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Hi there, Ladies!

Well it certainly was a wirlwind of a trip. Wowee. Thursday morning at 4:30 I got a call from the airline telling me that my 9:50 flight had been cancled and to make other arrangements. I called them back and managed to book an 8 am flight instead. I flew out of the house, not even paying attention to what I put on, and booked it to the airport. My 8am flight actually stopped over in Las Vegas (Hi Duchess!) and I was stuck there for three hours because my flight was delayed. Did I play some of the slot machines in the airport? Possibly. :-)The flight over was long but beautiful. I flew from Vegas to San Jose, and then immediately went to bed. When I flew back, I got delayed for three hours in Denver because of weather, and didn't leave until 6:45. I landed in Boston at 12:40 and had to take a cab back home ($$$$!). I got into bed by 2:30 and had to get up to go to work for 7.

On the 4th we went to San Fran, and boy howdy what a STRANGE city. There were a lot of really crazy people there, but not flamboyantly crazy- they were crazy crazy. We got accosted on the BART by a deranged man, who I thought was going to hurt us. It was one of those moments where I honestly wished that I was carrying a gun, because he had us cornered and wouldn't let up. He finally got off the train, and we ended up missing our stop. I have a lot of pictures from San Fran, which I will post in a minute. We really had a blast, though. We went to Fisherman's Warf and ate like pigs. Ice cream, good breads, sandwhiches, chowder, chocolate, sushi, burgers.... we ate it all. We saw some of the fireworks, but left early because of the fog.

The next day we went to Palo Alto, and holy moly what a rich little place. Everyone either drove a BMW or a Benz. That's all that you saw. Down in Silicon Valley, where we were, everyone drove a Mustang. There were Mustangs EVERYWHERE. I can't wait to go back in August. Six more weeks, and I'm there again for 10 days. The weather was beautiful. San Fran. was actually really cool because of the sea breeze. I ended up wearing layers at night.

When I go back, I (may) be getting my scuba diving license while I'm out there. That'll be fun!

Hey - welcome back.

Sounds like you had a good time - looking forward to pictures.

All right ladies, picture time!

Here are a few pictures of the view from the airplane:

Your scuba diving comment just registered. Now THAT will be cool! Better get yourself a good thick wetsuit though. All I’ve got is a 5 mil and I’m sure that’d be WAY too thin for out there, but the only place I ever dive is in the Carribbean so it works well for that. I’d LOVE to see the kelp forests they have out there. It’s a TOTALLY different ecosystem than I’m used to.