to Coronado Island and took a fairy to downtown San Diego. We walked around, shopped, and goofed off. Her sisters are so cute and I love her dad and stepmother. It was a lot of fun!

I wish we had more time on our trip because neither of us were even close to ready to come back to Provo and back to our jobs. The long drive home on Sunday was just depressing! But I am doing my best to be grateful for my job despite the lack of work they have for me. I just got to hang in there until my next trip to the beach with my family for a reunion!