Lunar eclipse

Ed stayed up late the night before last to watch the lunar eclipse. I had asked him to wake me, but when it started at 2:00 am, somehow I didn't really care that much for the moon anymore. Fortunately, Ed took these gorgeous pictures of it.

Catching up

Time flies - again it's already more than two weeks since my last update! I got a ton of new pictures though.

First, back to the travelogue:

On the 11th day of my parents' stay in the US we concluded our road trip; we took Highway 1 from Los Angeles back to San Francisco, along California's beautiful coast. Even after the interesting, diverse, and breathtaking places we had seen during our trip, the Northern California Coastline still was a real attraction (elephant seals, the most beautiful shades of blue on Earth, and a town which was once goverend by Clint Eastwood contributed to this effect quite a bit).

All pictures here:
Day 11 - Along the coast, back to SF (06/27/2007)

Alright, here's a few more recent events:

Ladies' Night
A few weeks back we had a fun Girls' Night Out. Initially we wanted to go out for dinner first, but we would have waited for a table forever, so we decided to get our pizza "to go", and eat it at one of the ladies' house nearby (where some of the gentlemen were having a quiet evening in, but welcomed us warmly). After we were done with our pizza, we headed out for some fun on the town.

Sunday Barbeque
The same weekend, Ed and I hosted a fairly spontaneous BBQ party on Sunday afternoon, which lasted into late Sunday night. And which effects lingered with some of the attendents well into Monday.

Thirty-one
My birthday this year began quite cozy, shortly after the advent of the 16th, with a glass of wine, and dear mail from home.

Late success
Ed and I continued to celebrate on the weekend, quite rustic, while camping in Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Where we, surprisingly so, finally figured out how to correctly attach the stupid flysheet to our tent. Which we had attempted to do three or four times in the past, to no avail. We always ended up either omitting the fly, or somehow affixing it in an awkward, temporary way.

Another Girls' Night
Earlier this week I hosted Beads n' Booze, a ladies' jewelry making night. Our large dining table is extremely great to have, and a husband who loves nothing more than making cocktails and refilling the crafting gals' wine glasses is a real blessing.


In memoriam
Finally, some sad news: Bruce died.
Bruce was our pet fish, for more than a year. On the sad occasion of his death I put together a few photos of Bruce's moving in with us in April 2006.

Visiting from Idaho

Here is a round of recent photos, for a change: Ed's kids, Skyler and Jordan, as well as their friend Ian visited us in the last week of July. We went to the annual Google picnic together, took a boat tour on the San Francisco Bay, and had a lot of fun together.



All pictures of Skyler and Jordan's visit

LA, part two

Contrary to our initial plans, we decided to stay in LA for two nights. Not necessarily because there's so incredibly much to see, but rather because everything's so incredibly far apart that it takes so incredibly long to get from A to B. On our second day we did some sightseeing (Watts Towers, Union Station, Downtown), and visited Universal Studios Hollywood.

All pictures here:

Day 10 - Los Angeles, Part II (06/26/2007)