Digaudio Wedding In Dominican Republic

June 12th Charlie and I traveled to the Dominican Republic to witness two of our dear friends getting married!  A few years ago when we lived in Oceanside, they came down to visit and got engaged at Sunset Cliffs.  So we find these two to be pretty spectacular people and it was really an honor to not only be invited to celebrate their wedding but for Rosalie to ask me to be in her wedding as well.

Charlie and I had never been to DR! It is a pretty popular destination for people on the Northeast because it is relatively quick and inexpensive to go.  We paid for of an adults only all inclusive (food and drink) part of the hotel.  Also something we were newbies at.

It was a bit of a treck for us, we had to do an overnight to JFK and then from their fly into Punta Cana, it was about 15 hours for us.  It was cool to go to JFK because we ended up being on the same flight with two other couples were pretty close with who happened to have rooms all next to one another.  Worked out pretty well

We made it to our hotel and man was it awesome!!!  Until we arrived Charlie and I were complaining a little about the long travel, missing work and school, the short period of time we were going for, and immediately all of that diminished when we got there, like instantly!  I have never experienced this but we were being waited on hand and foot.  I guess you get what you pay for?  Right when we got off the bus we were taken to a separate registration area where we were served cocktails in the AC (huge +) then while we were waiting for information on our rooms we were led to another area with platters of food and more champagne bottles then I could count.

Despite Anthony and Steve's face they were both as excited as Charlie..

photo credit Maggie

After we stuffed our faces for a little we were informed the rooms wouldn't be ready until the check in time.  We were offered a tour of the premises which had 4 restaurants a buffet, 6? or so bars spread out, two swim up bars, a coffee/ice cream shop, volleyball, pools, cabanas, water sports and shall i go on? We were all in awe!  None of us are use to luxury or fancy traveling but man this was it!  Needless to say since we had time to kill we went straight to the pool and swim up bar.  We got pina coladas, played some ping pong and that was the beginning of our vacation.

Eventually we made it to our divine rooms with a stocked bar, bottle of champagne, in room jacuzzi, patio, and straight up luxury.

This was the entrance of the hotel.

We were pretty excited about this junior suite..

We actually go a picture together!

Helped to walk into a bottle of champagne.

Again, our sun salutations!

The next morning we decided to give room service a try and we were pleasantly surprised.

We did lots of lounging and swimming on this trip!  It was so fun to see so many of our friends from NY, it was definitely an added bonus of the trip.  

This is where we did a lot of our pool lounging

photo by Marino

This was the beach just next to the pool photo above!

photo by Cameron

photo by Cameron

The boys did a fishing trip so all the girls decided we had to do something also besides, sleep, float and drink.  I don't have any pictures other then this but we did a banana boat which is tied behind a speed boat and you basically just try and hold on.  

The night before the wedding Drew and Rosalie threw a white party where we were all told to wear white!  This was a few hours into the party.

All the bridesmaids

Bridesmaids + Hillier

Then soon enough it was time for the big day.

Rosalie looked stunning! 

The Newlyweds

So happy we were there to celebrate with you guys!  I can't wait for the rest of the pictures

Groomsmen

Happy Couple!

 Waiting around for the ceremony to start

The girls were sweating everywhere! It was so hot, in fact my camera couldn't handle the heat and started fogging up!  So that was the end of the pictures before the ceremony actually started

Bridesmaids and Bride celebrating.  We ended the night with a lot of dancing, great food, laughter and an especially tear jerking slide show (probably because they even included Johnson in it) about their engagement and time in California.  It was really touching, thank you for that Rosalie and Drew!

Thank you again to the Digaudios for letting us be there to share such a special event!

Trip to the Zoo & A Visit from Haws

Well I knew this was coming, once I started school everything has fallen to the way side and been put on a back burner, blogging included!  This is my attempt at catching up!

Around Memorial day Charlie agreed to humor me and go to the San Diego Zoo with me.  It's been years since I went and so I decided to buy zoo passes for the year.  It probably wasn't the best idea to go on Memorial Day weekend because it added an extra few mile walk to find parking but we did end up having a great time.

That weekend we also had a visit from Lane, Julie and Beckham!  They were visiting Lane's sister who just had a baby.  They met us in Pacific Beach and we walked to the pier then went to town for some pizza. It was fun visiting Beckham without all the other kids around, we got to see his personality a little bit more.  He was pretty happy and content!  I was worrying about having to baby proof the house a bit but kids these days, he just played on my cell  phone haha.  Not doing too much of course but knew exactly what he wanted to play with.

Haws Family

Julie & Charlie

Beckham was pretty cute..

Showing off..

Great seeing you guys!  Hope it happens again soon :) 

Camping in San Onofre

Last weekend it was our friend Matt's 30th birthday.  To celebrate him and his girlfriend Alyssa coordinated a camping trip to San O!  It was only a night but it was a great time.

A few days before Saturday and even Saturday morning it was actually rainy here.  I wasn't sure about how the weather would treat us but we weren't too phased by it.  When we got up there the sun came out and it got hot!  After setting up camp, naturally, it was time to head to the beach.

Alyssa & the Birthday Boy

It turned out to be a pretty nice beach day.  A little lounging, bocce ball, and surf.

I attempted to paddle out but the waves were so consistent that I just got pounded and couldn't even paddle out! Hey I gave it a shot.  But these two couldn't get enough. 

Party Wave.

Charlie wasn't crazy about my shots but I took them so I am posting them :)

This was one of the better ones. 

No shame :)

Always a nice walk in San Diego

Buena vista

The next morning we had a huge breakfast compliments of Matt's friend Corey.  It was a delicious veggie egg scramble with sausage.  

Coincidentally every pair of people who came brought like 8 sausages.  It was really funny.  We had  a plethora of it! Probably can't eat it for a month now we had so much..

Our camping community.

It was only one night but it was good times with good people.  We had lots of laughs, food, smores, campfires and drinks.  How could you go wrong?

Until next time San O!

photocred to Alyssa on this one.