June 13 22:08

Sorry for the journal spam, but I have Internet for the first time in a week and I’ve been keeping a journal on my iPod.

We made it back to the US fine. No problems on our flight or in customs. Mel & Johnathan picked us up and got son food at the Lazy Dog after picking up Dan’s best man tux. I got a gardenburger and fries. Yey for a I’ll meal that doesn’t make me ill! And, I followed it with a soy chai latte that I’ve been dreaming of all week.

This morning I was up at 6 am yet again. I did some laundry and enjoyed some tea. Mel, Dan and I went to breakfast at 10 with Johnathan and his coworker. I ordered plain pancakes and received one gigantic one.

The three of us went on to Venice Beach. We go there every trip to visit a buddist who sells jewelry there. I got two new neckaces: a little jade Buddha and a really neat one that you have to wear 30 days taught at first for your energy. I can’t wear that one until after the wedding.

After Venice, Dan and I hit the road to get to Westlake Village. It took 2 hours to get there from Redondo Beach. We ran into family right in the lobby. After hellos, we checked in, showered and changed. At 5 we met out at the ceremony site for rehearsal. Dinner followed. It was really nice seeing everyone.

Tomorrow is a long day, starting with an early breakfast and the the wedding at 6. Dan has to be at his brother’s room at 2:45 to start the whole photos of getting ready stuff. I’ll be on my own to get ready and go down there, but it’s a 30 second walk from our room.

Night night!

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June 11 23:40

Felt fine today, so I think that oog was because I tried some rice dish that must have had meat juice in it. my main problem today is that the toilet paper here is killing me! I knownit’s tmi, but it’s like wiping your butt with notebook paper.

Today was cold! Cloudy all day and a cold wind. Where is the desert weather I was promised? The pool was a ghost town most of the day. A few brave souls were out there bundled under towels and blankets.

We were supposed to go zip-lining early in the morning, but we decided against it. I bet it would have been really cold and windy up there. I woke up at 6 am regardless. My body never switches off eastern time. I read and studied Spanish when Danny dozed. For most of the day we just read and enjoyed the sound of the ocean. I braved the balcony for a while wrapped up in a blanket.

When I finished my book, I repacked my suitcase. I am super anal about packing. Everything gets put in bags in my bag because I can’t stand everything to get jumbled.

After dinner, we took a cab to Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo. We got there at 7:30 and had to wait a while to get in to the main club. We got a table once they opened and settled in to wait for the live band. Two hours later, I was so ready to go, but Dan kept changing the time he said we’d wait till. The band came on at 10:30 and I wasn’t that excited and them. Maybe if I was drunk? Perhaps that is why they wait to go on… Thankfully, Danny was finally ready to go.

Now we are finally in bed bit I’m way too keyed up to sleep yet. Annoying, because I’m really tired. Danny has a bunch of drinks in him to help him sleep, so he’s already out.

We fly back to CA tomorrow afternoon.

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June 12 6:58

Good morning. I was driven out of bed by the fact that it feels like a slab of marble with sheets on it.

I a bundled up in a blanket on our balcony listening to the waves in one ear and my iPod in the other. the sky is a million times clearer this morning. Figures. We leave today.

I miss my puppies and my bed, butbit’s on to California now. We’ll have another night with Johnathan and Mel before we check in to the hotel where Danny’s brother is getting married.

I am looking forward to being reconnected with the outside world again. Dan has had the Internet on his phone with his international plan. I’ve had to leave my phone off. The hotel has internet in one of the bars for $3/15 minutes, but it’s on their computer. I did get close enough to someone else’s wireless out by the pool one day, but it required a password, room number and $14.95. Dang!

So, I’ve been typing little diary entries into the notes program of my iPod touch. When I get back on the Internet, I should be able to email them to Live Journal. My journal will have to wait, as I can’t copy and paste on here.

Hopefully our flight and customs goes as smoothly as it did on our way in.

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June 12 11:35

We made it to the airport. We had a note last night saying the shuttle we had paid for before the trip couldn’t take us (some taxi union thing). We didn’t have much cash and the front desk said a taxi would cost $70! Luckily, the taxis are all vans, and they pack them full of people and charge $15 per person. We didn’t have enough, but the taxi coordinator said there was an ATM there. So we made it.

Dan had 200 pesos ($20) left from the airport ATM once we were through security, so he gave it to me to buy a souvenir. I picked out a painted sea turtle figurine for my collection for 198 pesos and came back to show him. He was upset I hadn’t left change and the we’d now have something to declare. Um..? No big deal. He had just decided while I was in the shop that he needed something for his headache and I wasn’t phsycic enough to leave chan in pesos. I gave him my US cash so be could get a bloody Mary and chips ( his runner up to excedrine).

There is wireless here, but like all airports, I can’t get my iPod to go anywhere on it.

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