San Francisco (and that time we biked across the Golden Gate Bridge!)

Some photos from the few days we spent in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend!

San Francisco is such a great city.  We had so much fun adventuring around for two days.  We rented bikes and rode them across the Golden Gate Bridge; wandered around Haight-Ashbury, browsing the music at Amoeba; relaxed in Union Square; ate delicious pastries in Little Italy; drank beers at 21st Amendment Brewery; and walked all over the place, even down to the docks by the Giants Stadium.  Every time we visit San Francisco, there is never enough time to do everything we want to do!  I guess we'll just have to keep coming back. ;)  San Francisco, we love ya!

Last Minute (but awesome) Change of Plans

Whoa!  Busy week (and no time for the good ol' blog).  We got back from our little mini trip up to Northern California late Monday night and I've been running non-stop since.  We didn't end up going to Yosemite, like we planned.  The crazy rim fire kind of ruined our plans for the Yosemite part of our trip and we couldn't get there.  So instead, we made last minute plans to hang in San Francisco for the days we were supposed to be in Yosemite.  And even though we were bummed we couldn't make it to Yosemite again (remember last year?), we had SO much fun exploring San Francisco (partly by bike!).

Photos coming soon!

Enjoy your weekend!*

{Photo -- Biking around San Francisco with our sweet rental bikes!}

San Francisco {California 2012 Recap}

Up, up, and away...

We touched down in California around midnight Friday, September 7th (that's around 3am east coast time!).  Needless to say, we were exhausted and headed straight to our hotel and face planted into the bed.  We had to be well rested for our Saturday morning frolicking around San Francisco!  Our itinerary for this trip had us only passing through San Francisco (since we spent a lot of time there on our honeymoon 2 years ago) on the way to our true first destination up in wine country.  But in our short time spent in San Francisco, we were going to make it worth it!

We kicked off vacation with a stroll through Golden Gate Park.  We roamed through the beautiful gardens, past the windmills that stood tall, and made our way down to the very edge of the west coast.  It was chilly and foggy and perfectly San Francisco. 

Around noon, we hopped in our rental car (a sweet JEEP!) and continued our journey north towards wine country, where we'd be spending the afternoon and all of Sunday.  Of course, not without a stop at this beauty...

 Gets me every time.

San Francisco, you are pretty swell.

(Up next... wine country!)

Vacation Instas

I don't think I could be anymore excited to finally say...

Happy Friday!*

 (does anyone else feel like this week has just taken for-ev-er?!)

I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things over here.

I have hundreds and hundreds of photos to sort through from our trip to California last week.

So until I get around posting those, some vacation instagrams will have to do. :)

I reeeeally could seriously move to California...
It's just so beautiful.

Do you have instagram?

Let's be friends!  (username: annat314)

Have a great weekend!!*

(We're heading over to Hershey, PA this weekend for FarmAid 2012!  Can't wait!)

honeymoon!!

soo... it's the end of october.
and we went on our honeymoon in august.
and i am just now getting around to blogging about it...
better late than never, right?!

we went to california
and it was the best, most magical and fun trip ever*
i present to you,
our honeymoon via photos:

we were in california for 11 days, 10 nights.
we flew in and out of san francisco,
rented a car,
and went on a little roadtrip!
here is our adventures in a nutshell

1st stop:
sausalito
we stayed on a houseboat
and it was seriously awesome!
it was on the san francisco bay
and literally rocked back and forth.

2nd stop:
sonoma valley
we went wine tasting (and beer tasting).
we went to 2 wineries:
ravenswood winery
&
sterling winery
(amazing air ride up to the winery on the mountain!)
then, bounced to 2 breweries:
lagunitas brewery
&
russian river brewery
(super awesome band was playing)

3rd stop:
yosemite national park
we spent 2 days hiking,
seeing gigantic redwoods,
amazing waterfalls,
and incredible views.
pictures don't do this place justice!

4th stop:
pismo beach
got upgraded to the ocean front suite = amazing
learned how to surf!
saw a whale in the wild!
ate amazing italian

5th stop:
santa cruz
home of the craziest people i've ever seen.
stayed in a cute little cottage!
went ziplinging on top of the redwoods!
ate tasty mexican food,
and went to see SambaDa!
(really fun latin band)

6th stop:
san francisco
did lots of touristy things, so fun!
went to the top of the coit tower,
saw the golden gate bridge,
saw the painted ladies,
walked down lombard street,
went to some breweries,
met up with frank & amanda!

then after a fun-filled 11 days of pure romantic honeymoon bliss...
it was time to come home.

california is a beautiful, amazing place!
i know we will travel back there some day!

and that, my friends, is our honeymoon in a nutshell!
:)

(we already have the travel bug again...
...slowly planning our next trip!)