One of my best friends, Karen, came out for a visit from North Carolina. It was her husband's 30th birthday present to her, but ended up being just as much of a present for me. We had a great time hanging around Sonoma: the plaza park, picinic at a winery, chasing two little boys, etc. We were able to spend one night in San Fran sans kids thanks to Tyler and the generosity of our friend AJ who let us stay in his family's apartment in North Beach for free. These are a few of the touristy spots we hit while in San Fran: cable car, Ghirardelli Square, the Fishersmans' Wharf, beat poet Cafe Treiste, Golden Gate Bridge and then Sausalito.
We crammed a lot into 5 days. We walked through the redwoods in Armstrong park and drove along Highway 1 with the boys on Monday. We stayed up late (for us) talking every night and kept swearing we would go to bed early the next night to no avail.
It was so refreshing to catch up face to face. We have been pretty much "phone friends" since high school except a couple summers we had together during college. We could reminisce middle school and share the light and not so light about life since marriage and kids. Definitely one of the highlights of my summer if not my year.
