Friday, July 31, 2009

Mr. and Mrs.

We're married!!!! CJ and I tied the knot on July 25, 2009. Our wedding was perfect! Thank you sooo much to everyone that helped out and made our day so special! Our photographer was amazing! She has a sneak peek of the pics on her website http://www.brookeashleyphotography.com/. Go to the blog page. I'm so excited to see the rest!

Anyways, we went on a little mini-moon afterwards, really just took the scenic route back to Eugene from Vegas. First we drove down to San Diego and stayed at my parents house for the night, just to save on hotels and get into Cali. Then we drove to Santa Barbara, and stayed at the cutest hotel I have ever seen! It's called the Hotel Oceano. It was seriously so cute! Here are a few pics:
Us in the courtyard
CJ relaxing in the cute room
We shopped around these cute boutique shops, went to the best Italian restaurant for dinner, then before we headed out the next day we biked around for a bit.

So then we drove to San Francisco. When I was at my dad's booking the hotels for the trip, I was under the impression that the Radisson was a nice hotel. I was totally wrong. When we walked into our room it smelled like urine or mildew or something disgusting. Didn't even have a mini fridge or anything like that. Not that I care about all the crap they want you to buy, but for what we paid I imagined it would be a lot nicer. It said that it was the only hotel actually on Fisherman's Wharf, which it was, but none of the rooms actually had a view of the wharf, or the ocean. Our room had a view of the Holiday Inn across the street. Oh, and on top of the room charge, we had to pay an additional $37.00 to park our car! So we had planned on going to a baseball game, but apparently San Fran is foggy and freezing this time of year, and I didn't have a sweatshirt, so we didn't go. We went to a restaurant to eat crab instead, knowing that crab has always made us happy. Well not this time. They cooked the outside of the crab in a buttery, more like greasy sauce that made it too hot to touch. The clam chowder didn't have a hint of clam flavor, just potato. So we went to bed grumpy.

The next day we decided to go to China Town, which was a lot more fun. We also hiked up 3 blocks of Lombard Street. That is the street that is famous for being super steep. So steep that cars have to drive down it at an angle. Here are a few pics from that:

Victory!!!


In the end it was the best week of my life! People say your wedding day should be the happiest day of your life, and mine totally was. It rained that day, which did turn out to be good luck! It was so great to spend so much time with my girlfriends and new family. Plus we topped it off with a fun little trip and we didn't want it to end! We are sad to be home, but excited to be married!!!