Christmas Lights

Shawn and I spent our Saturday afternoon hanging up Christmas lights for our first Christmas together.  It was fun, and we are so happy to have a house to hang them on! 

 Looking good!

San Francisco Girls Trip

Last weekend three of my best girlfriends from high school and myself went to San Francisco for a quick weekend getaway.  It had been years since we had all four been together hanging out with no kids, families or other obligations and it was SO much fun!  We packed our weekend full of seeing all of the best things San Fran had to offer. 

Get ready for a boat load of photos!

Here is the wonderful view from our hotel room.  That's Alcatraz Island in the far left distance.

 Here is Tara and Rushell as we wait for our "F Train" to take us to our tour of Alcatraz.

 And there comes our train!  They use old cable cars from all over for these trains.  Pretty cool!

 On our boat to Alcatraz.  Check out those birds.  There were tons that followed us on our boat ride.

 And here I am with my tour map covering my head - I was SO afraid of getting pooped on!

 Here is a photo of the four of us on our boat.  Left to Right, Tara, Annie, Me, and Rushell.

 For some reason I am very excited to be locked up.  It was actually pretty creepy in there, but I was doing a great job of faking it.  :)

 Here is a shot of one of the cells.  I was surprised at how tiny and cramped they were.

 View of the jail from outside.

 Walking along the piers on our way to Fisherman's Wharf, we came across this street performer.  I stopped to ask him if I could take a picture with him and he gave me a nice little lollipop.  As we posed for a photo, he wanted me to kiss him.  (I'm still not sure if he really wanted a kiss, but it was hilarious none the less)

 Here he is going in for the kill, and I'm trying to figure out if he was actually going to kiss me.  I was cracking up and screaming all at the same time. 

 Here comes the screaming part.  People were all cracking up watching this unfold around them. 

 Here are the four of us at Fisherman's Wharf

 Rushell and I at Kara's Cupcakes.  We bought some, and they were sooooo good.

 Here we are at the Ghiradelli chocolate factory and store.  We stopped there for an ice cream sundae and it was delicious!

 Here is a ginormous hill we walked up because we were too cheap to pay for transportation.  We only had to walk about 5 blocks so we thought it would be easy, but we didn't know the 5 blocks would all be straight up hill.  At this point we're only about 2 blocks in.  But it's a cool shot looking down at Alcatraz below.

 This is the next house Shawn and I are going to buy.  Ha ha... it's right on Lombard Street (the crooked-est street in the world) and I totally fell in love, so cute!

 Here is Lombard Street from the bottom. (Yes, after walking uphill 5 blocks to get there, we then walked up and down Lombard Street.)

 Here I am in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.  It was such a beautiful sight and the weather was gorgeous that day - we really lucked out. 

 The bridge as the sun was setting.