4 Obvious Reminders For MLB Opening Day

MLB Opening Day. My favorite day of the year <3

There’s a few different “Opening Day” celebrations happening this year. The first is the officially official Opening Day of 2014 which actually happened a week ago when the DBacks played against the Dodgers in Australia. The second is Opening Night which is this Sunday, March 30th, Padres v. Dodgers at Petco Park…the game I’ll be attending :] The third is Opening Day which is Monday, March 31st. The last "Opening Day" is your respective team’s Home Opener which might happen Opening Night/Day orrrr you might have to wait at least 3 games for their away series to finish up before they head home and have their Home Opener. Regardless of what Opening Day you’ll be attending, baseball season is starting and that’s a wonderful thing. So there’s some things you should know for that first home game of the year…

BUT FIRST! Let’s start with a small font disclaimer. I might not be totally qualified on advising of things to know for Opening Day. Even though my friends and I have been to first home game of the season at Petco Park for the last (at least) 4 years…I wasn’t totally “there” ifyouknowwhatimean. #toodrunktofunction. Also...these suggestions are based on opening day and busy games at Petco Park. Some suggestions might totally apply to your local stadium, others won’t. Sorry ‘bout it.

Tickets. 
Do you have any? If you’re planning on going to the game, I’d suggest getting some. At this point, it might be a little too late for some of you because Opening Day might be sold out. That’s the case with the Padres…Opening Night sold out about a month ago, so anyone looking for face value tickets is kind of SOL. The remaining options are overpriced Stubhub, unknown third party ticket sites, sketchy Craigslist, or scalpers. If you find a sweet deal, awesome! You can totally keep reading. If not, and you don’t have tickets, bookmark this for next year when you plan ahead! If you don't have tickets but still want in on the action, head to a bar near the stadium and watch it on tv! You'll most likely be among others who failed in getting a ticket having just as much fun! 

Parking. 
I haven’t had much trouble with this, but I know how much of a pain in the ass it can be. For starters, consider traffic. Leave with enough time to either totally avoid traffic altogether, or budget enough time to be okay with be moving at a crawl…or slower and maybe miss some of the game. Everyone and their mom goes to Opening Day, and since everyone is headed to the same area, the roads are gonna get backed up. Also, because everyone is going to the same area, everyone is probably going to be parking in the same area too. Don't get stuck without a parking spot! If you can, buy parking passes in advance. That way you know you've got a guaranteed spot no matter how late you leave and how much traffic you sit in. You don't want to spend 40 minutes looking for parking half a mile away and pay $40.  

Transportation. 
How are you getting to the game? And home from the game? Alive? I hope so! The most important point with this is to make sure you've got a sober driver. To and from the game. If everyone wants to party, look into public transportation or hiring a driver! 3 years ago my friends and I took the train and trolley to Opening Day. From what I can remember, it was kind of a blast. We were able to bring booze on the train, party on the way down, and had reliable transportation! If you gave your limo driver the night off, download an app (Uber/Lyft...whatever) and have someone pick you up! Or book a night at a hotel in the area and walk/cab it. The other thing to keep in mind with transportation is to make sure you think about traffic. If you're anything like me, you'd rather be an hour early than 5 minutes late! You don't want to leave home/work too late, get stuck in backed up rush hour and game day traffic, and miss the first pitch!

Pregame. 
Load up a truck with some tailgate necessities: booze, food, bbq, tables, corn hole, etc. Head to the stadium early and party before game time. Why? A) Getting to the area early enough to tailgate means you've most likely avoided backed up traffic and have a better chance at being on time to the game! B) If you're there early, that means parking lots aren't crowded yet and you've got a better shot at getting a spot! C) $15 bottle of Fireball for everyoneeee beats 2 $8 shots of Fireball at the stadium/bars. D) PARTY! Just make sure to drink responsibly. And if you don't, hopefully someone is keeping an eye out for you making sure you're safe! Thanks friends for helping me with that last year!)

Our Plan.
Season Ticket Crew+1 are headed to Opening Night. The game is at 5:00-ish, but we're headed down at 10:00 for some brunch. Followed by some bar hopping for sangria!. Followed by some tailgating. Followed by the game. Followed by...work Monday morning. Hopefully we make it out alive!

Is anyone going to Opening Night/Day or your Home Opener? What are your plans for the day? Let me know!

