This morning the rain came down pretty hard and I still had the task of walking the dog. It was the perfect opportunity to test out my new rain boots!!!
I bought them on sale at Sports Basement and they’re awesome! Here’s a link to them if you wanted details.
I took the dog and the waterproof camera outside for some rainy day fun. I guess I was the only one actually having fun. Dog was super confused by all the jumping and wading through the deep puddles.
Jesse had sailing lessons on Saturday so I took a walk down to the Ferry Plaza. It’s still one of my favorite places in the city. The Farmers’ Market on Saturdays makes it even more exciting.
Did you know that brussel sprouts grow on a big stalk?!
And check out this bouquet of mushrooms!
Outside there was a kid who looked to be about 9 years old playing his trumpet. The sign in the box says, “Thank you for helping me to take lessons and develop myself as a musician. Gabriel Angelo.” Remember that name. He might be famous in 10-15 years.
On my way home, I went on a mini photo safari and then plopped myself down on one of the piers overlooking the bay for a snack.
I had my favorite potato croquette and watched the sailboats go by in hopes that Jes and his crew would sail by. No such luck but I had a tasty treat.
Last night we went to the Bangs’ for a tasting of high-end vodka from Poland and Russia. We all had individual shot glasses labeled with a famous person’s name. Mine was Pavlov. Heh heh.
There were 10 different vodkas and Vyl made a card of tasting notes and sheets for us to write down our thoughts and guesses of which was which.
I just enjoyed tasting them and had no idea what a Polish or Russian vodka was supposed to taste like. I DID, however, pick out the Stoli. Haha. My #1 favorite of the 10 was Chopin. It was creamier than the others and a little sweet.
Vyl also picked up food from a Russian deli. I tried a perogi that looked totally like a potsticker. And surprisingly, I really liked this dish that had beets, potato, onions, salmon, and herring at the bottom (the bright pink one). Sounds disgusting but it was pretty tasty!
Here are the rest of the photos.
Last month at work, we were all feeling burnt out and needed a big attitude change for the sake of our patients. So, we decided to kick off the new year last Saturday with a slumber party at Steph’s house in Livermore. We cheesed it up even more by calling it our “Zen in 2010 Party”.
The grown-ups joined us in the evening for a buffet of appetizers and drinks and a very entertaining board game. Sue, my manager, even brought a handy-dandy s’mores maker and whipped up some cocktails for us.
After the grown-ups went home, we finished up the wine, played MASH, made some friendly crank calls to our friends, and fell asleep to “The Little Mermaid”. There were definitely a lot of laughs and hijinks that night. We all slept in the livingroom in sleeping bags and woke up to a scrumptious breakfast that Stephanie prepared for all of us.
I hadn’t been to a sleep-over in a VERY long time and I think it was more fun than any teeny-bopper party that I had ever been to. Here are the photos.
On Friday, it was my intern’s last day and the past 12 weeks with her have been fun. We had some tough kids and she did a great job with them. She’s moving back to New Jersey on Monday so she wasn’t available to go out that evening.
But of course, the Rehab girls and I went out anyway. We took the super duper carpool lane on the bridge that afternoon and had a well-deserved Happy Hour in the city. What fun!
For the past 2 years, Jes has said that his company has special membership privileges at certain museums in the city. We finally used it today to visit SFMoMA. Fortunately for me, there were lots of photography exhibits on display this weekend. It was also the last day of the Richard Avedon exhibit. He’s a well-known photographer who took lots of black and white portraits with plain white backgrounds and also shot fashion photos for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
Dovima with Elephants
Carmen (Homage to Munkacsi)
These two were my favorites, which also happen to be soe of his most famous ones that are also displayed at The Smithsonian.
Afterward, we took walk around Union Square to find lots of holiday shoppers, lights, and signs of Christmas all around.
For dinner, we had some Thai food and just the smell of the restaurant made me happy. There’s something so comforting to me about the smell of garlic fried in oil. Reminds me of Mommy.
Anyway, this evening was a nice way to end this year’s Thanksgiving weekend…especially since I spent most of if at home in my pjs. 🙂
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