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l33tminion) wrote2013-06-01 01:56 am
l33tminion) wrote2013-06-01 01:56 am
West Coast Wedding
My vacation last weekend to San Francisco for my cousin David's wedding was pretty great. Why am I not getting to posting about that until this weekend? Well, I started getting sick on Monday, and arrived home late Wednesday to the lethal combo of killer cold, jet lag, and sudden 90-degree weather. And I've been doing a bunch of cleaning prior to housemate switchover (DJ's departure and Josh's arrival). (A bit of cooking, too.) And trying to hit the ground running as soon as I got back to work. So I've been fairly flattened.
All the wedding festivities were very fun, though. A great dinner with the family, a picnic on Angel Island, late-night pre-wedding karaoke, and the ceremony itself, held on the Eureka (a museum ferry-boat docked off of Hyde Street Pier). The ceremony was amazing, if a bit windy, and the reception was incredibly fancy. Hard act to follow.
The rest of the vacation was pretty great, too. Did some shopping, met a long-time acquaintance for the first time in person (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chiaki777, glad we had the chance to meet!), visited Berkeley (and spent much of that time hanging out in a cafe near the UC Berkeley campus, helping Julie hack on some debugging related to one of her projects), visited the Museum of the Long Now again, ate some amazing food. The area around Fort Mason is beautiful, too, and walking along the shore in the morning before the crowds get thick is quite pleasant.
I was very glad to be able to convince Julie to take a bit of a vacation. We both like San Francisco quite a bit, it's such a great city to walk around. We've both been before, but this was our first time visiting together.
As for my own wedding, invitations are out, yay! Still many logistical details to pin down, but stuff is getting done.
All the wedding festivities were very fun, though. A great dinner with the family, a picnic on Angel Island, late-night pre-wedding karaoke, and the ceremony itself, held on the Eureka (a museum ferry-boat docked off of Hyde Street Pier). The ceremony was amazing, if a bit windy, and the reception was incredibly fancy. Hard act to follow.
The rest of the vacation was pretty great, too. Did some shopping, met a long-time acquaintance for the first time in person (
chiaki777, glad we had the chance to meet!), visited Berkeley (and spent much of that time hanging out in a cafe near the UC Berkeley campus, helping Julie hack on some debugging related to one of her projects), visited the Museum of the Long Now again, ate some amazing food. The area around Fort Mason is beautiful, too, and walking along the shore in the morning before the crowds get thick is quite pleasant.I was very glad to be able to convince Julie to take a bit of a vacation. We both like San Francisco quite a bit, it's such a great city to walk around. We've both been before, but this was our first time visiting together.
As for my own wedding, invitations are out, yay! Still many logistical details to pin down, but stuff is getting done.