Today (7/8) we spent another beautiful day in San Francisco. We took BART into San Francisco again after breakfast and got off at Embarcardero station. We walked over to the water and walked out onto Pier 5, which offered a beautiful view of Treasure Island, the Bay Bridge and the...
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I am recapping the three weeks of fun that I had with my family this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. Today (07/30) was absolutely hands-down amazing. I had been looking forward to hiking in Arches National Park (near Moab) since the day my Mom...
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My parents will be here in less then 72 hours. But, wait a minute. Not only will my parents be here in less then 72 hours, no, they’re bringing along – completely surprisingly and unexpectedly – my cousin Basti (who is more like a little brother to me). This was...
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Warning: this post is going to be photo-heavy. Besides spending the 4th of July weekend with my friend Susi, I also did something completely for myself… it involved about an hour of driving, dinner for one at a local diner and finding my way to the HP Pavillion to see...
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I had a fantastic holiday weekend at my friend Susi’s house in the Bay Area. I was so glad I was able to get out of ‘scorching hot’ Sacramento last weekend, because the temperatures reached the triple digits and that’s definitely too hot for me. The East Bay, however, always...
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Hi lovelies, how was your weekend? After we got buckets of water dumped on us last week here in Northern California, Saturday was beautiful. Chilly, but beautiful and sunny. We decided spontaneously to pay a visit to the Sacramento Zoo. To be honest, I only wanted to go there for...
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Last Thursday, J and I had tickets for Jeff Dunham’s show “Identity crisis”. I think I never actually told you about the two great Christmas present ideas I had for J last year – 1) was a Roku player (Internet streaming box for the TV – yeah, yeah, we still...
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To be honest, I’ve never been much of a gamer. My sister and I never had a computer of our own when we still lived with my parents and we definitely did not own any computer games or game consoles. Occasionally we would be exposed to video games at our...
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