Beautiful day in San Francisco
The weekend after Thanksgiving I was in San Jose on business and decided to stay for the weekend. Ryan joined me and we spent two nights checking out San Jose and took a day trip Saturday to the coast, namely to Monterey and brief visit to Santa Cruz.
Day 1 - San Jose

San Jose’s Winter in the Park. Think community Christmas trees and dolls.
Day 2 - San Jose

Dinner on Santana Row. Had fantastic scallops, though not pictured here.
Day 3 - Monterey / Santa Cruz

Asilomar Park in Monterey. My favorite of the trip, beautiful beautiful place.

Sunset on the 17-Mile Drive - That’s me! (Photo by Ryan)

Ghiradellis hot chocolates on Santa Cruz’s Boardwalk. Note chunk of fudge.
Day 4 - San Jose

The San Jose Holiday Parade. On NBC and right outside our hotel!
Happy Holidays! I’ve been doing a lot of sweet holiday stuff lately and feeling like blogging it–so here goes. We’ll have to rewind a bit…like to Thanksgiving. (Let’s see how far I get.)
Thanksgiving was nice and a much needed 4-day weekend. Rather than go into specifics, here were the four themes:
Food

My mom’s pancit for the annual Thanksgiving party
Seeing the Fam

The cousins on our annual Thanksgiving post-eating/napping walk
Cousins in Seattle

Took mis primas to the center of the universe to meet the Fremont Troll
Night out with Friends

The crew at Belltown Billiards, photo from Ly’s camera
There was also visiting Jen’s family, Rock Band, dinner at a casino, and Black Friday Super Mall shopping in there too, but didn’t have representative pics for those. In any case, it was a great way to kick off the Christmas season.
Last weekend, Ryan and I finally checked out the Olympic Sculpture Park after having lunch at the Old Spaghetti factory. It was an unusually sunny day, which made for a nice walk outside. I’m already looking forward to coming back with a book in hand. Saw so many great places to read that overlooked the water. In any case, here are some pics from his camera: