A couple weeks ago, I met up w/ one of my girlfriends from Phoenix for a girls trip to Cali. I was SO long overdue for a getaway... With a few day break between the end of classes and finals for me, I decided that was a perfect time to go do some relaxing and site seeing.
We stayed with one of our cute YW leaders from when we were young, and had a great time catching up!
Day 1: we hit up Union Square in San Fran and did some pretty serious shopping! We hit up tons of stores, got checked out (not in a good way) in Saks Fifth Ave... Nothing to make you feel good like a service person giving you the "you don't belong here" look... We got a kick out of looking at the 3000$ hand bags though! After lots of shopping, we headed to the pier and ate at the Boulevard. It was a delicious (and quite pricey) meal... which is nice to do sometimes.
Day 2: We hung around in San Ramon (where we were staying). I got in my 12 mile run- which was SO hilly- yikes! :) Then we went to lunch at a yummy place with our friend Jen. That night Natalie and I "doubled" with Jen and her husband and went to see Source Code. It was fun to just lounge a little bit without kids or responsibility... sigh.
Day 3: Hooray for Monterrey! We actually drove down to Carmel first, spent a few hours, but were more excited to go to Monterry... and so we went. We hit up the most divine bakery. I ate so many baked goods on this trip (which-for anyone who knows me- are my true weakness). We checked out the cute shops, had gelato, stocked up on yummy stuff from Trader Joes (which I WISH they had here), and ended up hitting some more outlets on our drive back (they had a Pearl iZumi outlet that I was SO excited about!!) We were already late getting back, but we decided to hit up another show, and went to see Soul Surfer...which was good. I will say, that I love Carrie Underwood, but she can't act.. ha!
Day 4: We packed up & headed home. Hooray for old friends, and good getaways to rejuvenate and gear us up for getting back to life.
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