Recent Adventures

Hubby and I have had a few wee adventures over the last couple of weeks. I wont bore you with all the details, but here are a few photos for your viewing pleasure! :-)

 First up was a group trip to Tahoe. As you may know, I'm not much of an outdoors girl, but I was more than happy to hold down the fort while the others went skiing or gambling! Hubby took to the slopes for the first time in about 15 years and had a great weekend! Here's a photo of him looking all handsome in his ski gear :-)

And below is a shot of our group outside the cabin

Next up was a last minute trip to San Francisco. We travelled up last Thursday night and had an awesome meal at Puccini & Pinetti, on Ellis Street. If you ever find yourself hungry in that part of town it is seriously worth checking out. I had the braised short rib and it was one of the most delicious things I have ever had!!

We spent the next day just wandering around the city - one of my favourite things to do :-) Here are some of the highlights:

 This is me having a rest after climbing down then back up Lombard from Coit Tower (which you can see on the hill at the back)

This is beside the Exploratorium where we sat and had a picnic. It was so peaceful, you could easily forget you were in a city!













Here we are with Yoda outside George Lucas's offices :-)












Later on we went for curry and drinkies, and yes,
this really is a barman wearing a Radio Clyde t-shirt!! (FYI, Radio Clyde is our local radio station back in Glasgow)

 

 My new favourite bar is Blondie's on Valencia, where they serve margaritas by the pint *hic*

I'll be honest, neither of us have any idea what or where this is!! From the sequence of photos on the camera it was clearly taken somewhere between the last bar and the hotel, and appears to be a cupcake emporium so I would be very keen to find it again!!









Finally, we rounded off our Easter weekend adventures with a Sunday potluck lunch/dinner at our friends across the road. Hubby and I were on dessert, and we slaved for hours to produce this little rack of goodies

From top to bottom we have:

Miniature trifles



Caramel shortcake, and Oreo cookie truffles



Chocolate cake pops, and mini cupcakes





Our offerings went down well, and according to Hubby, the leftovers were well received at his work on Monday :-)

Well, that's all the excitement for now - tune in next time for ... well .... more mindless nonsense, I imagine!! xxx

Happy New Year!!!

Welcome to 2012!! How did you all spend your New Year's eve? Hubby and I ventured up to San Francisco to a rather interesting club night called Sea of Dreams, which was a wonderful mix of awesome music, trapeze artists and other performers, and some of the most eye popping outfits I have seen!



I would dearly love to have more pictures to show you, but after my first couple of attempts I realised that I was missing about five other things while trying to capture one, so you're just going to have to take my word for it!




We were told that most people dressed up for this night, so hubby and I went for a vaguely Victorian theme. This is not my finest photo (although it is a particularly fine shot of my nostrils) but I couldn't resist showing you how handsome Hubby looks in a bowler hat! I'm actually really disappointed that we didn't get a decent photo of us in costume as we looked pretty awesome! :-(




A fun night was had by all, and I have to thank Rod, Jami & co for a memorable NYE , and also for giving us somewhere to crash until it was time to get the train home! We had a lovely sunny walk through the city this morning to get to the train station - the streets were all but deserted but the after parties were still raging and as we listened to the music bouncing off the surrounding buildings we were both wishing we had the energy to start again! We managed to tear ourselves away though, and after a few hours sleep this afternoon we are both feeling vaguely human again.

So, i suppose now is the time to talk about those pesky new year resolutions. I have been been mulling them over for a few days now and this is what I have come up with:

1) Obviously the top spot goes to that age old classic - diet and exercise. *sigh* I have gone up a dress size since I moved over here and am really struggling to shift it. Shopping for my NYE outfit was the final straw so I am aiming to have a super motivational January to kick start some healthy habits and get back to my former fabulousness!

2) Blog more!! This was supposed to be a way to say hi and keep you up to date on all the wee things we get up to and I have been a bit negligent of late - sorry! I will try and do better!

3) Work on my guitar and sewing machine skills, or lack thereof!

4) This is a silly one, but I want to make an effort to look after my nails better! They are always dry and cracked, and I can pretty much guarantee that anytime we have somewhere to go my polish is always a mess and I don't have time to fix it :-(

That should be enough to keep me busy for now - and hopefully give me lots of ammo to keep you entertained and/or bore you silly for the foreseeable future!!

As a little reward for getting to the end of this offering, I will leave you with this pretty picture of some cupcakes Hubby and I made on Friday. Yes, I know my icing skills need a lot of work, but how cute are the fondant flowers?!?!?!




Until next time ..... xxx