Remember when the blog wasn’t just wedding after wedding, e-session upon e-session? WELL REMEMBER NO MORE! We do have lives outside of taking pictures of other people’s lives, and I’m constantly taking photos, it’s just that processing those photos usually takes a back seat to paid work. But I got fed up with the mounting pile of fun photos recently and processed some of them, starting with these.

Katelyn came up with this at first, when trying to put together the ultimate “Zach day off.” (Do I have the best wife ever or what?) A ferry ride, followed by a bike ride on an island, followed by dinner in downtown San Diego. I voted HECK YES and we had our awesome date. We both agreed it was super fun but would have been even better with friends. Fast-forward a few months, my sister comes out to visit with her boyfriend and my brother-in-law’s girlfriend also comes out to visit, so we hatch a plan to do our same date but with 3 couples this time. It was epic, as you can see below.

So, if you have a boyfriend, girlfriend, fiance, husband or wife who doesn’t read this blog, you can TOTALLY steal this date and use it as your own and score mondo points. Did I mention it’s pretty dang cheap? Here’s the info:

Ferry to Coronado Island: http://www.sdhe.com/san-diego-bay-ferry.html

Bike Rentals: http://hollandsbicycles.com/page.cfm?pageID=499

And without further ado, the photos…

This is the ferry you take over.

The tandem bike thing is harder than it looks, but it’s not too bad once you get the hang of it. Getting the hang of it, for us, involved me trying to get off the bike to make this photo and falling terribly with the camera crashing on the cement!

Only the clear filter was damaged, which was nice. A reminder to have these on all your lenses! (The hood would have saved everything even more)

Anyways, this photo cost us a clear filter (but a funny memory of me falling).

We rode the bike to Hotel Del Coronado, a STUNNING place that I’m dying for someone to get married at and hire us for! (Hint hint)

Then we headed to downtown Coronado and got some AMAZING lattes.

The light got prettier so we redid this shot on the way back, sans the falling.

Waiting for the ferry.

Ferry ride back, mmmmm.

Crossing the street snapshot.

And now, PART II, the triple date!

This is much harder than it looks. I tried to do this with Katelyn after we got this photo and I couldn’t! We almost crashed a few times trying. Kudos to Scott and Jessica!

My sister is the best.

Crab grass.

All the Hodges in this photo are not wearing sunglasses. Weird eh?

Taryn grabbed this one, I LOOOOOOVE IT.