A little diary of life, cooking, crafts, travel and my children.
Friday, November 13, 2009
San Francisco
I was lucky enough to take a recent business trip to San Francisco. What is a trip to SF without a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge?? Here are a bunch of photos in no apparent order from the trip!
I flew into San Jose, where my sister Leigh lives, and we drove into SF together to play tourist. Here she is riding the running board on the cable car.
Us together....nice of the conductor to take a photo of us together!
The two of us at the Golden Gate Bridge.
Some of the electric transit down by the wharf.
The morning after I got into SF, I took a walk down by the wharf and followed the scent of sourdough for my breakfast. I visited the Boudin Bakery.
I wanted to bring a bunch of sourdough home but.......the kids wouldn't eat it and it would have been challenging on the plane. I guess I will need to get a starter going at home again like I did a few years ago so I can bake my own sourdough bread. Yum!
Along the wharf I saw this sign for the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. of Forest Gump fame.
I visited Ghiradelli Square during my walk.
And the gorgeous fountain in the square. It is truly a piece of art.
I had to laugh when I saw the Zoltar machine. It made me think of the movie, Big.
Leigh and I visited Plouf resturant near Chinatown.
We had an amazing dinner of salad, steamed mussels in a coconut broth that was AMAZING as seen below, and creme brulee.
The picture below is the Fine Arts Museum. I had wished I'd brought my tripod so the photo would not have been blurry but you can get the idea of how beautiful it was in the evening.
Back on my morning walk, I saw the sea lions at Pier 39.
It was amazing to see them just hanging out in such a huge group doing nothing but making noise. They are protected so they did not worry about getting harrassed by tourists.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Saturday
I had a Saturday project.....take the carpeting off my stairs and landing. I am having laminate installed soon, and since I have a lovely cat (aka landing peeing machine) I needed to see how bad it was and what wood needs to be replaced before I get the laminate installed.
I am dressed and ready for action......crowbar, gloves and a mask.
The carpet on the stairs........
The finished product.....
I am dressed and ready for action......crowbar, gloves and a mask.
First Friday Book Club
I made Caribbean Chocolate Cake Ring with a chocolate glaze.
I also made some pumpkin cream cheese cup cakes.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Popover's
Happy Halloween!!
We started the day by carving pumpkins.
The kids always hate cleaning the guts out of the pumpkins
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