Stern Grove Music Festival

After lounging around all morning, Jessie and I made our way to the Stern Grove Music Festival that takes place every Sunday afternoon during the summer. We got there after it had already started, so it took a while for us to find a spot to sit. The music was pretty good, it was just so incredibly hot and crowded that after drinking some wine and eating some yummy snacks we decided to head out. But we'll definitely be back this summer when Kevin's here and we get there earlier!

The hoards of people enjoying the sunny day in SF!

Me and Jess loving the sunshine!

My first visitor!

8:55 AM Posted by Lisa 1 comments
Lots of people have told me and Kevin that they'll be making their way up to San Francisco sometime to visit us, which couldn't make us happier! Yesterday I had my first visitor, my past co-worker Claudia who I used to work at the Girl Scouts with. With her new job she had a conference up in San Jose this weekend so we decided to meet up during one of her breaks! I couldn't believe the timing of it all when she told me she was planning on being up north this past weekend. It was so great to see her and spend some time with her (even if it was only for an hour during her dinner break from the conference!)

Claudia and me in front of Togo's (I know, not the prettiest backdrop!)

So let us know when you're planning a trip up here...we'd love to see you and show off our new city! :)

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"She works hard for the money..."

I thought an update on work might be nice so I took my camera in today and took some photos to share:
The building where my office is, Alliant Int'l University has half of the 1st floor and all of the 2nd floor, there's an art university and another company that shares the building.

Good ol' Pier 39, directly across the street from my office (it's still exciting to me...I'm afraid all the tourists might get old pretty quick though!

Here's my office! Not much to look at yet, I didn't bring much of my decorating stuff with me, so it'll be a few weeks before I get it looking more like "home" ;)

I've pretty much just jumped right into work, they've put me to work pretty quick so I've been really busy my first three days there! What we're working on heavily right now is going through all 4 years worth of credential student's files and streamlining them into one clear format. So it's basically paper shuffling right now :( but this process is going to make my life a lot easier in the future!

Our new apartment!

My sister and I looked at six apartments over the weekend, but there was one that I really liked and I applied for. Today I got the phone call from our new landlord letting me know that we got the offer! :)

It's an in-law unit (basically the basement of someone's house that's been made into an apartment) that has one bedroom, a full kitchen, living/dining room, full bathroom, and a yard...and the absolute best thing about it...we can have a dog!! We're going to wait to get our new bundle of joy until Kevin gets a part-time job, but I'll definitely keep you in the loop.

The neighborhood it's in is the Portola District in southeast SF. It's not the prime location, I'll be honest, but the more I read about it and drive around the more I feel like it might be the perfect location for us to get our feet wet in SF.

Here are some photos of the new place!

The main house is the dark brown one in the middle,the entrance to our apartment is just to the right of their main staircase

The outside of our apartment (the black gate is the entrance [goes into the kitchen] and the window is to our living room)

The living room/dining room (the window looks out onto the patio)

The bathroom

The bedroom

The back patio (not much to look at but the landlord says they don't use it often so we might do some gardening and
put a table/chairs out for get-togethers!

Drive up to SF

I left at 6:30am this morning and having never made the drive up north on my own, luckily it was a lot better than I was expecting! A little traffic here and there, but it was mostly smooth sailing until the Bay Bridge.

Feeling much more awake after a little Starbucks/Pleasant Valley State Prison, anyone?

Traffic?! I thought I was far from L.A./A view of the Bay Bridge

I got into the city around 1:30pm and met Jessie and her boyfriend Kindrid at Dolores Park.

What do people do with a sunny day up here? Head to the park!/Jessie and Kindrid

Jessie's apartment (they're on the top floor)/Her bedroom (isn't she amazing??)

We went to check out one apartment near Golden Gate Park but it wasn't what we're really looking for. So Jessie and I spent the rest of the afternoon in her apartment, listening to old records and blogging! Tomorrow we're going to hit some more apartments and have dinner with our dad who'll be visiting. Then Monday I start my new job! :)

Sisters blogging away the afternoon

Edmonds family send-off dinner

4:45 PM Posted by Lisa 0 comments
My last night as a Southern Californian was yesterday, so to celebrate the whole Edmonds gang (plus the Rotty family) went out to dinner to Sweetee Thai in Cypress. The food was delicious (as always) and we had a great evening together.

Wor Wonton Soup/Katelyn checking out the menu

Me and Brianne

Joshua & Judith/Thai decorations

Me and Katelyn/Katelyn and her lemon slice pet (don't ask!)

The whole gang!
(L to R: Thomas, George, Kevin, Dorothy, Joshua, Sarah, Judith, Katelyn, Brian, me, Lisa R., Brianne, Judy)

The surprise of the evening came as we were standing around outside the restaurant. George (Kevin's dad) started lining everyone up and passed out little pieces of paper. On his count, the whole group started singing a song that George had made up the lyrics to that went to the tune of "California, here we come!" This was such a surprise and one of the sweetest things anyone has ever done for us. As you can see in the video below, it was a really great send-off! :)

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Packing it up

4:26 PM Posted by Lisa 0 comments
Kevin and I have been really busy these past two weeks packing, packing, packing! Because I'm not going to be there in the apartment the last two weeks that Kevin's there, I wanted to help out as much as I could. So we've packed up about 10 boxes with things that he wouldn't need (some kitchen stuff, photo albums, sheets, etc.) We got really lucky because we have an unlimited supply of moving boxes from Yamaha (where Kevin works), hence all of our boxes with their logo on the side.

Maybe 1/10 of all of our stuff!

Yesterday I made four trips to my car to pack up all of the "junk" we wanted to donate to Out of the Closet...it sure felt good to rid ourselves of unnecessary things before our move!

My car all packed up with stuff to donate

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