CHiPs Style Tourism

You know how you can live somewhere for awhile and you kind of forget how there is all this awesome stuff to see and do? Yea well at least that happened to me, so when my friend Kelda emailed us about getting the Go Car SF Groupon I was all over it. We decided to go this past weekend and it was soooooo much fun. I mean seriously, combine the 'mini car that drives like a motorcycle' fun factor plus stylish helmets and shades and basically we looked like this but cooler:

Weekend Recap

Flowers make everything better...apartment looks fancy now 

Pre-dinner party for friends (check out those americanadian prints)

Got a third roommate for the weekend...I am in love. His name is Dog and he is awesome. 

Dog loves running on the beach

 Dog also loves treats...just look at that focus

 Dog was braving the freezing cold water at Ocean beach

 Freezing cold but gorgeous...I love this city

 Me and my new bff mid-run

 Me and my new bff that night...I think someone got a little tired running on the beach

 Sunday walk found this place...I need to check it out! Love me a good pub

 Especially one with an awesome red door (my mom dreams of a day when her door is this color)

 General SF pretty

Sunny, clear day = great view

A little American pride to finish off the weekend...I am also working on finishing off the rest of my peanut butter pretzel brownies...umm yea thank you Joy.  

Cooking like an American

Work has kept me crazy busy lately (working on weekends sucks! Especially when you're fielding calls from clients...I mean really! Don't they want to enjoy their Easter too?!?) so I've got some catching up to do with the blog. I haven't been able to cross anything off the list in awhile but I have some activities in process: #26 Join a kickball team (done and will fill in details soon), #20 Go to Vegas (hotel is booked, just got to get a good deal on a flight) and #27 Join the army (yikes stay tuned on that one). 

So in catching up, I thought I would start with a cooking class I did a couple of weeks ago with some friends at Kitchen on Fire in Berkeley. We signed up for the Art of the Wok class and since we made 'American' Chinese food, I figured I could talk about it here :-). It was sooo much fun and the food was delish! Seriously, I'm like a wok pro at this point. 

Happy Good Friday!

If only I was small enough (and lived in Dallas, TX) to ride this patriotic pony...so awesome!

2 Americanadians + SF = Crazy times

I've let my American blog-ness fall by the wayside...I could easily blame it on work (which is crazy right now) but really I blame addicting TV shows like Giuliana and Bill. In 48 hours, I've watched every episode available on Netflix....yup two seasons in two days because 'I need to know what happens!!'. Lets think about that for a second, I watched a reality show filmed 2-3 years ago for two days in order to find out what happens to two people I don't know...umm yea could have saved a lot of time using good ol' Google (which has a super cool architecture logo today btw). But whatevs! I totally had a partner in crime because Shay came to visit!!!! And she agrees understands my love of Bill Rancic...if you don't get it just watch the show...he's awesome.

'Merican Beer Headgear

It turns out that not only are there some awesome ways to hold your beer, there are some equally awesome ways to show your beer allegiance on your head in the form of hats. And not just standard baseball hats, no no no this goes further ...much further. Sun protection + stylish + letting people know what you would like to be drinking = win win win.

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Patriotic Moment...

Saw a little American pride on my way through Chinatown tonight on my way to North Beach for dinner at Cafe Divine (mmm Gingerbread cake)