A Day in SF

One day Eddy and I just decided to take a day in SF and just do some touristy stuff. We weren't planning any museum visits, but we just happened by the Asian Art Museum and noticed it was a free Sunday so we couldn't resist stopping in.

We also went down to Ghiradelli Square.

The chocolate machines are great, but really, this is my favorite thing about Ghiradelli Square.

We also went to Golden Gate Park to see the buffalo, but they weren't really out and about, so instead we headed down to our second favorite attraction in the park:

That's right. SF Model Yacht Club. We actually saw two model yachts on the water that day!

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A Decade of Photo Shoots

Recently Eddy and I realized we've been together almost a decade (married 5 years.)  We figured that's sort of a big deal, so we have a lot of fun adventures planned over the next few months.

When we found out that our friends Emily and Neal were coming to San Francisco and that Emily was going to do some photo shoots while she was here, we thought it would be awesome to kick off our 10 year celebration with some fun pictures.  The last time Emily took our photos was for our elopement:

There's Emily hard at work.

And there's Neal (he married us!).

And here we are aboard the Maid of the Mist on Niagara Falls tying the knot. (We totally did it before we found out about Pam and Jim, btw.)

Emily also photographed our family ring ceremony in St. Louis:

There's Neal doing that marrying us thing again (this time with bunny ears!)

It only seemed appropriate to do a photo session with Emily and Neal 10 years later. This time we picked a sunny spot in SF.

And we brought books.

And we brought quilts.

And we skipped about and generally behaved like dorks.

She even got some cute ones of us individually (which is harder to do than you might think.)

We even snuck a picture or two of Emily and Neal that day.

If you like the beautiful pictures Emily took, you should also check out the blog post she made about the photo shoot. It's awesome (and was posted in a much more timely manner than this one!)

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Japan... I mean, San Francisco

Eddy met up with me on my California adventure.

We did Chinatown (alright, we went there to buy waving kitteez)

We cruised by Eddy's old SF apartment.

We played around at Haight-Ashbury.

We also did a little road trip up into the mountains around the bay area.

And down by the water near Berkeley.

We saw some CA sights, like this "love shack." We think that greasy sack on the windshield might be filled with weed.

We also went to the Japanese Garden.

I guess this trip was basically the same as Japan. But with hippies.

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Librarians Descend on Monterey

A couple of weeks ago, I traveled to Monterey, CA for Internet Librarian.  While there, I got to check out some of the beautiful surrounds.

California was beautiful. Everything was blooming. Apparently, I am allergic to this.

Right after the conference I traveled to San Francisco with my work friends Rachel and Sean. Here we are at Ghiradelli, but through this photo, you basically get an idea of what the whole trip was like--Sean playing with his iPhone, Rachel taking a picture of Sean with her iPhone.

Seriously, though, we had a lot of fun. We rode the cute cable cars.

And we walked around Fisherman's Warf.

Rachel and Sean and I had a great time traveling together--that is, when they weren't calling me "sniffles" and leaning away from my sneezes.

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Nicci is Less Than 30

This year, I had to spent a lot of my birthday in the airport on the way home from San Francisco.  But Eddy did get me some nice presents.

He also took me to Crave Cupcakes

I guess that makes up for this miserable 5 am shot of me at SFO.

I am going to do my very best to enjoy this last year of being in my 20s!

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