Monday, August 18, 2008

smiles all around

Today is our 3rd anniversary - hurray!! To celebrate we went camping at the coast and then toured in-land to Napa Valley for wine tasting. It was a beautiful weekend. Here are Joe and Adelaide smiling on the beach - we have been noticing lately that Adelaide (probably babies in general, but we like to think it's particular to her!) brings out happiness in everyone. Everywhere we go, people smile at us! Pregnancy was a bit like that - women smiled quietly at me a lot, but Adelaide makes absolutely everyone laugh - it seems like everywhere we go, people are happy! And you can see why - she's so cute!! :)

Sunday, August 10, 2008

California dreamin'

Greetings from the "bay area"! We're in our second week living in Berkeley, just around the corner from the Grateful Cafe, where all the menu items are raw, local, and sustainably prepared and they ask when you order, "what do you appreciate about yourself?" Classic. There's a festival coming up called "how Berkeley can you be" ...

I'm here to study at the county hospital in Oakland, but we've managed to find enough time to explore San Fran as well - clam chowder at Fisherman's Warf, the cable cars, aquarium, etc. It's beautifully sunny here and we are staying in the huge house of a doctor from the hospital where I am working - when everyone's home, Joe and Adelaide have a cat, a dog, and 3 kids to keep them busy in between adventures.