Other than one small incident, this was a great weekend.  First, we had a ton of company in town and there's nothing (literally, nothing) in the world that makes me happier then to be surrounded by friends and family.  Phil came over from Charlotte and my friend Wade from BU came to town with his new fiancee, Erin (that's actually a really funny moment - Wade's first name is really Aaron - so it's Aaron & Erin).

The only bummer was that my step-dad called with news that my mom was at the hospital in surgery with apparent appendicitis.  She's okay now and was released from the hospital late last night but I was pretty worried.  And it was then that it really hit me just how far away I am from the rest of my family and how scary that is.  Normally, I always assume that everyone is a long-distance call away even if I lived in their same states, but in this case, it was really hard. 

Anyway, the most interesting moment of the weekend happened on Sunday after we picked up Wade & Erin in San Fran and were driving out to Sausalito.  We went to a rather large intersection and noticed that in the middle of this HUGE intersection was a person sitting on the ground with a beer can appointing himself the traffic cop.  While sitting.  On the ground.  In the middle of an intersection.  Waving his arms around.  Sitting on the ground.  Again, in the middle of an intersection.  California :-).

Wade, Erin, myself, Drew, and Phil had a great little lunch on the water in Sausalito and then walked around town thinking about the big homes that surrounded us.  I can only speculate that these homes on the waterfront probably run in the 2.5 - 4 million dollar range, but I have no idea.  All I know is that all of us together couldn't afford the mortgage.  Who are these people that have those homes?

I took some great photos of the city from Sausalito but of course, posting these photos would require me to connect my camera to my PC and I'm lame.  I do hope to get to it this week.

On Saturday, we hung out and watched football and then head to the city for some SHOPPING and dinner with a friend of Phil's at one of my favorite restaurants, Betelnut.  Super yummy and she is just the nicest person on the planet.  She does non-profit work and is truly a great person.  I wonder why Phil isn't interested in her??

On Monday, we met up with Lisa & Matt who are still just as cute in their 5 or 6 months of dating as they were in the first month except they now wake up earlier.  We went to Stacks for brunch (my favorite - yummy, yummy, yummy) and met up with a friend from work (Lynn).  My hopes of setting up Lynn and Phil were foiled by the fact that Lynn came late and we ended up eating on Monday instead of Sunday, but maybe next time :-)  From there, we went down to San Jose (and yes, I know the way) and did some more shopping and then back to Half Moon Bay to watch the sunset (again, photos were taken, but you know ...).

Phil took the red-eye home last night and I'm assuming that went fine.  Drew took off for Burbank today and I'm at work.  That's life baby.