A wordless look at what we've been up to...

{they're BEADS. Over 2 million of them.}

weekend.

Ah yes, the first post-holiday weekend. Met with equal parts exhaustion from the first week back at work and eagerness to return to the normal weekend routine (i.e. sleep a tad late, doing whatever the hell we want).

Happy hour and dinner downtown with friends Friday evening was followed by a partially lazy Saturday. Whilst Francis surfed or something, I rode my bike up to a favorite cafe to devour this book (a Christmas gift from my sister, and SO GOOD). Later, an evening jaunt around North Park to admire the local color, a veritable mix of hipster + hardass.

Sunday I forced Francis into a cleaning frenzy with me, and we rewarded our efforts with a beach excursion. There is an area of Sunset Cliffs (well, there are probably many) that can only be explored during the lowest tide. We did just that. I then had a small culinary victory Sunday night when I (with considerable, if involuntary, help from F) whipped up some savory cauliflower soup.

{letter from sister}

{portrait}

{north park} 

{cave}

{only in very low tide can one walk here} 

{pools}

{told to pose like this}

{looking for tiny crustaceans}

{fun with new camera toys} 

{sunset at Sunset Cliffs} 

An Abridged Holiday Photo Diary

{With Captions Where Necessary/Unintentional Hiatus Over}

{December Nights is not for agoraphobes} 

{sister Phoebe should pursue acrobatics}

{...or architecture}

Not pictured: 

-some intense K1 racing that left most of us with bruised hips and spines. And the need for speed. 

-a sickening sum of hours spent playing Bejeweled. 

-most things we did.