WEEKEND IN SAN DIEGO
What a fabulous weekend! Derek, Katie Miller, Josh and I all drove to San Diego this last weekend. What an adventure! Derek has a good friend Di that was getting married in La Jolla so we went to go celebrate the occasion.
Started the late night drive thursday night
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| me and my best friend :) |
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| Me and my #1 |
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| Just driving... |
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| Katie and Josh |
We ended up stopping in Vegas, and then continued on to California. We ended up staying at the Sheraton in La Jolla, CA. Really beautiful and fun!
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| hanging out by the pool |
That night we went to downtown San Diego, I think its called Gaslamp District. There are lots of cute shops and great places to eat. We walked around and went to this mexican place.
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| kinda funny pictures in the background... |
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| pretty fun place |
The next day Derek had to go practice to be the minister. I will explain more later. Then we went to the Temple that afternoon. So amazing inside. I loved it.
THE BEACH!
That night we went to go eat with Derek's friends but we went to the beach right before. I forgot how much I love the beach!
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| Oh you know, Derek the football star :) |
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| Our friend Josh has an amazing camera and is so good at taking pictures, I love this one |
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| Derek in deep thought... |
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| Katie and Josh |
DEREK THE MINISTER
Okay so I didnt know this but Derek's friend Di asked him a while ago if he would be the officiator at his wedding when he got married. They got married a year ago in court because everyone from China couldn't get to America. So a year later they got married in California. And Derek "married them".
He did such a great job I was so proud of him. I'll admit I was a little nervous for him.
We just googled some classic wedding vows and he went to work.
It was in La Valencia - 4 star hotel in La Jolla
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| I learned that these boys love each other, D really looks up to Derek. D came straight from China and then was really good friends with Derek when he was in Arizona. Derek is the spiritual friend that's how he got his gig :) |
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| What a good looking minister :) He did so great! |
What a trip!
Alli!! you wanna hear the weirdest thing? that EXACT same thing happened with mike when we were dating! he was the "minister" at one of his really good friends weddings and it was awesome! they had gotten married for real a couple months before but no one new except their parents, so everyone at the wedding kept coming up to me and saying, "oh, your boyfriend is the minister?" it was so funny....anyway, so fun...and so stoked for you!! he seems awesome!
ReplyDeletethanks nanc! That is so funny and random...hope your doing great!
ReplyDeleteyou two are the cutest couple. hope to see your lovely faces again soon. Love the SD pics!
ReplyDeleteI checked back in on your blog today and got caught up. I was shocked to see that Derek was the MINISTER at D's wedding!! Somehow I missed that bit of information! How hilarious--and cool! He does look cute up there--the Nielson boys are handsome. :) See you soon.
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