Settling In

What do ghosts use to clean their hair?

Sham-BOO!

Happy Halloween! We’ve been in CA for 3 days now and it has been a whirlwind.  Pat  has been all over the Bay area for interviews and networking, and Amy’s been working both in the city and from home. We'd like to point out that the Red Sox won the World Series when we lived in Boston last year, and this year the Giants won, sooooo it's probably because of us.  

We arrived on Tuesday after an oh-so-not-exciting night in Reno.  The drive into California, and then onto Pleasanton, was super easy compared to what we had been doing before.  We were warmly greeted by Erica and went out for a delicious lunch at Blue Agave!  We have never had such good Mexican food, it was amazing! 

Finally starting to see trees again!!

Super excited to be in CA!!

Our first lunch in CA

After lunch, we got half way unpacked, taking the roof top bag down and unloading some of our clothes.  We were super excited for a good night’s sleep before heading in to San Francisco the next morning.  

Rich and Erica were so kind to give us all this great info on the area

Rich cruising in on his scooter 

Gizmo, are our new roomie, is quite the snuggler, if you couldn't tell

Zanzibar the kitty, meow!

On Wednesday, we both went into the city via the BART.  The MBTA could take a fewww lessons from this place.  It is so clean, on time, and organized, basically everything the MBTA is not.  It took us a little under an hour to get into the city.  Amy’s office is in the financial district, and it looks a little bit like Boston’s.  It was a long day for both of us with work/interviews and so after taking a quick little walk around Amy’s office at the end of day, we headed back home. 

Pat did a little exploring on Tuesday 

Yesterday, we had signed up to play in a pick-up soccer game back in the city.  So, we headed out early, hearing that the traffic around here is pretty horrible.  Unfortunately, we never quite found the field, after driving the streets of San Francisco for two hours, and so we turned around.  Those hills are NO JOKE.  Big shout out to Marky Kacps, for showing Amy how to use the E-brake on a steep hill.  While the ride was a nightmare, we did get a good look around the city, and we learned that Amy can drive the streets of SF in a stick shift, without stalling (knock on wood).  

Coming across the Bay Bridge last night

We’re excited to have a low key night with trick-or-treaters and hanging with our gracious hosts, Rich and Erica, and their cute little family of Gizmo, Koda, and Zanzibar.  Also, you guys should check out Erica's new non-profit, Miradi Wild. 

Our unbelievably kind hosts, Erica and Rich!

Also, we’re so so so excited for them that they have a little one on the way in April!!!! And, in other exciting news, we’re ecstatic that our friends Catherine and Chris are engaged!!!!!  

Sorry Catherine, we just had to steal your photo, SO excited for you two!!

Such a big week for us and all these wonderful people!

Happy Halloween!!!

A&P