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So Saturday was Dana and Matt's wedding! Before the wedding, mom and I were determined to find more than one or two geocaches, or looking for one and not finding it (caching in such a busy place is hard! Especially when you have to figure out where to park). We ended up finding ELEVEN!! Heck yeahh. I think that's my third best day of caching (my second is 16 I think and my best is 20). That was satisfying lol. After that we got ready for the wedding. It was pretty much the best wedding ever..Dana looked perfect and gorgeous and just bursting with happiness. When the officiator was reading his notes both of them stood there looking at each other bursting with love and happiness. It was so awesome when they were finally pronounced man and wife!! They were made for each other. <3 After that was happy hour or something, or "standing around eating and talking" lol. Mom and I snuck up to our room to get a book since that's neither of our fortes lol. After that was dinner..I met Matt's mom and stepdad, the ones that live in Payson. None of us can get over how dad bought a house in the same town Matt's parents live haha. There was also a photobooth (fun! I'm gonna hang those pics on my fridge :D) and dancing. Mom and I hung back at first (we're the worst dancers ever, and shy lol) but when Uptown Funk came on (a great dancing song!) we decided to go up there. Might as well let loose and have fun! We might have been flailing more than dancing LOL, but whatever. Poor Dana was getting tired though (it was fun dancing with her too! She saw the rare side of me lol). Mom and I left around 11 and Dana said the party wound down around midnight. The Best Man and Maid of Honor made great speeches too, which were 100% true. It was a great night!! So happy they're finally married :D

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Yesterday before I left Dana and I went to IHOP. Her cat said bye to me by mauling my finger and making it bleed like crazy. :P She drove me to the airport, said goodbye (luckily it wasn't a long, awkward and painful goodbye haha) and I checked in and waited for my flight. I almost missed it! That part of the terminal was CRAZY..they were announcing like 3 or 4 flights at once and I never heard them announce mine. A lady went up and asked if it was the Seattle flight and the gate agent said yes! I would have missed it if it hadn't been for her! I was looking for Catalina Island after we took off even though I figured I was on the wrong side. Well suddenly I look down and there it was!! We flew right over the top of it! I saw the airport landing strip that my uncle flew dad and I to some years back. I was hard to get a picture but I managed to get one of Avalon! That made me SO happy haha. I always loved looking for and seeing Catalina Island from the plane as a kid. The flight was 2 or 3 hours I think

We landed in Seattle and I saw the gate I arrived at was the same one I was departing from (or so I thought :P). So I was like..cool! I had plenty of time till my next flight so I had an early dinner and sat at my gate reading. I was wondering why it was so deserted. The gate agent eventually asked me "aren't you gonna go on your flight?" (I had talked to her earlier) and I was like "huh?" and she told me it had moved to another gate and terminal! I had to take a train thingy to get there. Luckily I still had time and I got there fine. *phew* Haha. We boarded and I was annoyed at myself cause I chose a seat at the left side of the plane and I thought the glaciers were at the right side. And plus there was a SCREAMING, crying, very talkative baby and a squirming talkative kid next to me that smelled like poop so I was like ASDFGHJKLTYFDFYU. And we had to wait at the gate for awhile cause they had to confirm people's pets or something. I was SO relieved when we took off haha. It was REALLY dark outside and couldn't see anything besides city lights and a little of the landforms they illuminated so I wouldn't have been able to see any glaciers anyway. Too bad since it was supposed to be clear. I bet if the bright full moon was out I would have been able to see something. I was going CRAZY at the end of the flight cause of the stupid kids! It was quite possibly one of the most painful flights I've ever been on. Ugh. Mom picked me up (it was -7 outside haha) and drove me home. I was supposed to work today but mom let me sleep in and had to take Ryan to the hospital cause he was having heart problems. Eep..I hope he's ok

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Today's trivia: Despite popular mythology, there were 20 survivors of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo

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Yesterday we got In-N-Out for lunch and drove to Long Beach where the boat was (like 1 1/2 hours away). We got our tickets and waited outside in the nice sun till it was time to board. I think it takes an hour or so to get to Catalina too. We got off at Avalon..I think there were some new buildings. Though I hadn't been there since 2003 (whoa 6 years ago..) so there probably would have been new things. This was my 4th trip to Catalina. We walked around and looked in shops. I got a shirt, two magnets and a keychain thingy. We decided to have dinner early since a lot of things were closing early and the only restaurant we could find that was open was a Mexican restaurant haha (I've had a lot of Mexican food this week :P). The food really wasn't very good. When we left it was basically dark..and it was FREEZING. I bought a hoodie at a shop and put my fleece jacket over it and that did help. Then the Christmas lights turned on..they were cool! Palm trees with Christmas lights..nice. :P We looked in more shops and then just sat by the ocean till it was time to leave. We had to wait awhile to board in the FREEZING COLD..eesh. After we got back to the mainland we drove back to the apartment and had popcorn and did more surveys together. I have pics but I'll post them when I get back to Alaska

Aw..I have to leave today. That went rather fast. It was a good trip though hehe. Hopefully I can get a seat on the side with the glaciers even though it'll be dark and possibly cloudy. Hopefully I'll see *something* though

After Dana got off work we all went to have dinner at Las Olas..it's right by the ocean. It was CRAZY windy..I got sand on my face and Dana got sand in her hair. :P The ocean was pretty choppy too. The dinner was pretty good..except for like two restaurants Fairbanks doesn't have good Mexican food haha. The guys are funny and weird when they're all together. :P After dropping off Dylan and Curran Dana and I did surveys together! It was fun haha..I've been wanting to do it with her for awhile

Today we're going to Catalina Island!! Woo!

( surveys done with dana :D )

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