Sunday, September 7, 2008
Ok, so I guess I've been busy since I've gotten here: settling in, figuring out the city, hanging out with new friends, job searching, doing married stuff... But I never really feel quite right unless I know what my week looks like. Does that make sense?
I started my (second) new job last week. I'm working at a women's athletic apparel store in Noe Valley, and it's pretty cool. So, it was my second week of teaching and first week at the store. It's a lot to get used to, but at least now I have pretty much a set schedule to work other things around.
Maybe I should catch you up. So I didn't end up going to that music festival like I had planned. Instead I went to the Giants game with some friends from church:
And I ate disgustingly unhealthy garlic fries which haunted me for the rest of the day. And it was a great time.Last weekend Chip and I ventured to the Golden Gate Bridge:
And he made his typical "happy-to-be-here" face as I snapped pictures of the two of us. Afterward we saw "Emo! The Musical" and then took the cable car to Fisherman's Warf because Chip wanted a milk shake from In-N-Out. We strolled around the piers a bit before heading back home on the cable car again. (I've discovered that the trick to not having to wait forever in the cable car tourist line is to just go late at night.)This weekend was just as delightful. It happened to be our two-month anniversary on Friday, so Chip brought home some artisan chocolates for me. Plesae note the awesomeness of said chocolates:
Then we finally pulled out our City Walks guide and Chip chose the Chinatown walk. Chinatown is delightfully colorful and annoyingly crowded. Also, everyone's trying to get you to eat at their dim sum restaurant. (Rumor has it, however, that you actually have to go outside of the city to get good Chinese. Go figure.) You can also get lots of bargains on random stuff:
Here's Chip reading from the City Guide in Portsmouth Square as I look on in exaggerated interest:
The weekend was finished off with a visit to the Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival at the Square, where we watched a master chocolatier give a demonstration on making dark chocolate mousse (complete with a delicious sample). Chip won us a Ghirardelli chocolate cookbook, so guess I'll be working on whipping up some scrumptious sweets.
All in all, it's been a good week, aside from the sickness I've had. Just a cold-like ickyness, but that, combined with my second week of teaching and first week at the store made me opt out on running. So I'll be picking it up again tomorrow morning to run 5ish miles before work. Yeah!
