sarah's bachelorette weekend part 1

a couple of weeks ago i flew out to san diego to celebrate my sister, sarah's bachelorette party.  emily drove down from mountain view and me, renee, sarah h, and ashika flew to cali to hang in the pacific beach rental house sarah had booked for the weekend.  we had ridiculous quantities of fun at beaches, bars, and sarah and dave's stunning apartment in north park (where of course we all watched frozen while trying to get less hungover).

after the most nauseating turbulence i have ever experienced, and a temporary horror-inducing lie about having to land the plane in fort collins instead of denver where i had a connecting flight, i finally landed in san diego late friday night.  we loaded too many people into dave and sarah's hyundai (it was pretty hilarious) and after larding out animal style at in and out burger on friday night (sooo good), we woke up saturday and headed to coronado island for beaching and lunch.

 we ate lunch on coronado at this cafe called tartine, (isn't it cute??) a place where sarah had taken me and my parents last time i was in san diego.  it was even better than i remembered it being for lunch, though when sarah and emily ordered a lemon meringue tart for dessert, the meringue had some strange stabilizer in it, giving it more a texture to marshmallow fluff versus meringue... kinda plastic, not the #1 best, though the lemon curd was delicious.  my brie and ham baguette and cappucino were both excellent as well. 

we went to the del coronado hotel where we laid on the beach and i got a tan line, if a little pink on the nose.  i did not know this prior, but all of the beaches in california are public by law.  after getting pretty toasty in the 90 degree heat (now i know why there's fire there- you barely notice how hot it is because the air is so dry) we stopped up at the del bar for water and cocktails (a $16 del mule...ouch, but totally worth it).  it's been a long time since i've hung out on a beach with a bunch of friends, way too good of times!

after hanging on the sand (sadly i couldn't play in the water because apparently shaving my legs and putting them in sea water several hours later made them red and itchy... ew) we headed back to the beach house to clean up and get ready for the most delicious thai food i've ever had.

get ready for thai food, more food, cliff views, and drunk girls coming up in part 2.