Also, can I just mention how excited I am to be co-hosting Fan Friday this week? Other than my love for baseball,  I'm kind of obsessed with Sarah over at Venus Trapped In Mars. I kind of love sports a lot. So when I started blogging, and reading blogs, my main search was for other bloggers like me who love sports too...with no luck. Until my friend Kayyyyyy did a guest post for Sarah and the rest is history! Because of her Fan Friday link up, I've been able to find so many other sports loving bloggers like myself! And I love it! 

TL;DR: I love sports. I'm obsessed with Sarah, her blog, and Fan Friday. Thanks for letting me co-host!

If you're sharing anything baseball related today, make sure you link-up!

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Man Crush Monday: Zac Efron

First of all, thank you all so much for reading last week’s post and having such nice things to say about it/me. I was overwhelmed by the number of people that reached out through blog comments, facebook message, twitter, and text. Knowing that so many people are behind me totally motivates me to keep my butt moving!

Now, let’s get today’s post started. It’s time for another man crush Monday. Why? Because there’s this feature in the behinds the scenes settings/stats of blogs that tells you what people search for when they find your blog. The thing that gets people to mine…man crush Monday. It beats all of the other searched by a landslide. Soooo let’s give people more of what they want, hot guys!

Today’s man crush Monday is Zac Efron. I’ve been in love with him for approx. 6 years. I’ve obsessed over the HSM movies, stalked him in LA, and met him at a late night tv show.

He’s been getting tons of heat lately for allegedly using drugs and being in and out of rehab. While that’s not cool…we’re here to focus on his hotness, not drugs. Here’s some fairly recent Efron, enjoy!

He is wearing a shirt in all of these photos. And I did that on purpose. Why? Because it’s cold outside right now…and didn’t find it appropriate to share shirtless photos. Also, we need to be reminded of how beautiful his face is without the distraction of a ripped torso. None of these images are mine…and were ripped from different folders off this site. Have a bomb.com Monday everyone!

Dear Me

Last fan Friday, I promised I wouldn't write about attending a baseball game...so I'm switching things up.

I came across an article a couple of weeks ago where 12 stars (Andy Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Abby Wambach, Jeff Gordon, and more) write letters to themselves as young athletes and thought it was an interesting read. As a Yankees fan, I feel the need to be against anything and everything that relates to the Red Sox, but out of all the letters...David Ortiz's was my favorite! I love his focus on education. I decided I would do this for myself!

Below is my letter to 17 year old Marty, in my last months of senior year and personally had a rocking soccer season. I thought I'd be a shoe-in for the softball team and didn't want to bother myself with trying out.

16 year old softball Marty

Dear Marty,

You’re not hot shit. Don’t think you’re too good to try out for the varsity softball team senior year by milking and exaggerating the small cold you have. If you do…you don’t make the team. Work hard from the get go so you don’t have to deal with sports politics to get on the team after not making it…that doesn’t work out either. Make sure to work hard off the field too! Don’t be too disappointed you’re going to Palomar, you meet some of your best friends as a result of playing ball there! Don’t get lazy with school. You spend 4 years at Pmar before transferring to CSUSM, and it takes you 7 years total to get your bachelors. Time is money and you wasted a lot of both by farting around in school. Last but not least…don’t fall into the credit card trap! It takes you a couple of years to dig yourself out of that hole, and it’s not fun!

Keep your head up, everything works out.

-Marisela

P.S. Lighten up on the  Zac Efron stalking. You’ll eventually meet him.  

Nothing is more sincere than a handwritten letter to yourself!

Did you play sports as a kid? What would you say to the young athlete you?

Tim McGraw!

Tonight is Tim McGraw! So excited. He's one of my favorites...and totally hot! Keeping with Sarah's fan friday, let's talk about the last time I saw Tim...last summer at Angels stadium :]

I've been there plenty of times in the last 10-ish years because I'm a Yankees fan and that's as close as my team gets to San Diego, but I've never seen a concert there!

I had really been wanting to go to this show but A) face value tickets sold out asap B) no one I knew wanted to spend the 3rd party resale prices C) the drive is a hop, skip, and a jump away plus some 100 miles, give or take D) I was also holding out because Tim was giving out homes to wounded military members and are you ready for this...the godson of one of the ladies who works in my office was gifted a home! I was hoping she'd be able to score me a ticket...but no luck. I guess I just wasn't meant to go. UNTIL a buddy sent out a mass text that the first one to reply would score his extra ticket since a friend of his bailed. My phone sits right on my desk at work so I jumped at the opportunity and beat out the rest! A couple of days later we hit the road due North and arrived at Angels stadium...wayyyy early. We tailgated a little, I drank some beer, made a flag out of cans, and they caught one of the best shows of my life. 

The stage sat out on short center field/ 2nd base and there were just masses of people there. The dreamy Jake Owen opened the show...and one of the things that I love about him is he plays barefoot! Then Grace Potter took the stage and was cool, but she probably should have played before Jake since a lot of people don't know many of her songs and she kind of killed the mood after Jake had already pumped up the crowd. Then the main event...Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw! Kenny played a bunch of his songs and then Tim took the stage and played all of his greats! 1st time hearing "Truck Yeah!" and I loved it! Minus the "lil wayne bumpin in my headphones" lyrics. Not a fan of Wayne. Surprise appearance by Ashton Kutcher, a duet by Kenny and Tim, and then a group song with Jake, Grace, Kenny, and Tim! Not many details about what they sang because it was almost a year ago and I don't remember all of them, but trust me when I well you...it was an amazing concert that was kicked up 1000% because it was at Angels stadium! 

Check out the pics:

My ride. Go Yankees!

'merica!

As far as we were...these seats were still awesome!

BEER! Blegh.

TIM!

If I remember correctly...I made a friend in the bathroom, lol.

Thinking back...I saved my camera for Tim since he was my favorite of everyone and because of that, I missed out on pictures of everyone else. Oh well. Still a legit show :]

This was my second show at a ball park, the first was Dierks Bentley at Petco Park a couple of summers ago and I think I like this theme. Not sure when my next one will be, but I definitely like having my two favorites, country music and baseball in one! I think Kenny is doing another stadium tour this summer so if he's in your hood, I totally recommend going!

I can't wait until tonighttttt! Should be amazingggg!

Class Of 2013!

Let’s talk about my first day of college ever. I went to the local community college, Palomar College (UCP!) The year was 2006 on a nice summer/fall Monday morning of September…or was it August? Anyways, my first class was softball practice at 10:00 am. I probably left at 8:45, thinking 1 hour and 15 minutes should plenty time to drive the 25 mile distance, and it was. I remember arriving with 30 minutes to spare but ran into trouble when I pulled into the parking lot…and couldn't find an open spot to save my life. After spending an hour going through all of the lots, I finally found an open space! But now I was at least 30 minutes late to class. I struggled to decide if I should go to class or not and after crying to 2 of my best friends over the phone and talking to my dad, I decided not to go. Yep, I did not go to my first class of my college career. Instead I went to the retired softball coach’s office to talk to him about missing class since I knew him personally and was the reason I had decided to go to Palomar and play ball. He told me the new coach was chill and to just talk to her about what happened and she’ll understand. At that very moment, the new coach had stepped into retired coaches office to talk about her first day and there I was, the chick that didn't go to practice. I had to explain myself and she understood…but I had to pay for it and run sprints the following day.

Fast forward 7 years, I graduated from California State University, San Marcos with a Bachelors of Arts in Liberal Studies with a depth of study in Arts & Education on May 18,2013! 

Check out the grad pics:

Jumbo-tron action!

WOOOOOO!

martywiththeparty

with the parentals <3

grandma (mom's mom) and grandpa (dad's dad)

my family.

some besties!

school loves!

life long friends...and a photo bomber

with moniqueqee!

I seriously couldn't have done this without the support of my parents, family, friends, and work. It’s been a long time coming, but I finally did it!

I've still got a few classes, tests, and credential program to get through until I’m fully legit to become a teacher so here’s to the next 3 years!   

100 Things To Do Before You Die.

Like 2 weeks ago I pinned this link titled "100 things to do before you die." It has been on my mind since then, so I figured I would type it out here and cross out what I've done in these 24 years of life of mine...and decided I want to cross off 6 more and have 35 done by my 25th birthday, in September. 

1. Set foot on all continents. 

North America and South America, check! Need Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, Africa.  

