Year One!

Today is the one year anniversary for me and Jeff. We spent the weekend in San Francisco, where we first became engaged. I took ten thousand pictures and this week I'll show a few of my favorite pictures every day for you. This is a hardcore promise so check back every day. But, for now, here's a rundown of our weekend:

I had Friday off work and took the train up to the city and went to SFMOMA. While walking there I saw a guy in a business suit riding a skateboard. He was moving too fast for me to get a picture of him though.

At the museum they were having a 75 year museum retrospective. Lots of great photographs, lots of great art that includes Paul Klee, Andy Warhol, Diego Rivera and much much more. I spent two or three hours there until I couldn't absorb any more art. Then I spent close to an hour in the museum store.

Afterwards, I found the Contemporary Jewish Museum. I didn't have the energy to see the exhibits but I did enjoy the store. They had a plastic shofar horn and a placemat with the Jewish zodiac (totally fictional!).

Then I walked to our hotel in Japantown to meet Jeff. I love the hotel we stay at there. The Kabuki Hotel has sliding doors in each room with Japanese figures on them, a Japanese bathtub and a great view of the city. It's located at the end of the Japantown mall and so I was able to take several walks through the mall throughout the weekend. I bought a dollar bill origami book and was tempted to buy several other books, particularly one that made fun of "Engrish" (their word, not mine!). That night we ate dinner at Fresca, a Peruvian restaurant on Fillmore. Yum!

On Saturday we walked to Hayes Valley and I found some amazing artisanal chocolates from Christopher Elbow and we were lucky enough to come across the annual Alamo Square flea market. It was mostly used stuff that people were selling but there were also a few artists and craftspeople that I enjoyed. By the way, I'm going to create some pages on this blog for food and craft vendors that I endorse so keep an eye out for that!

After that we headed to the main event of the weekend - WICKED!!! I've been begging Jeff to take me there ever since it came to San Francisco and our anniversary was the perfect reason to go. I can't even describe how wonderful it was: the costumes, the music, the theater itself was a work of art. I'm so glad I was able to see it before it ended. Plus, I love witches and I'm thinking I might dress as Elphaba for Halloween.

As for this morning, we went to the Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park to see their Carnivorous Plants exhibit. It's inspired me to work on my own balcony garden. I have a few orchids left over from our wedding that I'm not taking very good care of. Now would be an opportune time to bring them back to life.