Detroit in the house

This weekend we had our first cali visitor... Scott came in on Friday evening around 7:30.

We made a bee line to BevMo! the best wine/booze/snack store this side of the Mason Dixon line! we bought a GIANT bottle of jim beam. Once we got back to our place, we walked to dinner.

Let me first say that our apartment exits right to downtown mountain view, which is ALL restaraunts...it is insane. So we went for Chinese and then home to have some drinks, play some cards, and catch up.

In the morning-ish we headed to san fran. Scott wanted to drive over the golden gate bridge, so that is how we got started.

Then we went to haight and scott street for some photo opps. After that we headed to Pier 39, where we ate a litle snack and then as we walking around the pier we found the sea lions.

We got home in time to order a pizza, have some more drinks and cards.

The next day we headed to san jose to the winchester mystery house. It is the house that Sarah Winchester ( of the winchester gun fame) moved to once her husband and daughter died. Appearantly a psychic told her that she needed to move from connecticut to the west and build a house big enough to fit all the spirits of the people that were killed by the Winchester gun. So she bought this giant house and kept building and renovating for 38 years , 24 hours a day. the house has 160 rooms. we could only go into like a hundred of them. It was crazy. there were cabinets that only held about 1 inch if space and a door that opens up to the outside, which then leads nicely to an 8 foot drop. A door that leads straight down into a kitchen sink, a stairway that takes you up only one floor but has like 78 steps.

after a 3 1/2 hour tour, we headed to redwood forest, where we mostly drove through it... because i kept getting lost. We drove past the same gold course 3 times... and don't think that i didn't beep every time i drove by. tony was laughing so hard that i thought he was gonna puke! i know, i am 30-but i sure don't know how to act like it!

we got home late, made some dinner of dill pickle soup , pierogi ( store bought, waah-wan) and scott made som kielbasa.

Tony and i had an early class so we went to bed early and scott watched tv i think.

The next morning tony and i had to recert for our pediatric advanced life support and it took all friggin day.. so when we got home, scott had made dinner. if i worked a 9-5 job, i think i would need to hire someone to make dinner for me everyday! Fortunately i don't so i can save some money!!!

We had dinner and a nap and then went to check out a bar in our neighborhood. We drive by at nearly every day, but we couldn't tell if it was a eurotrash or just trashy from the folks that linger outside of it...

so we figured we would check it out while we had some back up :)

plus, tony and i are tough, but scott not only is tough, he LOOKS tough.

It turned out to be not so bad... a bit of a metal bar, but a nice place. the people were so nice and kept telling us that we should come there more often. so i guess we made some 'regualr' bar friends.

we stumbled home and hung out a little while longer. But we couldn't stay up too late, scott had a flight to catch in the morning, so we went to bed and took him to the airport the next morning..

although first i called my dad to see how he was doing ( he had knee surgery) and i was going to wish him a happy birthday, only to realize as he was answering the phone, that his birthday was the day after!

so he got birthday wishes two days in a row.. i wish i was home to hang out with him, not just for his birthday , but because i was home when my mom had her surgery...

anyway now i am getting ready to watch a movie with my husband- we have a long weekend of work ahead of us.