2. Live in at least 2 different countries with completely cultures.

3. Solve a Rubik's cube.

4. Learn at least one foreign language. 

I live in the U.S. so Spanish is foreign, right?

5. Swim with whale sharks.
Rob @ the Fantasy Factory serves as inspiration for this one. Shark Attack!

6. Get drunk a least once in your life. 

Many times in my life.

7. Bungee jump.

8. Do the Mongol Rally.
The what? I might have to pass on this.

9. Swim with dolphins.

10. Go on a safari.
And check off Africa at the same time!

11. Learn how to surf.
I've been trying to get out to the beach to make this happen but it never works out.

12. Scuba dive. 

13. Fly an airplane.

14. Give a public speech. 

Speech class/class presentations/thank you toasts.

15. Get your body in the ultimate shape at least once in your life. 

Working on it!

16. Run a marathon.
26.2 miles. Ahh!

17. Run a triathlon.
Swimming, biking, AND running?! Bigger AHH!

18. Hot air ballooning.

19. Ride a motorcycle.

20. Sing to an audience. (Karaoke counts)

21. Volunteer 6 months abroad.

22. Have your own business.

23. Fish and eat your own catch.

24. Own a pet.

25. Renew your vows.

26. Watch the top 10 movies of all time. 

27.White water rapids.

28. Try rock climbing.

30. Learn how to make sushi.

31. Go to Disney World.

32. Learn how to sail.

33. Paint and frame your painting.

1/2 way there!

34. Help a stranger in distress.

35. Ride a roller coaster.

Disneyland. 6 Flags. Knotts Berry Farm. Del Mar Fair.

36. Drive the autobahn.

37. Spend Christmas on the beach.

Does the day after Christmas count? It's my tradition to go to the beach on the 26th and chill.

38. Get your B.A. or equivalent.

Wooooooo!

39. Find of job you love or create the job you love.

40. Read the top 5 novels of all time. 

41. Sleep under the stars.

<3

42. Make a fool of yourself.

All. The. Time.

43. Drive across an entire country.
Baseball Road trip!

44. See a solar eclipse.

45. Spend the night in a haunted place.

46. Learn how to play a musical instrument. 

Clarinet in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.

47. Drink beer at the Oktoberfest.
Barf. I hate beer.

48. Sleep in an igloo.

49. Brew your own beer.
Remember how I hate beer?

50. Go to the Superbowl.

51. Go to the Olympics. (Summer or Winter)

52. Write a book. (At least try)

53. Plant a tree.

54. Learn how to dance.

I can bust a move!

55. Ride a camel in the desert.

I rode a camel once at the fair. That was near the beach and far from the desert. But I'm gonna count it.

56. Ride an elephant.

57. Grow a beard at least once in your life.

That might be a little weird.

58. Shave your hair off.

59. Go skinny dipping.

60. Go to your favorite band's concert.

I've seen Drake, Jack's Mannequin, Alicia Keys, Lady Antebellum, and Dierks Bentley, Need John Mayer and JT.  

61. Climb a mountain.

62. Learn how to swim.

Never been good at it though.

63. Party until sunrise.

Good times.

64. Go wild at La Tomatina.
I heard you had to be a dude to do this.

65. Go to the opera.

66. Cross a country using public transportation.

67. Get to know your neighbors. 

No witty remark for this one.

68. Travel around the world.

69. Backpack through another country.

70. Go camping.

It's been years since I've done it! Want to go again, ASAP!

71. Feed a homeless person.

72. Take a class you've always wanted.

73. Own a sports car.

74. Go skiing.
Not very good at that...or snowboarding.

75. Shoot a gun.
BB Gun.

76. Trek Machu Picchu.

77. Visit Angkor Wat.
Which would mean I'd be in Asia, another continent down.

78. See the Iguazu Falls.
Before of after I check out the Carnival in Rio

79. Go kayaking.

Once, with Sara. Funniest moment of my life.

80. Dance at the Carnival in Rio.
I've always wanted to do this!

81. See a glacier.

82. Take a bath in a hot spring.

83. Try to beat a world record.

84. Go to a drive-in movie theater.

85. Ride a gondola in Venice.
What's up Europe?!!

86. See the Eiffel Tower.
Can I get the Lauren Conrad experience like when she went there on The Hills?

87. Fly a kite.

Who hasn't?

