My mom will be visiting in the next couple of weeks and we plan on making a trip somewhere (were really winging this one at the last minute!) but Kate is hoping for somewhere tropical so we will see We are also really looking forward to having a helping hand!

I have been riding every opportunity when the weather has not been too hot - you can check out a short video I had here using my new Canon T2i Camera ….

Otherwise, I plan on trying to blog a little more regularly here and over at my IT related blog so keep an eye on them for updates!

Over and out … Foxtrot Charlie

Check out the pic of the little rat!

We will be landing in EL on Tuesday and Kate has organized a little get together with everyone down at the Highlander on Friday so looking forward to that! Should be fun times.

We will also be Christening Charlotte and spending some time down in Port Alfred. Cant wait to surf and hang out with everyone!

See you guys soon!

Chat to everyone soon and hope all is well !!!

Later, P

All the pictures are here in my facebook account ….

Well, we had a heck of a time. It was a last minute decision to take the trip and we were originally planning on going to the Outer Banks since we both had the week off work. But, after doing some thinking we decided not to pass up such a great deal and caved.

The only down side to the trip was we had a couple stop overs going there and back which is never fun, but everything worked out in the end.

We left on Tuesday on the red eye and arrived in SF at around lunch time, we checked into our hotel in Fishermans Wharf (the tourist trap!) and visited the Wharf and the Aquarium and crashed pretty early after getting some dinner at Hooters (of all places …). The next morning we were up early because of the time change and spent a couple hours mozying around Maritime Aquatic Park and got some breakfast at Loris Diner. It was a rad view and pretty relaxing. Afterward we caught a bus up to Lombard St., walked over to the St Peter & Pauls Cathedral and up to Coit Tower, after that it was back down the hill through some pretty gardens and lots of steps to The Market. We had lunch there and planned out our next couple days. After lunch we headed to Alcatraz, I was a little disappointed, it was cool to see but found it fairly boring and a little bit tired. After the Alcatraz trip we cruised around the piers and got some dinner at Hard Rock. Thursday got a little bit more interesting when we headed over to Saulsalito a small town on the other side of the Golden Gate bridge, we caught the ferry over and spent the morning enjoying the shops and a couple art galleries. We also ate some lunch at a small italian place (great pizza) and headed back on the bus to SF Golden Gate Park. It was fairly rushed because we got there late but we still had time to enjoy the California Academy of Sciences and the Japanese Tea Gardens. These were def. 2 of my favorite places, both were fun but we wished the weather would have co-operated a little bit better. That night we ate dinner at a small seafood place on one the docks called Scoma’s, it was pretty good.

Friday was a full day trip down to Montery and Carmel. I was great going down US 1 and we enjoyed the sights and sounds. SF landscape and people are a lot different to what I thought it was going to be, so I am glad we got to experience it. Whats up with the Asians attitudes?????

After the trip we got out the bus in downtown and walked the streets a little bit before catching a cable car back to our hotel.

That evening (actually night by the time we got back) we relaxed and started packing, saturday morning we got onto our first flight at 11:00am and after 3 more got home at 12:00pm! ….

Overall, it was fun. I would consider living there but with property prices that high, doubt its going to happen … and then there’s the earthquake factor ….

On the life side of things, its been a crazy couple of months, last year we sold our small start-up to a company out in Utah. It was a great learning experience. Now that tax season is here you start wishing you had a done a couple things a little differently.

After getting the deal wrapped up I started work on preparing for a SAP implementation at our company. It was a rough 5 month period, 70 hour work weeks and politics but I learned a huge amount about business in general and SAP.

A trip to Aruba for a week and the another week with Michael and Lauren during Christmas was a welcomed break from the hard work.

The go-live on Jan 1st was really successful, on time and within budget which is more often than not the case.

Since then we have had a couple snow storms and found out that Kate is pregnant which we are really stoked about.

I have recently stated work on another project which I will share more about later and possibly add a link to the site.

Well enough rambling. See you on the flip side.

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