Suddenly it's mid-October! Time flies when you're working 60+ hour weeks and studying for CPA exams. I won't dwell too much on what I did or did not do in the past month. The short story is that I was very busy with work, and in the free time I did have I was studying for what will hopefully be my last exam (I passed the one I took in August!!) BUT, I took the test last Thursday and thought it went fine, so it was time to finally relax and celebrate. In the world's most perfect timing, Katie and Matt came to visit for the weekend and arrived late Thursday night.
They took off to the north on Friday for a little coastal driving and wine country meandering, but unfortunately I couldn't join them because I had an important day at work...
An afternoon boat cruise!
Somehow our organized work events always happen when I have visitors. But yes, my group at work had an afternoon boat cruise to watch the Fleet Week air show practice. We saw lots of cool planes that flew right over our boat, over Alcatraz, and over the Golden Gate Bridge. We spent a good 3 hours out on the water and had beautiful weather! After we got back to shore a bunch of us went to a nearby bar for happy hour and then I made my way back to the Marina to meet up with Katie and Matt.
More boat cruise pictures..
That night we had a fabulous dinner at Green's, a vegetarian restaurant in Fort Mason, which is just a few minutes from our apartment. After our feast and a bottle of wine, we headed to a wine bar on Chestnut St, where we shared a couple more bottles! All in all, a very good day :)
We woke up on Saturday and headed to the farmer's market at the Ferry Building. There, we picked up cheese and crackers, heirloom tomatoes, squash, and pears for the night's dinner. We had invited Katie's friend Nick and his girlfriend over for dinner and Lauren and Lance happened to be in the city then too so we ended up having a nice little dinner party! But before that
happened..it was lunch time. We took Katie and Matt to Tacolicious on Chestnut St and snagged a table outside. Tacolicious, as you can guess from the name, has pretty awesome tacos. It started as a food tent at the Ferry Building farmer's market and got so popular they opened a restaurant. While we were there we chatted with the guy sitting next to us who happened to be from Oklahoma, near where Matt grew up. More on that later..
So after lunch we walked down to the waterfront to take in the highlight of Fleet Week, the Blue Angels. It was actually pretty awesome. Then we headed back to the apartment (a long, 3 block walk from the apartment) and discovered a bunch of people heading up to the roof top at our place for a party. Now..when we moved in we specifically asked if there was roof access and were told that there wasn't..lies! Turns out there is roof access, it's BEAUTIFUL, and there was quite a party going on up there. Who did we run into but our Tacolicious buddy from Oklahoma, who seemed to be the life of the party. Here's what it looks like up there!
So after partying on the roof for a little bit (Jordan and Matt took off to the bar to watch the Michigan game), it was time to run to the store to get the rest of dinner ingredients and start cooking! Katie and Matt took the lead in the kitchen and we put together a pretty delicious meal. Our first time entertaining was a success :)
On Sunday we headed over to the Haight St. area for some wandering and had tapas and sangria for lunch. We had a little time before Katie and Matt had to leave for the airport so we finished off a movie we had all fallen asleep during the night before. It was awesome having them here for the weekend and I can't wait to see them again!
This next weekend I'll have another dose of family, since I'll be stopping in Michigan for a quick 36 hours before heading to DC for work. I should be a little more regular with my blog posts now and hopefully will actually have exciting things to talk about!
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