here is a quick recap of our awesome New Years weekend!
kate, kyle, and frank got down to huntington on friday morning at 3:30am. i went into work at 5am for a few hours, then came home and went back to sleep with everyone until almost 1pm. it felt amazing :)
we got ready for the day and headed to panera bread for lunch and discussed new years resolutions over our sandwiches.
after that, we took a drove down the coast, through newport beach, laguna and dana point. we stopped somewhere in dana point to watch the sunset and take pictures.
kye and frank.
brother.
epic move!
asian pose, haha.
true love.
epic pose.
^kyle loves kate.
after that, we drove back up the coast and watched some it's always sunny before heading to dinner in downtown huntington beach. we went to this cool little restaurant, 2nd floor, that nicole and i found when she was here back in november. it was mostly dark in the restaurant with all kinds of cool art on the walls. plus, free new years hats on the table! what could be better!
Manly! :)
^best friend :)
after dinner, we attempted to go to downtown disney to watch fireworks and as soon as we saw the line of cars wrapped around the block, we vetoed that idea and decided to go bowling instead.
look at that form.
how he bowled...
...aaaaand, the outcome.
we played 2 games, watched the ball drop on TV and headed home around 1am. after busting out the snacks, we watched a few more episodes of it's always sunny before falling asleep.
new years day, kate and i got up early and went to target while the guys slept. once they woke up, we got ready for the day, grabbed some lunch at this pizza place
then headed out to hollywood for the evening.
hollywood was a lot of fun. i've been there a few times, but never at night, so it was cool to see everything all lit up and alive. we browsed the touristy shops,
looked at the stars on the walk of fame,
and took pictures with celebrities ;)
it was an awesome night cruising the strip with mah frieeeends.
we got home fairly early and spent hours watching brian regan and equals 3 videos on youtube, before finally putting in how i met your mother and falling asleep.
today, i think, was my favorite day. we all woke up early and got breakfast at alta's coffee house in newport beach which has the best vanilla chai's in the WORLD.
after we had breakfast, we took the hour drive up to venice beach, where it immediately started pouring. i adore being in beach towns when it's raining, so i was a happy camper :)
we browsed all the little shops and i got the cutest little shoes and this neat hat and the guys got these hand-carved miniature guitars. we laughed and talked and people-watched in the rain until there was nothing left to see.
we walked back to the car where my friends and brother hugged me good-bye and started the drive back up to sacramento.
i left venice feeling very full. i had an amazing Christmas with my family and an awesome New Years weekend with 3 of my favorite people. driving home in the rain today, i thanked God for a good start to this new year, for friends and family. for delicious chai tea lattes and rainy days in beach towns and silly pictures that i'll cherish forever. i realized that my life is so full of love and laughter and i pray that i never take those things for granted. because really, what more could i possibly need?
yup, 2011 is certainly off to a great start. God is so very good and i can't wait to see what's next.
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