Hello California

We safely arrived back in California on Saturday after a beautiful wedding followed by a wonderful vacation week at the beach, and we're married! Jordan even had a stretch limo pick us up from the San Jose airport Saturday night! It came in handy since a regular taxi would not have been able to fit all our luggage. Once I have some pictures to share, I'll write more about the wedding but for now I'll just share what we've been up to the past few days.

We're still living in Cupertino near Jordan's work, but just getting started with the search process to find an apartment in downtown San Francisco. It will be an hour commute for Jordan after the move, but at least he gets a nice free shuttle provided by Apple. I'm pretty excited about moving and getting settled in our first real apartment together. Right now, all of our shower gifts are still in boxes because we figured it would be pointless to unpack and repack a month later. We hope to be moving within the first few weeks of August, but it could be sooner than that depending on what we find.

I haven't quite gotten used to the time change yet, so that coupled with the fact that the sun shines directly into the apartment in the morning, there's no air conditioning, and the crows are loud..we've been getting up very early and have barely made it to 11pm some nights. Aside from running lots of errands and grocery shopping, we've spent most of our time looking at apartments online and perusing for a new bedroom set, which might be one of our first big

purchases after we move.

Yesterday we celebrated the 4th in Walnut Creek at Kimberly and Jason's. They had just flown in from NC, so Jordan and I drove up for some pool time. We also tried out two recipes from one of our cookbooks, and they turned out to be delicious! Although according to Jordan, they would have been difficult to screw up. The fancy titles are "Seared Beef Tenderloin Steaks with Dark Beer Reduction and Blue Cheese" and"Skillet Asparagus and Roasted Bell Peppers". Definitely worth trying again. We've been pretty good about cooking at home the few times I've visited, so trying some new recipes will make that even more fun. Now following all those cooking and baking blogs might come in handy!

Our lovely meal (excuse the iPhone quality and lack of user skill). We also decided we need another side to fill up the plate!

Aside from apartment hunting and packing, over the next few weeks I'll be running errands to make my name change and California residence official, and will have to start studying for those pesky CPA exams again. Although, the good news is I have two out of the way :)