Dan & Sarah Visit!

We had such a great weekend visiting with Dan and Sarah! The weather was beautiful for their visit, well, except for the last hour and a half that Andrew and Dan were golfing last night. I didn't take any pictures so I'm borrowing the ones that Sarah took :)

On Friday evening after Dan and Sarah got settled into their hotel we headed up to Chestnut St. in the marina neighborhood to find a restaurant. We ended up eating at this little Italian place called E'Angelo. While we ate, we watched and heard the waiters serve wine and talk Italian to a couple of waiting customers on the sidewalk. It's still amazes me to have such a variety of cultures in such a little space (geographically speaking). 

Saturday Andrew had class and I worked until the late afternoon so we had Dan and Sarah over for dinner and to watch the Giants play game 3 of the World Series. Sarah made a delicious smoked salmon fettuccine alfredo. We had a great sunset to go with the baseball and football games we were watching. 

Sunday morning we rented bicycles and rode through Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach. 

On our ride back from the beach we saw the heard of buffalo that live in the park. Then we dropped Andrew and Dan off at the Presidio Golf Course so they could get their golf fix. Sarah and I went to a wine store on California St. then headed up to Chestnut to walk around and do some shopping. We went into this great olive oil shop called We Olive and tasted different olive oils and balsamic vinegars. I know where we're getting our olive oil when we run out! :) Sarah and I had lunch at the Tipsy Pig, a bar with great food and a huge outdoor patio. We also went into an open house for a condo for sale about two blocks north of Chestnut on Fillmore. It was a one bedroom, one bath condo with a very outdated bathroom and kitchen (our humble kitchen is larger and more updated) for $800,000. That doesn't include $350 a month in HOA dues and the fact that you keep your keys in the garage so that if your neighbor needs to move your car to get out they can. 

When the guys were done with golf we headed over the the Cliff House for an early-birthday dinner. We had a great dinner while we watched the Giants win the World Series. 

By the last inning everyone's eyes were glued to the tv, including the staff, who gathered around to watch :) It's fun to be in a city and have a local team win big. That doesn't really happen in Oregon. 

Our (too-short) visit with Dan and Sarah was so much fun and it was sad to say goodbye. Hopefully by now they're home safe on the farm :) 

I'm enjoying my first two-day-in-a-row weekend since I started work and it's wonderful! I'm still working full-time and Andrew is really enjoying his classes. We're enjoying the sunshine when it's here (they weather has been a bit sporadic lately) and we're looking forward to seeing my parents later this week! 

Andrew's 24th Birthday!

Last Wednesday we celebrated Andrew's birthday! I had the day off so we relaxed and Andrew spent some time working on a paper for his final. He requested homemade ice cream cake so I made individual little chocolate cakes with chocolate chip mint ice cream filling. They turned out super cute and delicious :)

This past weekend my parents drove down for a quick visit. After they arrived on Saturday we went down to the waterfront to watch the ships and wait for Andrew to get out of class. We had corn chowder for dinner that Andrew made in the crock pot before he left for class. 

Sunday morning they came to church with us and we went to lunch at a restaurant in the marina neighborhood called Squat & Gobble. We had a great time visiting with them and hopefully their next visit will be longer :)

Other happy news, WE HAVE INTERNET AT THE APARTMENT!!! After almost 3 months of commuting to campus in order to check our emails, we are happy to have the internet in our home. The internet came with basic cable and Andrew is ecstatic to have espn again! 

Andrew just started 2 new classes, Environmental Chemistry and Climate Change. He enjoyed chemistry on saturday and he's in his first climate change class as I write this. I'm enjoying work and getting into the routine of waking up between 3:30 and 6am everyday. I really like the morning shift and getting home from work by 2pm is great! 

Weddings, lots of Driving, Homework, and Work

Wow! The last couple of weeks have been so busy!

 I drove to Medford the last two weekends to visit my family and witness the marriages of two awesome couples. Both weddings were beautiful and wonderful and I'm so happy for John + Kati and Steven + Whitney! It wasn't fun driving for 12 hours two weekends in a row but it was definitely worth it. Andrew had to attend his Saturday classes so he stayed behind in SF but he got to watch football all weekend and eat cookie dough which I think helped the situation :)

While I was in Medford I went wedding dress shopping with Laura, our mom, and Sheldon's mom, Ver Dawn. Laura found her dress!!! It's beautiful on her and I'm so happy for her!

I am now employed! I started at Starbucks last week. Even though it's a really crazy store (underground between the Westfield SF Center and the Powell BART Station in downtown) and there's so many things to learn and memorize, it's going well and I like it. I was only scheduled to work 12 hours this week but I've picked up hours by covering shifts and I'll end the week with almost 40 hours. Woohoo! I work all of the coming week too, until Saturday, which I requested off in order to meet the TRF Youth Group at the Great America theme park. I'm so excited for Saturday! I've been taking the bus to and from work and it provides entertainment and annoyment. I'm thinking of adding "Things heard on the SF Muni" to the blog. Along with updates of our lives you can read entertaining stories of public transportation. For example, this week I overheard this conversation between a European guy and a cute girl:
Guy: (sits down next to girl and in broken English) "You look like movie actress."
Girl: (laughs) "Thank you, which one?"
Guy: "I don't know."
Girl: "Oh... okay..."
I sat nearby laughing to myself thinking, "That was a pickup line fail!"
That might have been funnier in person.
Anyways.

Andrew has been super busy with his classes. He had a final today, a 10 minute presentation in his Air Quality class. He spent all week researching and working on the presentation. His teacher and teacher's aid both told him that his presentation was great and his slide's were perfect! He also has a group presentation coming up next Saturday so he'll be busy this week working on that.

Go Ducks! (we're at campus watching the game)