Back to Back Weekends in the City

Yep, that’s right – I went up to the Bay Area 2 weekends in a row… Last weekend it was for family, and this weekend it was for friends.


Every year my 4 girlfriends from high school and I get together for a Girl’s Weekend. Normally we all go to Vegas for the weekend, but this year we decided to be a bit more sophisticated and to head up north to San Francisco. It’s amazing to see how much our little group of friends changes each year. Once upon a time we were little high school girls whose biggest concern was what to do after the football game on Friday night. Then we were wild college girls wanting to party all night long. Now 3 of the girls are married (2 of which are preggers) and the remaining 2 are engaged (to be married in May and October), and we were in bed by 11:00PM every evening…


The weekend consisted of A LOT of eating, great shopping, and lots of girl talk. We all got into town on Friday afternoon and we busted out all of our favorite foods from HS:

Bean dip, Gold Fish, and Cheez-Its

Mmmm… Brings back some great memories… After an appetizer of our Fav Food we walked to a restaurant called Perry’s for a light dinner. The place was really cute inside and the food was pretty good!

Saturday we were up and out of the house by 10:00AM! That is quite an accomplishment for 5 girls and 1 bathroom – we were all very impressed with ourselves… We went down Lombard Street, which is an extraordinarily crooked street:

And then we did some heavy duty shopping at Union Square.

I may have spent a small fortune at this wonderful store…

That night we met up with my BFF Kaysie at The Melting Pot **Side note: Kaysie is a friend from college, but she lives in the area and has become friends with my HS friends, so she was and honorary HS friend for the night** The Melting Pot = Amazingness… I am a HUGE fan of dipping, so this place is right up my alley! We knew that we would enjoy the appetizer of cheese and the dessert of chocolate best, so we skipped the dinner and just ordered salads. We got a Fiesta Queso dip and a Spinach garlic cheese dip for an appetizer and then for dessert we got the Original (which is chocolate and peanut butter) and S’mores. Oh My!

You practically had to roll us out of there by the time we were done eating!

Nicole, Randi, Jenny, Amy, Me, Kaysie



After dinner we immediately went back to the house and went into a food coma... 

Sunday we just relaxed, went to brunch (where I had my first Bloody Mary ever!) and then headed back to our homes. It was such a great weekend hanging out with my HS friends (and Kaysie). I am so glad that we have all been able to keep in touch throughout the years...