Happy Mother’s Day! This year we are away from home and so instead of taking my mom to Lawry’s, I had to just give her a call. That’s a bummer. Thanks for making and bringing all the food a couple weeks ago. I didn’t realize that the Magical House took phone orders!!
I JUST finished sorting and uploading the photos from the weekend when my family came up to visit. It’s always fun to go places with my family and we usually end up with a very well-rounded collection of photos. Here’s a compilation of photos taken by me, Brother, Joy, and Daddy.
This evening, we went down the street to watch the fireworks. A local radio station puts on an afternoon concert every year and then has a pretty cool fireworks show at the end. They closed down The Embarcadero and we got to stand in the street for the show. It was pretty crowded but not unbearable. We took Koa and he didn’t really appreciate all the raucous including all of the motorcycles roaring down the street afterwards. The show was pretty good but I think we missed out on a lot of it because of this big layer of fog hovering over the water. Bummer.
We went on a little outing with the Bangs to Sebastapol and Petaluma today. We tasted wines from Merry Edwards, Siduri, and Novy and came home with bottles of Syrah, Pinot Noir, and Nebbiolo. We then stopped at Petaluma Creamery to taste some yummy cheeses and ice cream. I had some quark for the first time and it was so tasty! I bought some Jersey smoked Jack and lemon quark. Hopefully I can figure out how to use to quark to make a yummy tart or cheesecake. Before heading home, we stopped at a deli and had a pretty tasty tri-tip sammich, which ended our outing quite nicely.
One of the best things about my new job is having some pretty fun co-workers to hang out with. On Friday, we went to Happy Hour for some tall, cold glasses of beer. I also tried beer-battered fried pickles dipped in ranch for the first time and they were awesome! Ranee was a little grossed out and has a pretty picky palate already so I paid her a dollar to try one. The look on her face was well worth it. What a trooper. I decided not to post the photo online (just yet). I may need it later to blackmail her. Muhahaha…
I’ve been going to bed kinda early this week and I’m feeling like I’m back on Pacific Standard Time. In fact, I’ve been doing rather well at work this week. Perhaps my trip to NYC was restful enough for me to feel rejuvenated at work. It’s probably a combination of coming from a course and learning applicable strategies that I can apply right away and having a 4-day work week.
It took me a while to sort through my photos from New York but here they are. They’re pretty random but I guess that’s what happens when you travel alone. Enjoy!
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