In one week we’ll be leaving for Ireland!
For the past two weeks we have been in California visiting Simon’s family and our friends in San Francisco. We had a great day in San Francisco and walked on the Golden Gate Bridge (there will be photos of this soon on our smugmug page). Last week we took a four day trip to Yosemite and did some wonderful hiking. There will be an expanded post about this trip soon.

Yesterday we celebrated Simon’s mom’s birthday in Gull Park in Foster City. Simon repeated his success with making shashlik (shish kabobs) and we had some tasty salads too. Tomorrow we’ll have the pleasure of having brunch with Heather K’s famed grandmother in San Francisco – maybe she’ll have some travel tips for us. Wednesday we take our last domestic flight in what will be a while and travel back to Boston to my parents’ house for some bbq and last minute visiting and packing.