Birthday weekend in San Fran...

We had such a great time in San Francisco last weekend. Jeremy did such a great job at making my birthday weekend so memorable. We stayed with our friends Kory and Ashley Knell, and loved spending time with them. I'm just getting to posting pictures, and since we did lots of stuff, bear with the amount of pictures.

We started out Friday morning with a brunch from Mama's cafe in Washington Square. We waited for an hour for brunch.....yes an hour! I didn't want to wait and so I asked everyone in line if it was really worth an hour wait, and they all said it definitely was. So we decided to wait (which is difficult for a preggo to wait to eat), but it was as they said........absolutely delicious! A must if you ever go to San Fran.

We then headed to Coit Tower to see the views of the city. Here is us at coit tower, and the views weren't as great as they could have been because of the smog and fog so it is just us at the tower. :) There's my 5 1/2 month preggo belly.

We then headed to Fisherman's warf, and unfortunately didn't take any pictures there. Jeremy had never been so seeing the touristy stuff was a must. Later that night we went out for some Thai food (my favorite) at a place called Osha's. It was so fabulous. I got some pumpkin curry and ended the night with a mango rice dessert. Mmmmm, I love curry! Later we took the trolley to Ghiradelli square for some hot chocolate......I wanted a sundae but my belly couldn't hold much more food. Here's us on the trolley and then at Ghiradelli square.

The next day we slept in a bit as all that walking was a lot harder on me than I thought it would be. We got up and headed to China Town....it's so fun to just walk a couple blocks and feel like you are in another country. We bought some authentic Chinese food.....some of it was interesting, and some of it was actually pretty good. I got some Chanel glasses for $10 and wanted to find a purse but no luck. We then found this cool little Fortune Cookie factory where they make the fortune cookies right in front of you. They even let Kory and Jeremy make one (lets just say that Jeremy took a circle piece of paper, folded it in half, and then in half again......not so much like a fortune cookie).

Later that afternoon we took the PCH along the coast to head south to Palo Alto. We stopped at a cute little cafe in Half Moon Bay for a small lunch, and then headed for the Ritz Carlton. I had been there for one of my birthday's for brunch and so wanted to stop and show them the views. To our luck there was a cool Motorcycle convention there showing really old and cool bikes. It was called the Legend of the Motorcycle . There were hundreds of people there and supposedly anyone famous that likes motorcycles was there. We saw Jason Lee from "My name is Earl", but that was the only star we saw. They said Sandra Bullock was there earlier with her husband Jesse James, but we missed her I guess. It was fun to walk around and see all the cool bikes and passionate biker dudes in their leather gear. This was a bike from 1904....pretty cool to see them that old.

After Half Moon Bay, we went to Palo Alto for some dinner at Bella Luna on University Ave. It was great Italian food, and I just love the atmosphere of Palo Alto. Here are the four of us at dinner......notice how I never take off my sweatshirt the whole trip(it was so cold there).

Kory and Ashley were going to Michael Buble in Jose that night so we dropped them off and went back to Palo Alto. I showed Jeremy where I lived, we stopped at Stanford's campus, and then went back to University Ave for some gelato. Oh and it was so fabulous...love that stuff. I just loved driving around seeing all the places I used to go when I lived there. I love Palo Alto and wish we could afford to live there. Maybe someday....

So the last day of our trip we went to church in the city, and then back to Kory and Ashley's for brunch. Ashley made me some waffles, orange rolls, and fruit for my birthday. It was so yummy and thoughtful of Kory and Ashley. After lunch we decided to drive up to the golden gate bridge, Saulsalito, and Tiburon. We did the cool Golden Gate pictures (where it was so windy), and then went to Tiburon to look at the million dollar homes on the water. We even went through a few homes pretending we were looking.......kind of awkward talking to the realtor, but fun to see.

We got home that night around 9pm and I came home to a fun surprise party of family and friends waiting at our house. It was so sweet of Jeremy and my friends to put together. We had some fabulous chocolate cake and the best part of the night was seeing my little Jackson again. We missed him so much and are so grateful to Thelma, Jeremy's mom, for watching him for us.

It was such a fun weekend and I couldn't have asked for better company. Kory and Ashley, thanks so much for allowing us to come crash with you and take up your weekend. You both were such great hosts. And thanks to my hubby who always makes me feel so special and loved. I love you babe!