Surprise Birthday Trip to San Francisco

For Mike's 34th birthday, I surprised him with a weekend in San Francisco. My mom came from Victoria to watch Oliver while we spend a weekend in the big city. Mike was very surprised, but secretly hoped I was taking him to the Olympics in Vancouver...I didn't plan it THAT far in advance! We had to get up on Saturday at 4:30AM to get to the airport for our 6AM flight, but it was worth it to have the whole day once we got there. I told Mike that Josh was out of town, but he pulled up at the airport to get us. We were BOTH surprised when josh pulled over to pick up Derek! He had arranged for Derek and Dawn to fly down for the weekend too! We went to the hotel (right across from the Ferry Building) and got some lunch. Then I took a nap (so nice!) and Mike, Josh and Derek went for a run.

Then Dawn and Shanna met us and we all walked to the north shore to find the "hat shop" that Josh had been talking about for months. As Mike gets older, he is is more need of hats : ) And he wants to be like Josh....

We went back to the hotel and got all dressed up for dinner. Derek and Dawn snuck in a drink in th elobby before we left...

Dinner was great: long and leisurely. We don't get too many long and leisurely dinners these days, so it was a real treat. This is the night view from our room. So pretty.

Sunday it rained. And we are talking serious rain. So we decided to go to the MOMA. It was the perfect rainy day with no baby thing to do.

Who are those cool guys in those stylin hats?

The only glitch in an otherwise perfect weekend, was that Josh got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign while showing us around his old neighborhood. Poor Josh!