Got me a brand new camera this weekend ...

I decided that my old camera was crap, so I finally got a new one! Hurray! Of course, whenever anyone gets a new camera, they must immediately take pictures of something. Anything. Being that I'm very boring and pretty much just hang around Sunnyvale all the time, I walked out the front door and took some pictures of my street, Oneida Drive. And, OF COURSE, I took tons of pictures of my dogs! Don't worry, I spared you from most of them!







This is my house! If you were here a year ago, you'd never recognize it! It used to be white and blue, with red brick in the front and a red brick planter box. Oh well, everything must change!


The Buddy says 'Don't take pictures of me! Feed me!'


Winnie says 'Is it dinnertime yet?'


The Buddy likes to hide under the table because then I can't pick him up and carry him all over the house!

ERICA!!!

Omg, you guys, Erica came to San Francisco on Saturday! She and Anna are camping their way up California (Anna is from La Jolla) and so I went up to the city to meet them!

HURRAY!

It was so good to see them, I can't believe it's been such a long time, over a year. It was great though, as if I only just left them yesterday. I think Anna put it best when she said she felt like if she just walked through the right door she would be back in St Andrews! Even though we were in San Francisco, we had a great day! We walked around Chinatown, looked at the crazy souvenirs and had a super delicious lunch. Then we walked down to Union Square, back up to Chinatown and then TEN BLOCKS UPHILL to Grace Cathedral. I almost died. For realsies, my legs still hurt!

The Dragon Gate at Grant Ave and Bush St (NOT Grant and Stockton, stupid Lonely Planet!)


Grant Ave, the main drag in Chinatown


The column in Union Square


California pride on California Street, in the Financial District


Chinatown embellishments


The Hills of San Francisco


Grace Cathedral, modeled on Notre Dame in Paris


Oh, the hills!


Erica, in front of Grace Cathedral


The TransAmerica Pyramid is a lot like the Eiffel tower, you can see it from pretty much anywhere in the city! There it is, peeping over the building across from Grace Cathedral!


This is the hill Erica and I walked up. Ugh!


Here we are: me, Anna and Erica! Hurray, we had such a good time hanging out! (Btw, these ladies are tall, but I'm not quite that short, we're standing on a hill!)


A sweet little French church across the street from the parking garage


All in all, it was a lovely day and I'm glad they came up! Hmmm, perhaps I should go visit them now!

Happy Fourth of July!

Not much going on around here, just workworkworkworkwork. I'm currently doing data entry as a temp for a company in San Mateo. I like it, it's not exciting but everyone is really nice. Much better than my last job! The office is nestled up in the hills of San Mateo and I decided to covertly take some pictures out the window so you all can bask in the glory of the Peninsula. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the view out of my window. I don't have a window, I have a cubicle that faces a wall. But this is the view out of the window of the conference room next to that wall.



You can just barely see the hills of Hayward across the bay. I actually tried to take these pictures a couple of weeks ago, but the smoke from the wildfires up in Mendocino was so thick hanging between the hills that you could hardly see anything at all! Thank goodness the wind changed!

This picture is of the driveway where I pull into work every morning. A few minutes late, of course, but I try to make up for it by working hard!



It's really beautiful, as is the drive up Highway 280. California at its best. Even still, commuting 60 miles every day is not fun!