San Francisco!

Amy and I got super-cheap tickets to San Francisco on Virgin America back in August (I think). I had never really been to California, except for a brief drive through the desert about 10 years ago.


So, yay! California! Palm trees and bikinis and sun!

Except, apparently that is only Southern California, and only certain times of the year is it nice in San Fran. I had checked the weather before we left, so the three days of rain and bitter cold shouldn't really have surprised me, but they did. And I didn't pack very well. We ended up with two days of sun at least, which was a nice way to end the trip. On to the photos.

Here is a picture of the inside of the airplane. I only put this up to show the cool pink/purple lighting. Really.




Being cold all the time makes me tired.




Adam (our wonderful host who let us crash at his apartment for three nights), me, Amy, and her sister Gina who came down from Redding to hang out:





Scharffen Berger Chooooocooooolate Factory tour! Here's a machine grinding nibs. Mmmm. Nibs.


Those are tubes, tubes full of chocolate! overhead.




Our last two nights we moved to a hostel. Besides being surrounded on all sides by strip clubs and porn shops (and having the most miserable mattress I've ever slept on), the Green Tortoise was pretty rockin. Siobhan (from Ireland, on her first few nights of a year of traveling ) was also staying in our room and became our third partner in crime for the next couple of days.


This picture is blurry. I know.




Me, looking like a huge nerd in the bike helmet Amy made me wear, and the Golden Gate Bridge:


Alcatraz! (we didn't go) :



Bridge, Me, Amy:



:(


Bridge pictures:

Our new Canadian skateboarding friends at the hostel:



Chinatown!
Best lunch ever at Lucky Creation, a vegetarian restaurant in Chinatown:



Riding the cable car up:



A video of the cable car:

January in DC...

...is pretty miserable. In my old age the winters have become much harsher and harder to deal with. Another miserable thing is what is happening to my neighborhood:

Bye bye affordable housing, hello overpriced condos. I give my apartment complex 5 years.



I like it when the water in the plant pots overflows but doesn't quite flow over.


Kelsey (and my parents) came to visit! We went to Gravelly Point Park next to the airport to watch the planes go over. Kelsey likes airplanes when they are in the sky and appear bird-sized, not so much when they are 100 ft overhead



Super Furry Patriotic Dog?



I'm going to San Francisco Thursday; I cannot pass up a super super cheap plane ticket. I'm going to take lots of pictures. And maybe share them with you.

I'm Back

Hi.

I got a new camera. It seems like I do that every few posts.

I promise I'm going to try extra hard to post so that people might actually start reading again.

Here is a picture of some baby cilantro sprouts:



Here is a picture of some baby cacti. We like to grow things at work:



Here is my roommate and her devil eyes in the midst of a mess she created:


I didn't promise my posts would be good.