labor day: 2010 (part 2)

Last minute doug found out that he was able to get monday off!! hooray! this gave us great reason to hurry our our butts up and make the quick drive to orange county. I was able to switch around some matix days with his dad, since it was his turn to have him for labor day. Everything just worked out really nicely. So off to california we went. We made great timing, spent the night in brea (at the parents house), then headed straight down to san diego for the semi-annual stewart family vacation! (every memorial day and labor day) This year, the family only consisted of mom, dad, david, doug (and me) so they were pretty excited to have us join them! We went to the USS Midway, The Mormon Battalion, and of course the guys did some surfing. (the stewarts are BIG time into surfing)

{yes, that would be a surf board chillin over our heads, nbd.}

now let me elaborate a little bit about this surfing experience. we head to a beach known as pipes. (doug's mom informed me that there are pipes that run down the side of the mountain, and thats where it got it's name.) beach talk. i have no idea of anything beach related. i love the beach, dont get me wrong. but there are so many things that i am so clueless about. like why i was coerced into sitting on the beach bundled up in three towels while i read a book (eat pray love -to be exact) if i was cold OUT of the water, im sure they were cold IN the water. and no matter what anyone says...i understand that wet suits help...but they sure dont make it  THAT much warmer. anyways...after about 20 min...up comes doug out of the water HOPPING on one foot. haha. it was kind of funny. but then we realized that he was in a lot of pain. yep, he got stung by a STINGRAY! it's amazing that the teeny tiniest little cut could cause so much pain. I tried forever to get him to let me pee on the cut (I swear that's what i've heard helps the pain..he wouldnt let me. i'm kinda glad. I'm sure his mother would have been completely mortified if i had 'popped a squat' and peed on her sons leg in broad daylight, and even worse right in front of her very eyes) anyways...he finally worked up the courage to hop back to the truck and back to the hotel. after some fellow surfers advice and a little research we found out that soaking the wound in the hottest water humanly possible is the only real cure...and that urine is helpful to JELLYFISH stings, not stingrays...how could i have confused the two? stupid me! haha. anyways..after about an hour of doug running the shower and creating a sauna in the room, he felt a lot better. Good enough to go to dinner and walk normal again! yay! we conquered the stingray! but that little sting is still oozing blood...THREE DAYS LATER. i dont think doug will be surfing on a sunday again, at least not in the near future. 

The rest of the trip consisted of a little detour to the rainbow outlet in san clemente where dougie bought me my first pair.

i've never felt that any flip flop was worth $50. he assured me they are. good thing we went to the warehouse so they were only $36. SCORE (still too much in my eyes...but he paid so whatevs)

then we met up for lunch with my besties, zach and steph in irvine

followed by visiting the rest of the stewart clan, and of course meeting the brand newest addition (and the main reason for our trip)...

Mark James Stewart

born 9-02-10 

(yep, 90210 like the zip code...totally on accident...totally lucky kid)

man, we had a  

busy busy busy 

but 

fun fun fun 

labor day!!