Saturday, July 4, 2009

Fisher's visit

Our good friend Fisher visited a couple weeks ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting it. What should you know about Fish? Hmm...We were all part of the great Austin, TX, Roaring 00's, which was basically a continuation of all the fun parts of college but with paychecks. Fish was and is the culinary expert of the group, routinely making sunday night dinners for anyone who wanted to stop by. Only now, he has given up on the silly idea of making micro-chips, and is pursuing a full-time career as a chef...though apparently your first working title is not so much "chef" as "you." He visited SF as sortof a last stop before flying to NY to dive headfirst into the restaurant scene there, which we hear is amazing, cruel, eye-opening, fun, tyrannical, and egotistical, but otherwise like a party.

LL and Fish are waiting for the muni. We make all our friends wait on the muni. As an aside...if you are on twitter, I suggest following @sfmunitrain and his ongoing feud with BART.

LL and Fish in the rose garden in Golden Gate park. We walked a LOT. But it was fun. Fish and I also got some great raw oysters on the wharf. Somehow, Fish knew a lot about oysters...wait I guess that makes sense.

Bird ignoring a turtle outside the DeYoung. Anywhere else, the bird might acknowledge the turtle, but not in front of the snobby art museum.

This is a pic of our friend Schulte after dinner at a place on Clement called Burma Superstar. He and Ali suggested it, since it is apparently one of their favorite places. It was my first experience with Burmese food, but it was really, really good.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Celeste and Leon visit SF

My sister, Celeste, and her husband, Leon, visited us last weekend. Leon is taller than everyone else in our family, but that's not saying much. Celeste is NOT the shortest person in our family, and that is really saying something.



Here are me, Leon and Celeste walking across the Golden Gate Bridge. I have always wanted to walk across, but this was the first time we had visitors who actually would go along with it. It's 1.7 miles across with a biting cold wind if you are dressed for summer.


LL found a cute dog at the GGB visitors center. She finds cute dogs everywhere. But this one is really extra cute.


Here's LL and I taking an obligatory pic in front of the GGB. You can't stand in this spot without taking a picture exactly like this one. You just can't.

We also went out to Alcatraz. The National Park Service administrates the island, and really everything is very well done. The audio tour is especially great, and I recommend it to anyone. You'll even know your way around the prison (somewhat) by the end of the audio tour.

Here are Celeste, Leon and me waiting for the Muni. This is right before we headed up to Noe Valley for brunch. We ate TONS this weekend. Now Celeste and Leon are gone, and we have to diet. Again.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Parking is HORRIBLE. But I did it anyway.

After trying for 20 minutes last thursday, 30 minutes yesterday morning, 80 minutes last night, and 10 more minutes this morning, I have successfully found good street parking for the Xterra!!!

(During the intervening times, it was in various short-term parking locations and garages, none of which are good for more than a day).

Exhale. Relax. The end.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

What we did on our Memorial Day vacation

1. Plan to eat healthy food and be cheap:


2. Eat healthily (and cheaply):


3. Give up and go out to drink wine and stalk puppies.


Repeat as necessary until holiday is over...

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

We may not have been blogging, but we haven't been twiddling our thumbs...

Errr...it's been awhile! Sorry about that. But we've got lots of good excuses:

In November Gunnar and Candice came out for a visit, and we spent a couple of days in Napa with Ben and Ali.


In December LL (with a lot of help from Clay) helped host the Junior League's first ever Finishing Touches Holiday Home Tour. And the funs not over yet, since she's co-chairing the 2009 Home Tour! Pictured here are LL, her 2009 co-chair Karen, Eugenie the VP of Fundraising and Felicity, the 2008 chair.


December also marked failed tape-out #1, but we suffered through it by...

...skiing in South Lake Tahoe with some of Clay's fam: brother Chris, sister Celeste, brother-in-law Leon and then of course LL and Clay. After that we were all off to Louisiana for a great Christmas.



In February we were off to Dallas to host a baby shower for god-sister Heather. Here we have new gandma Streak, LL, baby daddy/husband Mike, Heather, Leslie and Melissa.



In March LL took off to Las Angeles to help Braley celebrate her birthday. Lots of fun (and good Italian food) was had by all.


Somewhere in here was failed tape-out #2. Which we suffered through by...
...skiing in North Lake Tahoe (Squaw Valley) with Greg. Just in case you were wondering it's not just the photo--Clay's goggles really were that big.

LL was off again in early April to Austin for Erin Campbell Naman's baby shower. Here we have Leslie, Erin (and Riley), LL and Christina. Yes, yes, LL is wearing the same dress she wore to the other baby shower. And if you have a baby she'll probably wear it to your shower, too. So there.


One last photo of the gang in Austin: Erin (and Riley), Brian, LL, Greg, Ann and Fry.

There were several other fun events including a fantastic visit from Erin and Bryan Geiger Smith/Smith, but alas, no photographic evidence.


And now we are just hanging tight waiting for tape-out attempt #3. Also are hoping pretty hard that it's not a fail, as we've already put the ski clothes away for the summer...