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Monday, April 25, 2011

I left my heart.... in San Francisco

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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