After three more weeks, I've got hundreds more pictures and some fun new memories.
I spent Memorial Day weekend in SoCal (yep, I'm racking up many miles on my little Mazda!) My roommate made the drive with me, as her boyfriend was visiting LA the same weekend! It was kinda nice to spend those hours chatting with someone instead of trying to find a Pandora station to entertain me for five hours!
On Sunday, a small group of us trekked out to Joshua Tree National Park for some outdoor rock climbing. It was mine and Kevin's first time top roping on real rock and not slippery little fake rocks at our respective climbing gyms! Thankfully, we had some experienced friends with us, and it was a BLAST!! I will not deny that I was not excited to look down the first time I made it up the wall, but after that first time, I felt much less nervous :-) Overall, it was an awesome experience, and I can't wait to do it again soon!
SInce I had a weekend to travel in the opposite direction and check out some new sights the following weekend, Megan and I headed to Yosemite! What an amazing place! It was absolutely gorgeous. We hiked up the Mist Trail to Vernal and Nevada Falls, which was quite the workout, but definitely worth it for the awe-inspiring views! The mist from the falls was both refreshing and COLD at the same time. Thankfully, we were smarties about our hike, but one hiker was not so lucky when he took a walk into the river above the waterfall and sadly was swept away. Coincidentally, this tragic accident was witnessed by a couple of our friends who were also in Yosemite that weekend (we didn't know until we both posted pictures from our respective trips..) 
We met some really nice people while camping, which worked out for us since we weren't able to reserve a second night's stay at our site because everything was booked! The campers next to us let us move our tent a few feet over onto their site, and we shared a fire that night and got to know them a little bit (2 from Italy, 1 from France, 1 from San Fran, all there for a weekend of climbing!) One more campsite over, there was a big family there for a week, celebrating a birthday and 
enjoying each other's company. They were STOCKED with enough wood and kindle to give some to us (thanks!) and also offered us lots of food and drink too! In return, Megan offered them some fantastic occupational therapy advice regarding a tendonitis issue ;-)
The next weekend brought me back to San Diego, one of my favorite places in California :-) Thanks, Beth, for letting Kevin and I stay in your awesome new house! We definitely missed hanging out with Mike, since he was out to sea, but it was really great to spend some time with B again! Color me Rad was a super fun 5k, though it was actually only 2.5 miles so... more like a 4.02k. After an awesome nap, a failed trip to REI (the garage sale was the NEXT day, whoops!), and a yummo smoothie, Ali arrived for a ~12 hour visit (YAY!!!) and we all headed out to dinner and downtown to hang out for a late-in-the-week night out (Kevin's birthday week celebration!) 
Amazing weekend to see some Maryland faces (even though one of them is a transplant like me!) and of course, always a fun time with the beau. 
Bring on the next weekend of fun! 
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