Amazing Weekend!!!!!

So as most of you know i have decided to dedicate my life to being on the road while Riley is still in training. so this last weekend... well from Friday until Monday, i have now logged almost 2000 miles of ME driving... wow! so i  have spent more than a few hours on the road! i am now sitting at my in-laws house in St George... and for the first time in almost 5 months. i feel like i'm home.. i know that probably sounds crazy. but i mean, i stayed at my mom's house on a futon in there guest room, and everyone was more than a little anxious to get me out of there so they could return it to being the game room. and then i was at Zack's parents house. and they were AMAZING! but i was still staying in a room that was sarah's even though she's moved out. and they weren't mine or Riley's blood family, so i still felt like an intruder. then for the last 4 weeks i've been in hotel rooms, condo's and here and there for a night or two at a time. I am homeless.. AND IT FREAKIN SUCKS!!!

I am so ready for Riley to be done with training so i can actually settle in somewhere. if i knew for sure that we would be stationed at camp pendleton, i would move out there in a heartbeat. it would be alot easier than driving 6 or 7 hours each way to spend 45 hours with my soul mate. the love of my life! every time i'm with him, he reminds me EXACTLY why i fell in love with him in the first place. He is the most amazingly awesome person i've ever met!

friday night... I got to Camp Pendleton about 6:30 pm... i was expecting him to get liberty around 6, but Kat had taken my GPS so she could get to the base, so i had printed directions TAPED to my steering wheel. so it took me a bit longer than expected to get there. anyway, so my new friend Kaitlyn was also there waiting for Bravo Company platoon 2 to be released for weekend liberty. so i hopped in her car, and we killed time.. which consisted of driving up to there barracks a few times and spying! it was exciting, and nerve racking!

then around 8-ish we started seeing more boys in the barracks running around and popping out of windows to try and get cell signal to make their first texts of the weekend. we were sitting in Kaitlyns VW bug, and all of a sudden i saw him! i couldn't see his face. but i could tell from the way he was standing and was holding his cell. anyway so he called but our signal was terrible. i got out of the car and just stood there. and he saw me :) it was pitch black but he was like "SAV?! IS THAT YOU DOWN THERE?!" so he ran down and had me meet him by the stairs. and he's never run so fast to me in his life! gave me the HUGEST hug and had a massive grin! so of course first thing out of my mouth was "wow babe, you had a REALLY bad week didn't you?!"

anyway so we drove to san diego, got some in-n-out, and checked into the hampton inn.

Saturday!
we started the weekend off early. we were up by 4:30. got up, i threw my new hollister sweats on, with a tank and a zip up. Riley put his running shorts, and running shoes on.. and a shirt. and we hopped in the car. the goal was to find a beach with a pier and a boardwalk that Riley could run on. well... my GPS sucks at life, and could not find us a beach the life of it! we ended up at plenty of coasts but they were all on cliffs... WHAT THE CRAP! so FINALLY after rye wanted to stop at a donut shop on the coast we decided to ask the guy in there where a good beach would be. well bless his little heart, the little asian man did not speak a word of english except for donut terms... WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?! anyway a guy in there gave us directions. and we found our way... RIGHT as it started getting light. i brought my camera and we had some fun. p.s. none of these have been edited yet in any way..... so ya!

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so after that, we went back to the hotel, Riley went to the little gym, he came back and showered while i hurried and got ready. then we headed to sea world, being a Military Family (wow that still feels weird to say!) we got in for free. we didn't want to spend too long there because we still wanted alot of time left in the day to spend together. so we saw shamu, Riley got me a pearl, i got to pick the oyster and everything! i held a starfish... ok that's a lie, but i touched it! and we went to a few aquariums.

after sea world, we found a MUCH closer beach, and walked on the beach for about an hour. then on our way back up to the car we ran into a group of Riley's Marine buddies so we chatted with them for a bit, then headed back to the hotel to change for the evening. we were planning on doing dinner and a movie. but with it being a little later than we were hoping, we ended up going to chick-fil-a for dinner NEVER A BAD OPTION! then we went and saw "the bounty hunter" i REALLY liked it. Riley like it but didn't love it. probably cause we were both sooooo sleepy we were falling asleep towards the end. we went back to the hotel and pretty much passed out!

Sunday- got up, got breakfast, got Riley a haircut, then had to start driving BACK to Camp Pendleton. once we got back we were able to sit on the grass and have a mini picnic. Riley had a REALLY hard time saying goodbye this week. which made it sooo much harder for me i'm not going to say much about it, cause i am getting all teary eyed just thinking about it.

well i will quit writing, since i'm sure noone is STILL reading, since i just keep typing. but ya. it was an AMAZING weekend. and i'm going to bed now!

OH YA....... Cold Sores SUCK!!!!!