Wow - I Must Have Been Busy!

I just realized I never posted anything about what we did for our anniversary. On July 31, I know you all remember. :)

For that matter, I noticed upon looking at pictures in my camera that I've just totally not been the best recapper lately. There are pictures I never even shared with the world like our walk in the "perfect for a horror movie" woods tha we like to walk through. So named, by the way, because one time when we went walking there I was feeling a little "scardy catish" and it was right at dusk and there were lots of shadows and stuff. Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid sometimes. At any rate, here's a little pic of that place. As you can see, it isn't terribly scary....in fact is has birdies. Of course because blogger is inherently evil, I have to post the pictures elsewhere. I think mark-n-melissa.com is the place. Go here. And yes, I do know that I shouldn't be taking pictures while driving...trust me, these were all lucky shots given that I wasn't really focusing on aiming or anything...

I've added a couple of bonus photos from Santana Row in San Jose as well. I figured you all might enjoy seeing them...especially the Grand Marnier vehicle and the license plate. How cool are they?

Then there was the "I'm bored again" day in San Franscisco. I had one of these a few weeks back and did a little picture tour for a few select friends (I know I'm playing favorites - sorry). :) To make it up to you, the most recent version of said tour with pictures is on the mark-n-melissa site of course. Maybe I'll even hunt down the old tour...

And now onto our Anniversary....

It was a pretty nice day on Sunday, July 30 (which is when we celebrated which was good because Mark came home around 8 on our actual anniversary). We didn't go too far away from home this time around since we are trying to watch our finances given that there's no $$ coming in at the moment. Still, though, it was a great day.

We started it off with a little jaunt to Santa Rosa. While here, we grabbed a ton of infomration on fun touristy things to do all over the Bay Area at the Visitor's Center. We also began our quest to see as many Woodstock statues as we possibly could. I think to avoid the annoyance that is blogger, I may just post these pictures to a little photo service and let you all take a peek because, well, Mark is a loon and made many of the pictures quite fun to look at. I especially like the one where he's trying to eat Woodstocks marshmallows...and am sort of giggling thinking about it since he kind of bent in a bit too far the first time (bad guide wife!) and bonked his nose. I was afraid we were going to break the statue or something, but no. The disco woodstock is pretty cool, too. Which are your favorites of the ones we've seen?

We enjoyed lunch at a little restaurant called Checkers. Highly recommended if you get the opportunity to go. We had salads that were very yummy (and allergy free!). :)

Then we headed back down toward San Francisco for a tour of Sausolito, but we took a detour. We thgouht it was a short one to Stinson beach, but no. We ended up going through a good chunk of the Muir Woods (including past the Pelican Inn where MeLissa had once attended an off-site meeting with the Capital Recovery group at PG&E (very cool place!). We took a little bit of a break half-way through to enjoy a scenic overlook. As you can see from the beautiful pictures (also in the yahoo folder), it was a great idea stopping! Once we'd traipsed around a bit, we kept on toward Stinson beach. We finally go there and man, it's definitely a nice (and busy!) beach. We took a little stroll and then jumped back in the car to go to Sausolito.

In Sausolito, we enjoyed wandering and taking photos (on the other site of course) and we even bought our yearly anniversary Christmas ornament. This year we bought a cute little lighthouse. Last year it was a cool little glass ball with sand and shells from Monterey.

Now, at the end of the Woodstock, Stinson, Sausalito slideshow, there's an added treat - a couple of pictures from when my friend Lucie and I went to the Brides Magazine launch party and pictures from my last bridal show. I didn't have time to get flowers this time around so I brought our big martini glass and flled it with lemon drops. It was a simple table decoration and people loved it. :)

I think that is pretty much the recap. Head on over to the pictures for the fun part of the post. :)