SF!

sarah and i drove up to SF on wed, the 23rd. i of course had to document the journey even tho sarah was less than thrilled to have her picture taken! we got to leslie & jamie's place around 7ish. what an awesome place they have (i expected nothing less!!). i'm so jealous of les' decorating skills! i got to sleep in the kitchen bedroom on a very comfy blow up mattress with the most thoughtful and fun shelf full of cute stuff: a spot for a water glass, hot tamales, magazines, and a journal. loved it! and will try to steal such idea for my spare room! we talked and talked and eventually went to get some food and wine to enjoy. and we died of laughter at sarah's nightshirt... see picture... but it was so ridiculously funny!! what does this make you think?! i don't even think i could do the story justice...i think you had to have been there...
awwwww....look at that mug!!!


how welcoming!! sarah and i did bring presents too: a big long 3 foot thing of jerky, pie, big sugar sticks, and a baby pumpkin and some pumpkin jam.


then on thurs, sarah and i walked around the marina area and met a very interesting guy, martin, who is french but has lived in the area for 40 years. he shared some of his great stories about the people who live around the palace of fine arts (that's what it's called, right??). he had been a landscaper for years and years and so he knew tons of stories!
eventually, we found cupcakes and i had the most delicious coconut cupcake. yum!! it was gone in 2.2 seconds.

me & sarah, the palace of fine arts, martin, my car with the license plate "itabtme".

close up of plate that isn't fuzzy. stupid collage.

later that afternoon, sarah went to dinner with her family friends and les, jamie, and i went to the doggy park with hudson. so many cute dogs there and hudson wasn't afraid of any of them!! and then les and i wandered around some of the shops on union and waited for holly to drive in. over on union at jest jewels, me and les had to climb on the rocking animals: that evening, all of us including holly headed over to the thirsty pig for some drinks and to meet up with lauren wildberger. food and drinks and fantastic company!




on fri, i just had the morning since i had to fly home early that afternoon. les had heard of the 'best brunch in all of sf' on a tv show and we all decided we had to try it! i can't remember the name of it, but we got there and on a fri morn, had just over an hour wait. can you imagine on a weekend?! anyways, while we were in line we met a group of 4 girls who were from chicago of all places! and one of the girls literally lives above my starbucks! how crazy! one of the other girls works in corporate sales for att&t and i jokingly asked if they were hiring and she said, actually yes there is a division in sales hiring. so she emailed me and when i got home i emailed her my resume! how funny... i hope something comes of that - how cool would that be?! we finally made it inside and OMG, how to choose what to get?! well, given my love of pancakes... i just had to have the cornmeal blueberry special pancakes. and they were delicious!!! yum!!! yum!! definitely worth the wait... but then we realized that i needed to leave for the airport so it was all a little rushed, but that's ok... i did make it to the airport with just the perfect amount of time to get on a take a snoozer...