John and I had a bomb dinner tonight at Searsucker. It was unbelievably good. I got an amazing apple pear martini, John and I split clams as an appetizer, and for our entrees I got an artichoke heart dish, while John got scallops. Thought I'd post some pics real quick before bed!
This week has been exciting and eventful to say the least, and just a wee bit stressful. John and I made some big moves in regards to our housing! We have been keeping our eye on an apartment called AVA Cortez Hill in downtown San Diego. Check out the website, the complex is super sweet - AMAZING gym, gorgeous pool, hangout areas, young crowd, balconies in every apartment, etc. We've been waiting for an apartment to come up that was within our price range, but as time elapsed, we realized that our price range was pretty unrealistic for living in downtown San Diego. Soooo, when a penthouse studio became available for a bit more than our comfortable price range, we decided to just go for it! We put down our deposit yesterday and are moving in on August 10! We are going to be living on the 15th floor - TOP FLOOR PENTHOUSE STUDIO!! YES! The above pic is supposedly our future view! We are soooo excited! As soon as we stopped debating about whether or not it was too expensive and just went for it and put down the deposit, our attitudes went from stressed to PUMPED! We figured everything's been falling right into place for us so far, so why not go with our gut for this, too. We'll see what happens, but starting August 10, John and I will be living large for a year in our newly named "Penthouse Penthouse" apartment (those of you who watch Workaholics will know the reference).
In other news, I had my first two events at DT this week on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was super stressful to have two events back to back, but everything worked out and the events were a smashing success! Tuesday's event was a part of San Diego tech week, called "Tech Crawl" where two groups of thirty people walked from tech office to tech office in downtown San Diego, and at each stop they were given a short talk, tour, and a taster of a San Diego Micro brew. At DT though, we like to do things differently. Go above and beyond so people remember us. People are definitely going to remember us from our event! Upon entering our building, the crawlers were given small little sombreros, offered a full beer, and tequila shots with limes and salt. Oh, and to top it all off, we even had a Mariachi band! The event was amazing, everyone had such a great time, and I heard "this is the best stop on the crawl!!" dozens of times! Huge success and so much fun!
Wednesday's event was a bit more low-key, but still fun and a lot of prep work. As another one of San Diego Tech Week's events, about one-hundred people joined us at our office for something called Ignite. A forum where speakers talk for only five minutes, and have to cater their talk to coincide with a slideshow of 20 slides that transition every 15 seconds. It's quite a challenge for speakers and interesting to watch for the audience. There were some really great talks, and Wednesday was another great success. 
This was John’s second week of work, and so far he really
likes it. He’s getting the hang of what
he’ll be doing, learning a lot, and settling in. Aside from being another busy week at work,
John and I did several fun things to keep us busy outside of work. 
Thursday we both had off for 4th of July, and
spent the day relaxing in the San Diego sunshine. We heard the traffic for the fireworks is
always insane, so John and I decided to walk from our apartment to the bay to
watch the fireworks. It wasn’t too far
of a walk (a little over five miles round trip), so we figured it’d be better
than driving in gridlocked traffic. The
fireworks in the bay were so amazing, they don’t call it the “Big Bay Boom” for
nothing. Fireworks are launched off of four
different barges around the bay, so you can easily see the fireworks from
pretty much anywhere along the shoreline.
We camped out in a park right along the bay, and had a great view of one
of the barges that was just offshore from the park. The video below shows all four barges of
fireworks going off at the finale. They
were such amazing fireworks; we had a blast!
Today I had a fun lunch with the three other girls that I work with. We went to a delicious place called Zanzibar's and had some fun drinks and good food. On the way to the restaurant for lunch, we passed by a man and his pet pig, Hamilton. I took a picture with him! His fur was so prickly, but I thought he was cute! 
On Sunday John and I had a blast in the park again! We packed a picnic, some cards, and a few towels, spread out in the grass, and had a fabulous afternoon in the park soaking up the sun's delightful rays and enjoying one another's company! The weather here is continually gorgeous, it has still rained only once since we got here on April 20th! Isn't that wild!? We definitely can not complain about the weather EVER while we're living here in San Diego!
To celebrate our two June birthdays, I planned a piñata surprise as a test run for my idea. My boss and I went to a totally legit Mexican piñata store, bought the best and biggest Darth Vader piñata I've ever seen for $17 (!!! only $17), and surprised the team with it. Everyone loved it, everybody was able to participate, and morale was totally enforced! Thought I'd post some pics to show you the great time we had! The pic on the left is us doing yoga at DT yesterday after work. Jealous of my new job yet? I'm just livin' the dream :)