88. Solve a jigsaw puzzle.

Again, who hasn't?

89. Be an extra in a movie.

Audience of DWTS/SYTYCD/Jay Leno counts. But I might be auditioning for Anchor Man 2 next week!

90. Dance the macarena.

That was my jam when I was a kid.

91. Eat fried oreos/twinkies/cheesecake.

Thank you Del Mar Fair.

92. Float in the Dead Sea.
I just learned about the crazy tension out in that area with Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. Scary stuff! 

93. Travel at least once by train.

To Anaheim and Santa Barbara.

94. Go on a cruise.
I'm terrified of the deep sea. I might pass on this.

95. See the Northern Lights. (Aurora Borealis)

96. Travel by yourself.

97. Ride a horse.
As a kidlet in Meheeeco.

98. Fall in love.

99. Learn how to juggle. 

Couldn't tell you when or where I learned, but I def can do it.

100. Feel like the happiest person on Earth. 

I was the happiest person on Earth that one time I met Zac Efron.

Is there anything on this list you've done that I haven't? Share your experience/tips! I'd love to hear about it :] What about stuff on this list that you'd like to do? 

The Rumble: Padres v. Dodgers

Raise your hand if you've failed at blogging lately... [Marty raises her hand.] I usually try to get 2 posts in a week but holy moly life has been a little crazy lately! 

There are 4 more weeks left of school and it's graduation time! This means that I'm about knee deep in papers, presentations, and exams. Also, baseball season started and I'm obsessed with all the action happening with that. Finally, 2 of the CLAMS have their birthdays this month and the way it works with us it's usually a birthweek/weekend celebration so I have to make sure to get stuff done so I can accomodate the celebrations without forfeiting much school work. Oh, and I finally got back on my health kick, time to drop some weight! Which means waking up and exercising before the sun comes out since that's the only "free" (meh, who cares about sleep) time I have! BLAH. As crazy as things are, I wouldn't have it any other way. Life is good.

You know whose life isn't so good? Zach Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

Dude's collarbone was broken after getting into a fight with Carlos Quentin of the Padres.

In my 24.66 years of baseball fandom and regularly attending games, I have never ever seen a bench clearing fight and I was at the game last week when the brawl and injury happened!

My BFFs and I have season tickets to the Padres and our next game to catch after opening day was Thursday April 11th which was another Dodgers game! Playing against them is always fun because there's a huge rivalry between the teams and the fans.  

We got to our seats Thursday night which are in left center field, closest to the center fielder. My friends and I have this thing we like to do and that's yelling at the (away) teams center fielder that their shoe is untied (even if it's not) to get a peek at their bootaaaaay. Why? 

Alex Rodriguez and I share the same sentiment. 

Baseball pants make butts look good. Real good.

I shouted at Matt Kemp to "tie his shoe" and to my surprise, he obliged! Kind of. He just bent over real quick and touched his toe and popped back up. Better than nothing I guess!

Matt Kemp on the left.

There were some Padres fans heckling Matt real hard. He was getting pretty annoyed with it and doing hand gestures back to the fans and kept looking back at them between pitches. 

Even doing the same thing as Tony Gwynn Jr. below

I was already pretty excited because I've never seen a ballplayer react to hecklers like this...ever and it was sort of making my night.

THEN...this happened:

View of the brawl from my seat.

I. Lost. My. Mind. Lost it. I couldn't believe I was witnessing a bench clearing brawl! As crappy as the situation was, it was SO exciting to see! After like 5 or 10 minutes of "fighting" everyone cleared out and went to their corners, the pitchers walked back to their respective bullpens which is where our seats are. Good thing I was recording on my phone! As they made their way back and through the door up to the bullpen, one (Dodgers) fan was heckling the Padres pitchers and Luke Gregerson took it super personal and was calling out the fan, check it out:

Right before shit gets real between Gregerson and the other fan, ANOTHER FIGHT BREAKS OUT. OMFG! I couldn't keep my cool. I was too excited. I never thought I'd see the day where this happened. Hahaha. After the second "fight" happened the guys were too pumped to go chill out on their bench. They all stood by the fence ready incase another one happened. No such luck.

