Our First House Guest!

We just had our first visitor from the east coast - Kathy came to visit for her birthday! She flew back into her birthday on the red eye last night and we miss her already! Happy Birthday Kath!


We had a fantastic whirlwind tour of the bay area. We hit Sausalito to check out all the wedding details! Kath wasn't prepared for the heat - since we told her it would be jeans and t-shirt weather and it was actually REALLY warm here Wednesday! So warm we hit the beach in the afternoon - Ted insisted!! Yes Ted - the newly tanned Californian!!

The weather did get back to SF normal on Thursday when we hit foggy ocean beach for a breakfast at Louis' Diner on Ocean Beach before heading east to Napa for the night - where the weather was warm again.

Napa was beautiful and we definitely made the most of it!! Goody started us off on the right foot with wine delivered to our room - who knew wine tasting could still be enjoyed thoroughly with a slight hangover :) We enjoyed the wine post our surprise facials from Ted! We learned lots about wine on Friday and tasted many. Our favorites for those heading this way; Pine Ridge - yummy wine and really nice; Silverado - beautiful; Vine Cliff - great wine and very interesting and fun tasting! I also decided we needed to reconnect with my dad by having lunch at Wine Country Kennels with lots of other pooches while we tromped around Napa.

On the way back from Napa we made a stop so Kath could see the redwoods! Muir Woods is on the way home - well sorda, a short 30 minute windy road excursion off the beaten path - but well worth it to see the big trees! Ted got inspired to take us up to the top of Mt Tamalpais to see the sunset. Despite the scary drive it was worth it!! Kath and Macko hung on for dear life in the backseat and I swerved the Pathfinder up through the wilderness. But once up there we all enjoyed the view!

Our last driving adventure was a trip down Lombard Street - San Francisco's second but most famous curviest street. For those who are curious Vermont Street in the Potrero Hill neighborhood is technically the curviest!

Thanks for coming to visit us Kath!!! Now we are busily getting the house back in order for our next guest....Lynn will be here on Tuesday! Jay is coming to SF for training so Lynn is joining him for a few days! We are really looking forward to seeing them both and making sure they get as fun a visit as our first guest!! As you can see we are getting this SF tour guide thing down - so give us a call and come out for a visit!

Love Maria, Ted & Mack