My Surprise!

Let me preface this by saying I typed this a couple weeks ago but the pics wouldn't upload and I haven't been back since. I will post again later but wanted to put this up first.

So it's been a while since I posted and I have just been busy... Sooooo Tim had planned such a wonderful surprise for me two weeks ago. I felt sooo good getting ready and just full of anticipation. So it was Saturday morning two weeks ago and we woke up to hear the new of the earthquake in Chile. Living in So. California there was a tsunami warning mentioned as well as for Hawaii. We know now that the tides were high but nothing came of it. Then on top of the warning our weather was stormy and just pouring rain. So Tim was saying how the rain could cancel our plans. I was like okay we will make the best of it. He said go ahead and wear the dressy clothes in case it wasn't cancelled. Dressed and ready to go we headed off in the car. Tim gets a phone call and was very vague with whom ever he was talking to. He said it was off but we can make the best of it. As soon as he started heading south on the freeway I guessed we were driving to San Diego. He said that last year when we were there I commented on the beautiful Hyatt Hotel ( I have such a bad memory of things I say, so if I said it then I'm sure I would love it now) So we get to the hotel all dressed up at noon and nowhere to go. Our room wasn't ready so we headed the bar and had a glass of wine and watched Hawaii on CNN. Then Tim gets a text and picks up my hand and says ready to go? OMG, I knew it!!! He had such a twinkle in his eye and didn't seem soooo disappointed by the cancellation...well we walked to the front of the hotel as a limo pulls up to the curb. He opened the door and there sat our two great friends that happen to be our neighbors. What a great surprise!!! She was the one that took me shopping for the outfit I was wearing!!!! Geez, it felt great to be surpised by Tim and our friends. I haven't been in a limo since I was 16. So off we went to a casino for some gambling. We had fun playing the tables and then we came back to the hotel. Tim and I went to dinner and met up with our friends at the top of the Hyatt for a cocktail and a delicious dessert. So, really what was cancelled because of the weather was instead of taking the limo to the casino, we were going to take a helicopter to the casino and back. Tim was dissappointed that didn't work out thought I would think the limo was a let down. Nooo way...It was an awesome weekend. BTW, I really couldn't eat because I was so excited and I just had a hard time eating. On Sunday, we drove up the coast watched the huge crashing waves. So here are some pictures of our weekend. To end this post I really and truly happy that I had the lapband and am where I am today. I feel great, confident and I don't hate myself anymore. I am comfortable wearing clothes and not feeling like I am too fat to wear nice clothes. I don't beat myself up anymore. I am finally enjoying life and wanting to experience and embrace life.