Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Pumpkin Patch!!

On Saturday, Matt and I went to the pumpkin patch with our friends, Chris and Danielle. At first, we wanted to go to the one in Encinitas, but upon further discussion, we settled on going to one in Carmel Valley. Chris has this awesome amazing beautiful camera, the T2i (which I know matt is hoping to get for christmas!) which we brought along for the trip. When we arrived at the pumpkin patch, we found out it was cash only...and since none of us had cash, we had to drive around until we found an ATM. Finally, cash in hand, we went into the pumpkin patch...only to realize that a mediocre mini pumpkin was almost 10 bucks! We discussed whether we wanted to buy one pumpkin, because they had free face painting, but we couldn't figure out where the face painter was, so we decided to skip out....but only after taking some AWESOME pictures! I definitely would recommend going to the pumpkin patch...if you can afford, but seeing as how we are broke college students, we decided to head to Vons to buy our pumpkins instead. The pumpkins were only 6-7 bucks here, and they were HUMONGOUS!!! It's amazing how much of a difference in size and price these pumpkins were. Overall, I think we got the best of both worlds :)





this is charlie the pumpkin!



Well of course, all that effort and time spent choosing pumpkins left us starving, so we decided to hit up one of our San Diego favorites, Bristol Farms. Did I mention that it was already almost 1 and we were going to Bristol Farms for breakfast? We love Bristol Farms breakfast because it is only 4 bucks...for eggs, bacon, toast, potatoes, and coffee. I think it's one of the best deals around...the only downside is the wait for food. Sometimes it can take up to almost half an hour to 45 minutes to get your food once you've ordered it. Maybe not the best decision if you're starving, but sometimes it's worth the wait. It was actually kind of fun waiting this time since Chris was busy shooting portraits of everyone. I don't mean this lightly when I say I think that Matt is in love....with the T2i. It's definitely a beautiful piece of equipment and I know that Matt (and his architectural work) could really benefit from it. Check out the awesome shots Chris got of the crew below. Of course, since we were carving pumpkins later, we decided to make it a pumpkin party and picked up some pumpkin ale....very fitting :)







Well, our adventure was pretty much over at this point, since Danielle had work and Chris had to go to school to do work, so Matt and I headed back to the house for our pumpkin carving. I had already decided to carve the chesire cat, since our costumes were themed Alice in Wonderland (I was Alice and Matt was the Mad Hatter). Matt's pumpkin, in honor of the Giants, would pay tribute to the closer, Brian Wilson. His didn't turn out exactly how we hoped it would, but it was a great attempt. So while watching the Giants game, we went to work on our pumpkins. We plucked out all the seeds, and tossed them with salt and butter and put them in the oven to make roasted pumpkin seeds. I accidentally burned them a little bit because I left them in for too long at too high of a temperature, but the guys (well Bryan and Matt at least) said that they were still good. I think the pumpkins and I are becoming much better friends, and that my pumpkin project is doing splendidly.





Later that night, Matt, Chris and I met up with my old roommates, Meghan and Vinitha, and some of our other friends to hit up the bars in Pacific Beach. It was a busy night for the bars, with some places charging almost 20 bucks for cover (Typhoon's). Needless to say, we did not get to venture into that bar. But we did hit a few of our favorites, like Johnny V's and Plum Crazy. I think this was one of my favorite bar trips out in San Diego, especially since we hung out with Meghan most of the night (whom I haven't seen in a while...if you don't count the weekend before. Overall, this was a splendid day (and night) in San Diego and it was good to see so many of my favorite people :)



meghan was katy perry

chris = rufio from hook

laszlo friend!!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Hallow's Eve!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

THE PARADEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

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via http://www.sfgiants.com

I'm currently digressing from telling you about my Halloween weekend with Matt....because as amazing and wonderful and lovely as that weekend was, I have to tell you about something else that happened today. I WENT TO THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS VICTORY PARADE!!! I was one of the millions of little faces in the crowd. And it was one of the most glorious (and maybe only victory) parades I've ever been to. My friend David and I got on the caltrain at 8:15 and then my friend Nicole got on at a later stop. Believe it or not, people were drinking at 8 in the morning. We may or may not have popped a bottle of champagne to make mimosas. I'm pretty sure we ended up on the party train, and every 5 minutes, someone would break into a chant...."Let's go Giants!!!!!" And since it was Nicole's birthday (and she said the Giants were stealing her birthday thunder), I convinced our entire cart to sing happy birthday to her (which wasn't very hard since everyone was already sloshed). Of course, Nicole was embarrassed...but all in good fun :) We got off the train around 10 (much later than anticipated) and walked over to Market and 4th, where we proceeded to join the massive crowd. It's UNBELIEVABLE the amount of spirit and love that filled that street. I was 15 feeet away from Tim Lincecum, Jonathan Sanchez, Andres Torres, Edgar Renteria. I can't even tell you how it felt to be there. We only stayed until the parade walked through, but it was an awesome experience. We made some friends (with some tall guys....who let us stand in front of them since they blocked my entire view) and managed to watch most of the parade through some guy's iPhone (he was recording the parade). That's how crowded it was....I couldn't see over anyone. But it was still incredible.

Since we were starving, we decided to grab some burgers from the Burger Joint (right across the street from AT&T Park). The burgers were pretty good, but nothing really beats in-and-out. We watched most of the ceremony (at the Civic Center) on tv at the Burger Joint. People were clapping every time they announced a player. Winning the World Series is officially the biggest party in San Francisco. If you missed it, well...make sure you check out the video! It was a little depressing that the Giants #1 fan missed the parade.....the Giants missed you Matthew :)









jonathan sanchez in all his glory in the middle


Burger Joint

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

GIANTS VICTORY IN PHOTOS!

It's Christmas in San Francisco!!!!











Congratulations to the World Series MVP, Edgar Renteria!!!!

I can't tell you how fitting it is that the Giants won TODAY
because today is the first day I start celebrating Christmas!!!!!
♥ ♥ Thank you for the best season ever, Giants ♥ ♥
We knew you guys were in it to win it!!!

* all photos via sf chronicle *
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Bonus: Matt's photoshop skills at work...




2010 World Champions!!

The time has come for all of us faithful fans.  2002 was a heart breaker but 2010 made up for it...and then some!!  I can't even tell you how happy I am right now about this win.  We were underdogs the entire year.  Regardless of our pitching staff we were never mentioned as a candidate to win at all.  According to the experts:  The Padres should have taken the division title, the Braves should have taken the Division Series, the Phillies should have taken the Championship Series, and the Rangers should have taken the World Series.  But all of those teams were dominated by the steamroller that is, THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS!!!!!


ps.  Championship gear will be arriving at my home within the next week!


I've got a GIANT feeling about tonight.

one more win.
and the championship is OURS.









all photos via San Francisco Chronicle. excellent article by the way.

‎"Now the Giants (we're checking, this all might be a dream) are up

3-1 in the World Series and on the verge of bringing home 

the biggest party in the Bay Area since the Gold Rush."