my love for all things SF...including danny tanner.

Well, what would a weekend mini-break to San Francisco be without driving by the Full House house?! Don't front, you know you wish you got to see where Uncle Joey lived.

Last Friday Ben and I, along with our friends Mike & Melinda, flew off to SF to be with our other friend Len for the weekend. It was a weekend trip discussed before Len was even seconded to SF for 6 months and eventually, planned and booked.

our view of SFMOMA from our weekend apartment

Our much owed and overdue family portrait for Len's picture frame (that we got him for his birthday...last year. :|)

Even though this wasn't my first time in SF, since the other 3 have never been before, I got to fall in love with SF all over again through their eyes. Plus! The great thing about having your own local tour guide is you get to visit those pocket neighbourhoods you wouldn't have found otherwise and eat a lot of yummy SF food (ahem...like In & Out burger that I requested in homage to Si and Almonds! YUM!).

View from the top of Lombard Street, with the whole top half of my body hanging outside the window ...ALL the way down.

Had to include this one little shout out to our TT awe!

By Brina & Rod's recommendation from their visit last year, we went into Golden Gate Park and walked around the beautiful Japanese Tea Gardens. We also checked out the Asian Art Museum and in hindsight, wished we did more than take pictures of the M.H. de Young Memorial Building.

Len, Tiffany (another expat living in SF) & me enjoying the Tea Gardens.

Asian Art Museum

M.H. de Young Memorial Building

Sunday we drove out to Sausalito for a gorgeous brunch on one of their many patios over looking the city, as well Len took us up this crazy mountainside that gave us some pretty awesome golden gate bridge photos.

A view of the bridge heading back to the city.

The classic SF postcard shot. Jealous much?

Of course we all wished we had an extra day (or five) in the city to check out the tons of other things we wanted to do on our list but, for the short amount of time we had in the city, it was planned oh-so-perfectly.

Until next time, San Francisco...

living vertigo

We're back from our San Francisco trip! What I knew of this tucked away city before January 26th was so little, and still very little now, but I have seen that the people are helpful and sincere and the architecture flows across the landscape like a wave of beautiful, colourful and carefully placed boxes. We walked up and down all sorts of streets and felt welcome and a part of everyone's day. It is a wonderful feeling to be in a big city but not feel lost.

Every day was an adventure. There was so much to see and do and experience. We went for this long weekend trip with the plan of just being in the city and hanging out, which is definitely what we ended up doing. Maybe next time we'll rent bikes and do some trails, or make our way onto the Golden Gate Bridge or play disc golf in Golden Gate Park.

Top 5 things we enjoyed:

1. THE EXCITEMENT OF BEING SOMEWHERE NEW

2. TRAVELING BY THE EFFICIENT CABLE CARS AND OTHER PUBLIC TRANSIT

3. CONSUMING YUMMY FOOD

4. HANGING OUT AND DRINKING COFFEE

5. STROLLING THROUGH THE JAPANESE TEA GARDEN