February

February seemed to fly by even faster than January. I do realize that February is shorter than January and that may have something to do with it, but there also was lots of stuff going on then too. Two weeks after our Colorado trip, we were off to San Francisco to visit Ben and Anisha. Once we got home, I started a new part-time job at the local hospital and Dan left for a business trip in Michigan. Once I started working at the hospital (I basically worked on every day I had off from CVS), the days sure seemed to fly by even faster.

Our trip to San Francisco was short but a lot of fun. We flew in on Friday and Ben picked us up at the airport (Anisha was at work) and showed us a few sights before having to go to class.

This is the few of downtown San Francisco atop a hill not far from their house. Pretty cool huh?

Then we went to the beach. After seeing a few things we took the shuttle down to campus and then the Muni downtown and walked around. It was fun the see the city and all the different wharfs as we walked around. Of course we ended our walking tour at Ghirardelli Square.

Too bad I am not the biggest fan of chocolate :( Oh, but don’t worry they still served some pretty yummy ice cream!! Yum Yum!

Ben then picked us up and we went and stopped at his favorite donut shop to see the giant donuts (they’re as big as cakes, wow!). They didn’t have any giant donuts left so we got regular sized ones for breakfast the next day. As for dinner that night, Chinese take out was on the menu.

We had a hard time finding a parking spot when we got to the restaurant (We found out this isn’t that uncommon there in San Francisco), so we left Dan in the car while we ran in to order the food. We had parked in front of someone’s garage but when we got back to the car to wait for the food to be done, Ben turned the car off while we waited. BAD IDEA. . . We couldn’t get he car to start. Then the owner’s of the garage we were parked in front of came home and we couldn’t move. Luckily he was able to jump start our car and we got out of there!!

Saturday morning was spend getting a new battery for Ben’s car. . . . Then we were off to hike in a red wood forest on the other side of the golden gate bridge.

The trees were amazing!! and huge!!

Here’s Dan inside one of the trees. . . . . . .

There was one last pit stop before we went back to the apartment.

As you can tell from the photos, it’s a littler greener there than here in good old AZ.

That night we went to the Cheesecake Factory on the top floor of Macy’s. No pictures from dinner but it was an interesting experience trying to find a parking spot (well actually there was one particular parking garage that Ben was determined to find that we drove around a while trying to find . . . we found it in the end!) and walking through many floors of women’s clothes to get to the top of the department store for the restaurant. On the plus side, there is plenty of things to look at while you’re waiting for a table!

Sunday we went to church and then we came home so that we could be rested and ready for work the next day. We had a great time in San Fran and can’t wait to go back and hike through the red forests again!

NOTE: We need to get better at taking pictures. We didn’t have any good group photos of the four of us :(