Girls gotta stick together

So, here's a blog you should visit: annakarli.blogspot.com because she's having a contest with her husband to see whose blog gets more traffic. And you know, us girls gotta stick together (if you're a boy reading this, you can stick with us too). Go Karli!

Nothing in life is free eh?

Not true not true my friends. Take, for example, the free dinner Rob and I had tonight from Quiznos thanks to the million subs giveaway. And in tribute to the good folks at Quiznos, we taught Ava a new phrase, "Mmmmmmm....toasty!"

Lucky Lady!

You know how you know that life is good? I'll tell ya. When you have fresh flowers on your kitchen table for a month because the "welcome home" flowers your hubs gave you went ahead and kept on living clear up until the "happy valentines day" flowers from your dad arrived on your doorstep. Bliss I tell ya!

San Francisco Summary

Day 2-
-Morning spent at laundromat due to Day 1
-Naptime for Ava
-Bought a cute necklace
-Marked out a spot on Post St. an hour early for..........
-The Chinese New Year Parade which redeemed the whole day. (pics to come)

Day 3 -
-Community Festival in Chinatown (yeah I love festivals and I love all things Chinese so what could be better?)
-Naptime for Ava - lunchtime for mom
-Hubs calls to say we have to have dinner with some "work people."
-The mommy doesn't feel so good
-Ava's horrendous poo of 2009 (she'll love me for this someday)
-Taxi to dinner
-The mommy really doesn't feel so good
-The mommy excuses herself from dinner before dinner is served. Hubs and Ava stay there
-The puking begins for the mommy (no I'm not pregnant so for those of you who want to leave that in the comments, don't.)
-Pull a blanket and pillow into the bathroom and sleep there all night.
-Tip of the day: Don't eat turkey sandwiches from Walgreens

Day 4 -
-Ava and mommy chill in the hotel all day and try not to request new bedding too many times.
-Hubs case gets put on hold which means he doesn't have to work anymore for now

Day 5 -
-Fisherman's wharf, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge
-Abby pays homage to a special place in her heart........H&M
-Dinner with sweet sweet Rebekah

Today -
Home

San Francisco: Day 1

Flight delayed an hour
Uber cranky flight attendant
Arrive in San Francisco
Dinner with hubs and Pumpkin
Bathtime and Bedtime
Dreaming that Pumpkin is screaming "mommy"
Realize it's not a dream
Spend the next 3 hours changing multiple pairs of pajamas and cleaning up vomit.
Apologize continuously to the housekeeping staff for having to request a 3rd set of sheets
Secretly grateful that I'm not the one that has to do all the laundry from this
Back to bed at 4 am

Looking forward to Day 2.

The Motherload

Today Ava had to go to the doctor, which she hates, so I decided I would take her to feed the ducks afterwards, which she loves. Apparently they hadn't been fed much today because as soon as we put a few crumbs out, we were surrounded. I had them literally eating out of my hand......not so much because I wanted it that way but because the moment my fingers held a piece of bread they would literally jump at me and snatch it away. One of them even bit Ava's hand twice when she wasn't holding anything apparently in anticipation of the bread that would soon be there! We backed off when I was afraid I could no longer defend her should they decide to attack and then the "bird lady" arrived. Okay really she is just some nice citizen who comes to make sure the ducks are fed but it was really cool because the ducks recognized her. She started walking into the park and one of the ducks quacked back to the others and ran towards her and the rest soon followed. Within just a few seconds every duck, seagull, pigeon, and flying thing was on the ground surrounding her. Ava just kept watching as more and more of them flew to greet her. I didn't get it in the picture but the sun was just starting to set on the opposite side of the big pond so it was a really pretty scene to watch. When Ava got bored with the ducks we played for a bit on the playground until it started to get cold. Before we left I told her "okay, you can go on the slide one more time and then we have to go bye-bye." The whole way home she was crying "one more slide, one more slide" and the ducks were soon forgotten. Good thing I took pictures!

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!