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.

noms on wheels

so i have vacation on the brain... because, well, remember?  i live here:

this means i'll have lots to share about the trip over the next week.  i'm putting together a road trip mix so you can listen to some of the jams steve and i will be playing on our 13 hour drive south (though i hate to break it to you, it will not be a 13 hour mix).

we are leaving crazy early in the morning and are really trying to get through the nasty winter weather when the roads are quiet which means we'll need some tasty snacks in the car with us!  if you are planning on road tripping anytime soon here are a few things we are planning on packin' for snackin'!

1.  a big thermos of homemade frappucino!

we'll need caffeine, obviously, but those starbucks bottles are such a rip-off!  

1 cup extra strong black coffee cooled 

3/4 cup 2% milk cold

3 tbsp sugar (or however much to taste)

1/2 tbsp vanilla

combine shake and be awake!

2.  breakfast bagels

while sitting in a car, we will clearly need to carbo-load.  i'm picking us up at half dozen asiago cheese bagels from panera and keeping some onion chive cream cheese in the cooler!  yum and yummier!

3.  crusty baguette sandwiches

arugula, honey mustard, chicken, and muenster anyone?

here's a pro-tip: the best honey mustard your money can buy

4.  snackables:

pitted kalamata olives

and in case you mistook me for somebody classy:

fruit roll ups // gushers // fruit by the foot

doritos (cool ranch for steve, nacho cheese for me)

photo recap

 

my signed peter doig print broke the bank, but looks incredible in its frame.

steve created the most awesome chocolate-cinnamon sticks with the remaining trader joe's pizza dough.

i discovered the best delivery sandwich in town.

i got lunch delivered to work because it looks like this outside.

steve sent me a happy surprise picture of himself and bert while i was working.

and.... i'm only a lot obsessed with these sunglasses.