Our Honeymoon! — the mccartys

After our wedding, we stayed a few days in town to spend time with our friends and family who had flown in. I've always wanted to stay at the Ace in Seattle and seeing as the first one ever started in Seattle, I thought our wedding night was the perfect excuse to book a room there. You know me and my clean looking spaces :) It's a super cool hotel and though it looks small from the front, it definitely proved me wrong once inside. Complimentary breakfast was provided at the cute little space at the bottom level.

THE ACE HOTEL

DAY ONE

For our honeymoon, we decided to go to San Francisco. A city that neither one of us have been to, believe it or not. Aaron has never even been to California! Of course dreams of Europe were on my mind when we were planning, but it was going to be/had already been an expensive year so SF it was! And truthfully, I was just excited to be able to travel with my husband!

We flew out on Thursday, the 29th and took the Bart into town. We had rented an AirBnB in the Mission District because it was a good central spot, as we had heard. As soon as we got off the train, the first thing we saw was Coffee Mission, so of course we sat down for a cup of joe before walking to our rental. That night, we went out for tacos at La Taqueria in the mission. So freakin' good I asked Aaron to wait in line to get me more. Thanks husband! On our walk home we passed by Humphry's Slocombe, which is an ice cream shop that I had looked up prior to our trip because it had Vietnamese Iced Coffee ice cream. Thanks to our friend Shelby Payne, who had gifted us some funds for ice cream, we stopped by for a late night snack. It was better than I expected and I wish we had the chance to go back for more.

DAY TWO

We set out to do all the tourist-y things! But not before brunching on some good food. We had planned to go to some other breakfast spot, but because we had slept in (sorry, not sorry), we settled for another recommendation we had found: The Boxing Room. It was nearing lunchtime by the time we sat down, but nonetheless the food was very delicious and we were not disappointed. In the afternoon, we walked around the Hayes Valley area and did some window shopping and got our ice cream on again at Smitten. This was Aaron's favorite. They had patented a machine that chilled ice cream to minus 321 F degrees. Extremely creamy and delicious. Down the street, we checked out the Painted Ladies before UBERing to the Golden Gate bridge. I was so happy to finally see it after passing by so many times before. We walked the whole beach, and checked out the batteries by the water which fascinated Aaron. After all the walking, we started to get hungry so onto Pizetta 211, a cute and intimate little spot recommended to us by our friend Stephanie.

DAY THREE

Oh man, I don't have too many photos from this day because lemme just tell you, there was a lot of waiting. We woke up and headed to Sightglass Coffee for some caffeination before heading into town and checking out Lombard Street and Fishermens' Wharf. (Shoutout to the Millers for gifting us coffee funds!) It may be overrated but I still wanted to see it. Aaron and I have really gotten into oysters in the past year and a friend recommended Swan Oyster Depot to us. It was a crazy long line and though we stayed in it for only 45 minutes, we did the math and there was no way we'd be able to make it in, eat and leave in time to make our tattoo appointment. We were super bummed! I suggested going to Mr. Holmes Bakeshop for their infamous donuts but alas, we got there and they had closed early because they were all sold out. Just our luck, eh? No matter, we settled at Tartine Bakery and had a small snack before getting tatted at Mission Ink Tattoo. The guys there were super friendly and we were in and out of there pretty quick. Of course, we were just getting bands.

DAY FOUR

This unfortunate but still redeeming day. We had been UBERing around town and had reserved a van to drive down to Big Sur. After picking it up, we headed to Potrero Hill for breakfast at Hazel's Kitchen (because Plow down the street was an over 2-hour wait!!). We were gone for about 45 minutes and within that time, our rental car window was smashed and my backpack was stolen. Luckily I had had my wallet on me and our clothes were still there, but within the backpack- my laptop, instax camera, X100s camera, a new Everlane shirt and two of my black purses... all stolen. I was pretty upset with myself for being dumb enough to leave my stuff inside the van, but then again, I didn't steal anything. People can really suck sometimes, but I tried to have a good spirit about it and didn't let it bring down the rest of our trip. After getting another rental car, we were headed down to Big Sur.

Aaron absolutely loved the drive down the coast! I knew he would, which is why I decided to take the 101 instead of the 5. After a pit stop at Bixby bridge, we settled at the Big Sur River Inn that night and it was super relaxing and quiet.

DAY FIVE, SIX & SEVEN

We woke up Monday morning and did a short hike around Big Sur that morning before starting our drive down to LA! Our friends, Michael and Staci, were generous enough to let us crash at their place. On the way, we stopped in Santa Barbara for some coffee at the French Press and for me to check out my old stomping grounds for a quick sec. It was sad to see the school shut down but it brought back a lot of memories I made in the year that I lived down there. We got in around 7p that night and ate in with some delivered pizza and catching up with the Girouxs.

We spent all day at Disneyland on Tuesday! It was a long day, but we had a great time with the Disneyland-pros. I think Aaron had like four churros. We got our married pins, which is the one souvenir I wanted ha!

On our last day, I woke up feeling super sick and faint and slept the whole afternoon before we flew out that evening. By that point, both of us were ready to be home. I think the exhaustion hit then, from all the wedding planning, wedding weekend and spending time with people the few days following. It was so sweet to come home and to have our new mattress waiting for us!

DISNEYLAND!

OUR HONEYMOON VIDEO

After being egged on by my cousins, we relented and started making clips. Enjoy!

*all photos and video were taken on my iPhone 6 :)