Before you came along..

When i was in high school i'd occasionally ask my mom what she did with friends when she was in high school or college because rumor has it she was quite a riot.. Maybe i was gleaming for ideas or it's possible i wanted a to have something in my back pocket for those rare times your parent says "You did What!?" and there really isn't a good excuse or any type of reasoning that makes it a rational choice, but the fact is you i did it and what's done is done. So by knowing a silly (stupid) thing your accusing parent did makes it not so bad. Right? Apple doesn't fall.. that sorta thing

Possibility #2 is that i wanted to know my parents had a life. You know, in their past life.

Hahahaha that sounds so terrible out loud!

But seriously, Once kids come parents are too wiped out to do something for fun right? So i've heard..

So to my kids, here is proof that your parents would in fact have fun and did a thing or two before you came along and were a black hole of time and energy.

Two weeks ago we flew into SFO and began our search for an apartment. But what's a trip to the Bay Area without a trip to the City!?

(note for others. When you live anywhere up in NorCal and someone says "the City" they are talking about THE CITY as in the only one that matters in California. Don't get me wrong, i love where i grew up, i love Los Angeles, i love San Diego and most everywhere in between, however The City is my favorite, and none other than San Francisco. Glad we got that cleared up.)

Good heavens! How did we live before Yelp?

This is a lovely chocolate store we found in Noe Valley and could have spent all night frolicking through, as well as the better part of our savings. We ended up with some dark chocolate with chili, a local bar, and 2 from Cuba & Trinidad. The owner said he has chocolate from 96 different suppliers from around the world and has hundreds of different kinds. Some he rotates and others will always be kept in stock.

 

I think our favorite was the dark chocolate chili. It lets you know about 30 seconds after you eat it that it has other plans for your mouth and lightly sets it ablaze. (This would be a horrible but funny trick to play on someone since you cant see the chili)

From there we when to dinner at Lers Ros Thai which was wonderful! Any place that has a good green curry is good for me.

After that we drove to the DMV people said to park at for The Independent and walked the 2 blocks to the venue. 

 We got SO lucky!

(sound check up stairs)

Imagine Dragons was doing a benefit show and was completely sold out!

However we don't take "No" for an answer so we busted our way in!
"We don't take no prisoners!"

(not really. Just a good friend who we are very thankful has a big heart and got us in)

We could also get used to the VIP area..

After a night that good how do you let it end? So we didn't.

We drove from the show to the Financial District to Pier 1to Bay st to Marina blv to The Palace of Fine Arts (you know, to pick out our future house) for a very cold photo stop for Matty's favorite place in the City. Then up and down the steepest hills we could find and finally back to our hotel.

Oh yeah.. The whole reason for our trip. We found a place we liked and move up next month!

(-side note- please don't try to keep up with my present/past tense flip flopping in this post or ever, i sure as heck don't so it's not going to do you any good to try. Like i said this is to my future kids)