The internet and sports media was a buzz all that night and the day after over the fight. Apparently Greinke and Quentin have this history and Quentin thought he was hit on purpose. He took a couple of steps towards Greinke and Greinke said something that caused Carlos to charge the mound which started the first brawl. Once they cleared out Jerry Hairston Jr. (a former Padre) heard some of the Padres (who he will not name. Voldemort?) making fun of Greinke's injury and he got pissed and ran to their dugout to call them out on it. Shit went down again and another brawl sort of happened. At the end of it Quentin, Greinke, Hairston Jr. and Kemp were all ejected from the game. Matt Kemp got in Quentin's face in the parking garage talking crap ending it with "We'll see bitch" while being broken up by Clayton Richards and some coppers. We'll see is right. Padres hit up LA Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week and SWEPT them! Whoop whoop. I'm excited for the next Padres/Dodgers series I get to go to at Petco :]

30 DAY CHALLENGE: DAY 18

So I failed to post yesterday, and thus officially failed the challenge. But I'll still keep at it :] It just means 2 posts in 1 day! 

Day 18 – A photo of your favorite memory.

Meeting Zac Efron is hands down my favorite memory ever. But I've already posted that picture so I might as well tell the story of how it happened! 

Here's the picture to serve as a reminder ;]

My best friend and I were crazy obsessed with the kid. Crazy obsessed. When we found out that he'd be in Hollywood promoting HSM 3 on Jay Leno, we decided we must be at the taping. We assumed there'd be girls for days lining up so we planned to leave the night before. We get up to Burbank around 11:00 pm to see nobody in line. We were a little disappointed because nobody was there so we needed to figure out our sleeping arrangements. The studio is kind of a sketchy area of Burbank so we were nervous about sleeping in the car on the side of the street. They have a gated parking so we asked the front desk [they were still open!] if we could park and sleep in there and they said yes! We were pretty excited and weren't able to sleep most of the night, but when we did, the timing was totally off! We fell asleep for maybe an hour or two and by the time we woke up [5:30 am-ish] there was a lady setting up her spot in line. Super bummed :[ Oh well. We set up camp and slowly more WOMEN start showing up. The were all there for Kenny Chesney. And play his music NON STOP! Sara and I were feeling nuts for doing this much just to see Efron, but we were not the craziest ones there. Kenny Chesney has some crazy stalkers and we were among them...they follow him like across the country and stuff! Gates open around 9:00 am and they give us our tickets to the show. We then have to walk around the block to another door to enter the show, but that door doesn't open until 4:00 pm. Ugh! We go around the block only to see someone lined up over there! There were people who had the system figured out. One would camp out in one line and the other person in the other line so either way, they'd still be first in line! Well we chill in this second line for the rest of the morning/afternoon until they let us in the doors!

Shirtless Zac Efron appreciation break.

We're about 6th in line in this second line but when they let us in, they seat us in one of the front rows further to the left side, which kind of made us sad since we were kind of behind the chair where the guests sit so we'd see his side/back of his face. Drew Berrymore is the first guest. Most annoying celebrity EVER! She kept playing with her hair.  Her interview couldn't have been over soon enough! Time for Zac's interview. Yay! His actual interview was a blur since we could only focus on his hotness and cheer loud causing him to look over to us a couple of times :] Once his interview was done it was Kenny's turn to perform and Zac chilled on stage watching him. I'm assuming he wasn't too into in since we would look out to the audience instead of watching his performance. Cue resilient Marty. We brought in magazines with him on the cover and every time he would look over to us we would wave them to get his attention and point to them with a sharpie. He just kind of smiled and moved on. Once everything was over he tried to take off through a side door but security wouldn't let him. He had to cross the stage and leave through the door he came in. Cue Marty's loud voice. We were yelling his name, holding up our magazines and he looks over to us. He stops on the stage, talks to a security dude AND THEN WAVES US DOWN!

Hot Zac Efron in a suit appreciation break.

We pretty much sprinted down to the stage leaving behind out purses, wallets, car keys...pretty much everything worth anything. We talked to him for like 5 minutes about his interview and the movie and I got the balls to ask him for an picture :] He so kindly obliged and we got our picture and his autograph [below]. He gave me all his love. Once it was time to peace out, Sana and I floated out of the studio and immediately started crying. We called out parents and friends retelling the amazing situation that just happened. We hopped in the car and headed home, while still crying and continued to cry for 3 hours straight until we got back to San Diego. It was the best day of my life.