We love our DK Top Ten travel guides. So in the spirit of the top ten, I'd like to suggest the top ten events of our weekend trip to San Francisco to see Ani & Brian and Aaron & Jessica...
#1. Lunch with Aaron at facebook. Cool space, innovative food, clever presentation and best of all, eating with AA! (a close 2nd best was the pumpkin/hominy/tortilla soup. yummm)
#2. Afternoon in SF with Ani and Brian. Great fun to meet Ani's office friends and I recommend the palatial Williams Sonoma store on Union Square. Inspirational!
#3. Ani found the perfect tapa restaurant for the 6 of us. Sangria, paella, pinchitos, croquetas, tortilla, trucha. What's not to like?! I'm always happy around a table of good food with my kids.
#4. I'm still trying to decide if the Cal game was a top ten or a bottom ten! We were awash in a downpour, but Cal did win big 26-16! And I'd forgotten about all those fun cheers and claps. And of course, sitting with Ani and super Cal fan Brian in the young alumni section is great fun! Add to that the sweet nostalga of being back in Berkeley--great walk across the campus. good times!
#5. Then home and snug in Ani's apartment for another top ten-- her spicy glazed pork chops, with tofu-mushrooms, brocoli, rice, hearty home made bread and apple crisp! Now that's a perfectly yummcious rainy day meal! She's quite a cook! and made us feel so at home.
#6. The Chinese First Baptist church is always a top ten for me. The service was in the historic sanctuary, Ian (Brian's brother) leading the worship, Pastor Lauren's concise and clear message, communion and, of course, those ushers-- Ani and Brian! Good worship with peope who love God.
#7. Milk tea and a little shopping in Chinatown after church-- big fun and a warm up for our impending trip to China!!
#8. Touring Aaron and Jessica's new apartment-- very stylish! The space is well designed (for two designers!) and it was great fun to hear about how they had pulled it all together. Ready for a spread in "Dwell" magazine.
#9. Lunch at Serpentine, a short walk towards the Bay from the apartment. Imaginative brunch dishes and good conversation. I especially liked hearing Jessica's work plans..
#10. And last, but not least two lovely, long converstions on the phone with Laurel as we tootled down the Central Valley on our trip home. Fun to hear about work, pot roasts and her "trick of vote" adventures! What a girl!
About Me
- Rhonda Sittig
- Brea, CA
- Larry and I live in a small house under the green maple trees. It is an orderly place, filled with books, chocolate cake and memories. We have four children, now scattered. Micah and his Jodi, in Shanghai with 2 dear girls. We dote on their every long distance video. Aaron & his adorable Jessica work at facebook and live in SF. Ani and Brian live in a pretty row house in SF. She spends her days at Creative Commons and Brian is an Apple engineer. And Laurel, after wandering the country, has settled in SF as well, adding her creative spark to Photojojo. My day by day job is teaching 3rd grade, satifisying when a child masters long division or reads through Harry Potter. But my vocation is the people I love, my family, (What a joy to set extra plates around the table when kids are home with us!) and the women I meet with to talk and pray each week. Joys, such as kid's weddings, big accomplishments, new grandkids, insights from God's word tie us together-- as well as heartaches of unexpected surgeries, marriages gone awry, job problems. I thank God for the best parents, 4 dear children, friends I can grow old with and a home and life with my Larry. God is good.
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