VACATION!!! The lowlights.

So Dave and I loved, loved, LOVED our week in the Bay area. Seriously, it was a much needed and super fun week for us both. But I brag about the awesome highlights of the week (of which there were MANY), I thought I'd share the less than shiny moments. Cause let's be honest... that's what we're gonna remember anyway.

Becca Needs to Learn her Illinois Trivia
We arrive in San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 3 around noon. While wandering the baggage area, Dave notices the signs proclaiming, "Mayor Gavin Newsom welcomes you to San Francisco!" And the following conversation takes place....

Dave: Well, that's hospitable. In Chicago, the mayor doesn't personally welcome you. It just says his name on the bottom of the sign.

Becca: So, what? The sign says, "Welcome to Chicago!" -Dan Bane" ?

Dave: What? Who's Dan Bane?

Becca: (pause) Dan Bane. (pause) Who is Dan Bane??

Becca: OH! Dan Bane! Um, yeah... he's the CEO of Trader Joe's. Who is the mayor of Chicago?

Dave: Richard M. Daley

Becca: Huh. Why did I say Dan Bane?


Dave and Becca Visit the Men's Rehab Home
So, for the most part Beverly (our cherished GPS system) took us everywhere we wanted to go throughout our week in the Bay area. Only twice did she truly lead us astray.

Bev did us wrong the first time when we were driving to our B&B in Pacific Grove, the Old St. Angela Inn, around 8pm on Sunday night. It was dark and we did not know where were going exactly. We get in the vicinity of our destination and Bev annouces, "You have arrived." We are in front of a victorian home, but there is no sign out front assuring us that this is OUR victorian home. Dave suggests that we go and knock to find out. I am not so sure.

We creep around the house, looking for clues. Dave, the master sleuth, reads the inscription on the side of the van parked in the driveway. It says something to the effect of "Helping men pursue sober and healthy futures." Yeah, NOT the Old St. Angela Inn, but rather THIS place. I am not sure what they would have though had we knocked. That would have been a different kind of vacation than what we had planned.


Burnination Station
Just a little word of advice... if you sunburn your lips and then go out to eat Dim Sum, be careful with the spicy chili sauce. Though this sauce is delicious, it will make your lips burn so badly that you have to walk around Chinatown holding an ice cube against your mouth for 20 minutes.


Beverly fails us again
So, Bev was truly our BFF all week. Seriously, I think she saved us from many a map-argument. BUT Bev was not so sharp all the time. She was particularly struggs when we drove out of SF on Friday afternoon. We got on the Bay Bridge as she directed. But she didn't realize it. Bev somehow got confused and was certain that we were not ON the Bay Bridge, but rather IN the bay itself. She just showed our little car icon over a vast span of blue and kept telling us to "Please return to the highlighted route." Yeah, Bev... if we were IN the bay, I think that maybe returning to our highlighted route would not be so easy. But thanks?