Page, AZ & Lake Powell

Ryan, Laurelle and I are venturing to Page, AZ this weekend. I have been working from home mostly and a client I work for (Southwest Gas) asked if I would consider a trip to Page when they convert their accounting system. I asked Ryan if he would be willing to accompany me and so we are off. We will leave on Sat. and rent a boat on Sunday to play on Lake Powell. Then I will work approx. 6 hours Monday and Tuesday and we will drive home Tuesday night. We are excited but a little overwhelmed because we have much to accomplish before the new baby comes.

I left my heart in San Francisco

Well, not really. We had a wonderful time this weekend. I did just fine being away from Laurelle and she did all too well with me gone. She was wonderful for my mother-in-law who watched her most the time. My parents relieved her for an evening as well. She didn't appear to miss a step and when we returned it was as if it we had just been gone for an evening.

While in San Francisco we explored a submarine, a cargo ship (still operational), some other three boats that carried people and cars and a tug ???. Ryan thought that was all great. We took a ferry to Tiburon which is a very quaint little town that would cost a fortune to live in. We road on trolley and cable cars. We went downtown to Old Navy, Ross, Gap and Mimi Maternity. We walked down the crookedest street in the world. We ate LOTS of crab... crab cakes, crab chowder, whole crab, crab fettucine, crab sandwich, crab cocktail ... just to name a few. We had excellent sourdough bread from Boudin. We went to the cannery, Pier 39 and Ghiradelli square. We perused a museum of games - old games - like the fortune teller machine from Big - they had the pianos that played themselves (Worlitzer?). They had puppet machines and all sorts of old what we would call arcade type games. We ate and ate and ate. Ryan did not bring his golf clubs which I am sure was quite a sacrifice.

We stayed in a very nice Hyatt hotel at Fisherman's wharf. We had easy flights there and back and it didn't rain at all until today. We were leaving anyway so we didn't care. We went to Chinatown and bought Laurelle a Kimono with a matching purse. It is very cute.

Well - I will post some pictures later.

Real Estate

I became a realtor. We were interesting in investing (Ryan and I along with my parents) so I got my realtor's license. The classes took me away from my baby but were interesting and I enjoyed being in the classroom again learning. I passed the exam the first time and now and a licensed real estate agent with Home Smart Realty. I haven't completed any transactions yet. It looks like the first house we will buy will be through his realtor because we saw a house we wanted and called him and he is willing to sell. We are hoping to sign on this house Monday. I will post some before pictures after the house is ours. It needs an extreme makeover.