Trip to San Diego

Hello Everyone,

I hope all is well and I apologize for my tardiness on the blog, but school has started and so the summer days of tiempo libre (free time) have gone. Also, for this blog, you need to read it from the bottom up. I started putting the pictures in backwards and when I realized it I was already too far along to want to change it. So.....


The End

Take care and I hope you whether you are near or far from your family and friends you are finding the best in life.


The next day I head back to Honduras where 60 new junior high students and a new school year was waiting. It was great to have seen my family and friends even if it was only for a few days. I look forward to Christmas when I will be coming back again.



and here are my parents showing everyone how a married couple of 20+ years can still enjoy themselves.


Here are Brendan and Julie showing everyone how a newly married couple enjoys themselves.

We ate, talked and danced well into the night.

But now that the newly weds had arrived we could get the party started.

Here's the car Brendan and Julie arrived in...fitting for Brendan whose love of cars comes close to his love of Julie.... just kidding.



and a view overlooking the Pacific. Who couldn't enjoy a place like this?

with catered food...

I definitely enjoyed the reception. It was at a beautiful house in the San Diego hills.

And the knot has been tied. That-a-kid

My Dad commented how Brendan was confident as ever during the wedding, something, he admitted, he was not during his wedding to my mom. Brendan is the first of my close friends to get married. Mabye more will follow now that he has broken the ice.

And the beautiful bride with her father.

And so we got underway. Looking sharp Brendan.

They had a hired guitarist to set the mood. I want to be like this guy when I get older.

Here's Sean, Brendan's brother and best man, and me.

Like I said, the wedding was at the Encinitas Botanic Gardens and the day couldn't have been better.

But enough with history and on to new beginnings.

Here's Dad telling us how he remembers his grade school desk being like this one.

The next day, before the wedding, my parents and I visited Old Town in San Diego. Interesting stuff. Anyone who has gone through 4th grade in California knows that San Diego was a location of a Spanish mission. It is incredible to see how much Spanish influence is in the States, especially California.

Here are Brendan's very happy parents, Brian and Fran. It was a great night. Besides some great food I got to see lots of old friends that were also invited to the wedding. I was awared the honor of "farthest traveled" to the wedding.

Here are the couple, Brendan and Julie. They met in their third year of college at Cal Poly. Since Brendan and I were roommates, this is when I met Julie too. However, Brendan and I go all the way back to kindergarten.

The dinner was at a Mexican restaurant, which you might think ironic (traveling all the way from Honduras only to have Latin food again). Actually though, Mexican food is not Honduran food, nor Central American food for that matter. Mexican food, in my opinion, has much more flavor and is much better. So I was happy.

After the gardens Amy and Steve headed back to L.A. and it was time get ready for the wedding rehearsal dinner. Dad helped me get ready by getting the Honduran dust off my shoes. Thanks pops.

Here's my Dad and Amy checking out a "paper tree" which has super soft bark. When you push on it it is like pushing on a cushion. My parents, Amy and Steve, and one other couple my parents are friends with, all want to all live together when they retire. They have been talking about the type of living situation they would like. Over the years they have come up with some pretty crazy ideas (e.g. a yard full of lamas). This day they decided that the would make their shared house out of paper tree so that when they bump into the walls they won't hurt themselves. Good thinking....

And the Australia section.

The Gardens were interesting. The had sections of plants from different parts of the world. Here is the Africa section.

The next day Steve, Amy, my parents and I went to the Botanic Garden in Encinitas. This where Brendan's wedding would be the next day.

We celebrated my belated birthday with my parents and my godparents, Amy and Steve, who came down from L.A.


After that it was up to Encinitas, a little city just north of San Diego.

So Dad and I had to jump in to see what was happening. It was great.

Until we came along a beach where everyone was snorkeling and coming back raving about how many fish they were seeing. It turned out to be La Jolla Ecological Reserve, a protected water area where lots of fish and seals gather for people to swim with and observe.

We got to spend some time just wondering along the beach.

Here's Dad showing me the aircraft carriers across the bay at Coronado. He lived in San Diego for three years while in the Navy and had stories about when he went out on these floating cities.

Here's Mom and I on my first day in San Diego, Friday.

It was nice to see the Pacific which I have missed greatly since I left for Honduras.


What has Dan been up to lately? Well, much to my excitement, I recently I flew back to the States for my friend's wedding, Brendan, where I also got to see my parents. Here's a shot from the plane on my way to San Diego from Tegucigalpa.