Angel Island

Yesterday we checked another item off of our Bay Area Bucket list. We met up with Tasia and Jason and headed up to Tiberon in the North Bay. Although it's just across the bridge, Tiberon is like another world compared to the city. It was beautiful and reminded me a lot of Vancouver Canada.

We caught a ferry over to Angel Island.

sweet hair, carrie

We hiked and hiked until we got to the tippy top of the mountain that is Angel Island. It had the greatest view of the city. I would love to see it at night!

& this was the other direction looking towards Tiberon and the North Bay. So pretty and such a contrast from the other side!

During the ferry ride we got some amazing view of the fog rolling in over the bridge. The beauty of the San Francisco fog is seriously indescribable. I love it...it just gets hard when you are living in the dark gloom underneath it. We have had what feels to me like an especially foggy summer. Our house is close the ocean so we live in an especially foggy pocket of the city. I have been tryin my best to stay positive in the gloomy weather by it was kinda getting to me this weekend. I guess my body just really needs some vitamin D! September and the sun can't come any sooner.

After our adventure we ended up at Posie for Ice Cream (and some diary free sorbet for me!)

Hooray for weekend getaways, good friends, and sunnier days ahead!

chips and flowers.

I was having a hard day. I was being a brat. He went to the grocery store and came home like this:

ahhhhh
He isn't perfect but he is very close. I am so lucky.

The MOMA

While Ashley and Emily were in town we hit up the SF Museum of Modern Art.

Modern Art isn't usually my jam, so I was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved the MOMA!

 Here is Miles looking handsome as usually in front of the 'living wall'

I really loved the colors on this one. Maybe I'll paint myself somethin just like it!

 I really appreciated this exhibit on leg shaving because let's be real, shaving your legs without missing a strip or cutting your ankle is a true art that needs to be appreciated.

 All the art was pretty unique and some of it was really pretty. My favorite part was the balcony city view and...

                                        

THE RED BATHROOM

Ashley, Emily and I spent a good chunk of time taking pictures and geeking out about how weird and fun the red bathroom was. Next time I will skip buying a ticket and just head towards the crazy bathroom for free! It's art!

Ashley & Emily come to visit!

We had more visitors! This weekend Ashley and Emily flew out to visit, it was so great. Ashley and Emily are just the sweetest, most fun friends to have and I am so glad we got to spend the weekend with them. Thursday night we took them to Bi-rite and Delores park.

^just trying to fit in with the fellow weirdies at Delores Park :)

Then we went to the Conservatory of Flowers to see the Summer of Love light show. 

Having visitors is the best because it forces us to get out of the house and do all the fun things. Friday night we went to the Church of 8 Wheels...aka..our favorite place in the city. We disco skated the night away along with our new friends Bre and Andrew. 

Thanks for coming to visit, Ashley & Emily! We love you!

a sunny day in Oakland.

It's summer so we are doin' all we can to escape our foggy city and catch some sun rays.

Saturday we went to Oakland. First stop...the temple! Holy moly, that place is seriously the best. We both felt so happy and refreshed after a session there. I was a little nervous to go in the temple with bright pink hair, but all I got was smiles and compliments. 

The Oakland temple has quickly become my favorite. There are stairs that lead you to the roof of the temple which has this amazing view above Oakland and San Francisco. 

After the temple we headed downtown to find some food. I am on a pretty restrictive diet these days and eating out is pretty hard. (I will write more about this in another post.) Miles found this little hole in the wall Ethiopian restaurant downtown. It is family owned, cheap, delicious, gluten free, dairy free, huge portions, and super spicy. Basically covered all my needs and more.

Whenever I have heard about Oakland, mostly I just picture the most ghetto place on earth and I am yet to discover that side of Oakland. Every part of Oakland I have experienced is beautiful. We had heard cool things about the Mountain View Cemetery so we made our way up there and it was pretty amazing. I'm weird and I find cemeteries really cool to begin with. 

 There was a portion of the cemetery called, "millionaire row" full of these HUGE graves. We walked along millionaire row and googled each of the names and read their story. My favorite was finding the family that the movie Cheaper By the Dozen was based off of. They were all buried here! Also, Mr Ghirardelli the chocolate man is buried there as well. His tomb was full of Ghirardelli chocolates that people had thrown in there. What a cool dude. 

How handsome is Miles? There is no other person I would rather walk through cemeteries googling dead people with than him. 

Last stop was the Berkley Bowl. The Berkley Bowl is basically the Super Bowl of grocery stores. You can find every fruit or vegetable you could ever need (+ a ton you have never even heard of) all organic, grown at a farm only a couple hours from here. Food has been a major topic on my mind the last 3 months. There is a lot to be said about how messed up the American diet is, but as I was walking around the Berkley Bowl I had this moment of realization and gratitude of how insanely blessed I am to live in a place where I have access to such a huge variety of freshly grown fruits and vegetables. I am so lucky to live in a place where eating gluten and dairy free is a little tricky but not impossible. We were able to find gluten free, dairy free, chocolate chip cookies at the Berkley Bowl! I feel so grateful for this food journey I have been going through and I am grateful to have the means to feed myself healthy food that makes me feel good. Ha, so there is my heartfelt testimony about a grocery store... If you are ever in the East Bay, the Berkley Bowl is actually at the top of my recommendations of places to go. 

They had pink carrots to match my pink hair! And edible flowers in case you have been craving those?...Haha

Then we headed back home into the fog. It was kinda spooky driving across the bay bridge back into the city and only being able to see the bottom half of all the tall buildings. It's a weird place we live. 

Thanks for the sunny day, Oakland!