California Love

We went out to Los Gatos, a burb outside of San Jose, to visit Matt's old college roommate, his wife Lisa and their 5-month old daughter Anna Marie last weekend. It was a great visit and Anna Marie is quite the cute baby. On Sunday, we went up to the Ritz at Half Moon Bay (a coastal town south of San Fransisco) for a short vacation. It was fabulous- the hotel is located on the Pacific Coast and the weather was perfect (60-ish in the mornings with highs in the upper-70's in the afternoons). Small trivia fact -- If the hotel looks familiar in the pictures, it was the filming location for the movie America Wedding (the third installment of the American Pie movies that came out a few years ago). We walked down to the beach every morning and afternoon to play in the sand, visit the seals and collect shells, sat around the fire pit every evening to make smores and enjoy the sunset, and ate lots and lots of seafood. It was by far one of the most relaxing and enjoyable vacations we have taken and David did wonderful.

We took Southwest Airlines out to California, which means we had two stops both ways resulting in a total flight time in excess of 6 hours (we had free rapid reward tickets that were about to expire so we figured worth the hassle). David was so great that the flight attendants on both flights commented on what a great flyer he was and the pilot even took him up to the cockpit during on of the stops to show him around and let him push buttons (how cool is that?). In the interest of full disclosure, however, we did load up the ipad with a few episodes of Mickey Mouse that we used for backup when he got restless. We still don't let David watch television at the house, so he is pretty amused when you play the cartoon card. 

On Wednesday afternoon, we headed into San Fransisco to meet up with Ruth, who I use to work with at Fulbright, and her wife, Elisa. I talked to Ruth practically every day of my pregnancy with David and she left the firm shortly after David was born to go do something meaningful with her life (I know, who knew that there were more fulfilling things in life than practicing corporate law), so it was really cool for her to meet David now that he is a mini-person. We had a great dinner and it was nice catching up. While in San Fran, we also went on a bay cruise, walked around Mission district and went shopping in Union Square. All super fun.

And now for the photographic evidence...

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