Going backward a few weeks...

I just got pictures from a few weeks ago. Tim & I attended our friends', John & Mary Ellen, wedding up in Napa. They had an incredible event. Friday night at Domaine Carneros and the wedding was at the Culinary Acadamy at Greystone.
Link to Greystone
The food was incredible, the weather was cool, but beautiful, and they had a mariachi band. I don't usually like mariachi, but they were great! We, of course, forgot our camera, so we just had someone email us a few pics. Here they are!

New York City Trip

Our vacation was a really a work trip for Tim, but I did get to enjoy a little down time in NYC this past weekend. Tim had work meetings the majority of the weekend, but we did have time to wander the city. It was my first time to visit the city in the fall, so it was nice to have real fall weather. We didn't get to any
museums, but I think I walked most of the city. We went by the WTC site, which was just huge. They actually started finding more remains the day we were there.

Some highlights of our visit:
- Whoa! The prices of hotels are outrageous! I thought SF was expensive, but I knew nothing! (We were at the W at Union Square...very nice, but I'm still in shock over the prices)
- I spent a great amount of time trying to find cute maternity clothes. They still stink...even in NYC. I did get to shop for all sorts of cool strollers, though.
- I did NO homework! But, I did hang out in the bookstores at every chance. I saw the funniest thing when I was passing the Teen Section of Barnes & Noble. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that both Kim Catrell (Sex & the City fame) and Bill O'Reilley (Fox News) had Self-Help books for teens. What? Are you kidding me? What a spectrum of advice!
- We had great dog watching throughout the city! I thought SF had a lot of dogs, but NY has us beat.
- On Sunday, Tim was able to steal away for dinner with our friends, Tom & Tracy and their son, who used to live in SF. At least Tim got a little socializing in.

Check out the pics...WTC site, some pics in Central Park, a picture of me 5 months pregnant, picture of Union Square & our hotel (W). The Blog website is having problems posting pictures today, so I'll add more later to the post!

Pictures & Links from my parent's visit

Mom and Dad left on a midnight flight last night, but we squeezed in lots of driving and playing with electronic gadgets. I finally got the right cable for the video camera, so I am including the link to my first movie using iMovie. It shows Dad at Pebble Beach, which is really beautiful.

Link to VIEW Dad's Pebble Beach Movie

Or, Link to DOWNLOAD the movie

We also tripped on a "casting call" for a pet calendar in Carmel. We had to forget about the cute shops and hang out with 400 dogs for a few hours on the beach. It was better than a dog show!

Nita & Kirby Visiting in SF

Mom & Dad arrived in SF yesterday from Louisiana. We have already gone to Ikea and to the Cookin' Resale Kitchen Store in SF. There is some shopping that you just can't do in Zachary. Mom made me chicken and rice for a early birthday dinner.

Christmas (for the next three years) came very early. Mom & Dad gave us a new video camera and enough baby clothes for Baby Anderson for the first six months of baby. I have so much blue clothes and blankets that I guess I'm really having a baby now! Guess we're going to be taking lots of videos for the Louisiana grandparents.

We're now at the downtown SF Apple store. Dad is shopping and taking an Apple workshop while I am waiting to get some service on my computer. Tomorrow, Dad will get to play golf at Pebble Beach. So, I hope to have some good pics from Carmel and Pebble Beach tomorrow night.

Beautiful San Francisco Weekend

We are finally getting our summer in San Francisco. That is, our real summer is late September through November. Sunday could not have been a better day. Even though Tim was sick, I had to drag him out of the house to ride around in his convertible. On great days like that, it seems okay to be poor living in SF! So much to do...we went and watched the Blue Angels from the Presidio. It was our best vantage point since seeing the Blue Angels (during Fleet Week) for the first time seven years ago. Check out this link of great pictures from Fleet Week and the Blue Angels on the San Francisco Chronicle.
It was too nice to head home after, so we went to Ft. Funston after for quality dog watching! Now, I just hope that the weather holds for my parent's trip to SF this upcoming weekend.

Procrastinating Homework

There is far too much going on in San Francisco to be motivated for schoolwork. Prenatal yoga with renegade French yoga instructure in the AM. I can hear the Blue Angels flying overhead now. I think I'll go see them tomorrow. The Bluegrass festival (free) is also going on, but I'm musically illiterate and don't want to go alone. (Tim is hanging drywall at our friend, PK's house today). I had to buy a new cell phone because my old one finally died today. This means my new phone is a camera phone and I have no excuses to not take pictures. Nothing exciting yet...I just snapped a picture of the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park on my way home. Maybe it will be recognizable...it's even better in person.

Experimentation Post

This is a post to experiment with blogging. I'm getting a little harassed by family and friends that I am not taking pictures or updating everyone on the happenings and adventures of the San Francisco Anderson's these days. It's a little slow to use my mac webpage, so we'll try this out.