Watch out Boston, we are coming to town on Thursday and staying for 10 days!! We can't wait to see so many of you and remember what humidity is all about! :)
Ryan and Cameron are playing at Passim on July 7th if anyone is interested! :)
Monday, June 26, 2006
Friday, June 23, 2006
Cathedrals, Cocinas, and Caves
Last week while my mom and dad were here, we drove to the San Xavier Indian Reservation to see the San Xavier Mission, a beautiful Catholic church...
Then, we drove to Nogales, Mexico for lunch and shopping. The restaurant we ate at was built into a cave...here's a picture from the outside.
On their last day here, we drove to Kartchner Caverns. These amazing caves which are still active were just recently opened to the public in 1999. On the outside they look like two grassy (desert grass=weeds and cacti), but on the inside, they are hollow caves filled with stalactites and staligmites over 50 feet tall!
Then, we drove to Nogales, Mexico for lunch and shopping. The restaurant we ate at was built into a cave...here's a picture from the outside.
On their last day here, we drove to Kartchner Caverns. These amazing caves which are still active were just recently opened to the public in 1999. On the outside they look like two grassy (desert grass=weeds and cacti), but on the inside, they are hollow caves filled with stalactites and staligmites over 50 feet tall!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Mom and Dad visit Tucson!
My mom and dad flew into town yesterday from Michigan! We spent the afternoon watching our wedding dvd (I can never get enough of it...thanks Rache!). Then we went to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which is more of a zoo/botanical garden/national park than a museum. It was absolutely gorgeous scenery.
A mountain lion behind a fence...the only way I'd like to ever see one...
Today we went all the way into Sabino Canyon, hiked around, and had a picnic...
Then my mom and I went to Lori's salon and had pedicures done! :)
While we were out getting pampered my dad put a new handle on the toilet so that it no longer stays down after flushing it!! And, he hung our light abover our table!
Then this evening we went out for dinner and then came home and played some scrabble...mom won the first game and I won the second. :)
A mountain lion behind a fence...the only way I'd like to ever see one...
Today we went all the way into Sabino Canyon, hiked around, and had a picnic...
Then my mom and I went to Lori's salon and had pedicures done! :)
While we were out getting pampered my dad put a new handle on the toilet so that it no longer stays down after flushing it!! And, he hung our light abover our table!
Then this evening we went out for dinner and then came home and played some scrabble...mom won the first game and I won the second. :)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
San Francisco!
On Monday morning, Natalie, Analisa, and I packed up the bug convertible and started up the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco! It was a BEAUTIFUL drive through national parks with the ocean right there as well. Next time through, I'd love to bring a tent and go camping!
We made a stop at the Madonna Inn to confirm that it is truly the guadiest looking place for fine dining...unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it, but as you enter the dining room area there is a large porceline doll hanging/ swinging from the ceiling...a little frightening to say the least...
We stopped in Monterey for a delicious seafood dinner!
Then, we finally arrived in San Francisco! It was so nice to be in a city again...it actually really made me miss Boston A LOT! I just miss having the cute little flower shop below our apartment and the good breakfast place down the street...everything always being within walking distance...but then again, I do love that the sun shines 350 days/ year in Tucson! :)
Analisa and I went for a run on Tuesday morning across the Golden Gate bridge...both she and Natalie are training for a half marathon right now (go ladies go!)... :)
Then we hiked around Muir Woods...a beautiful red woods forest...a definite gem for the bay area!
The bay area really has it all now that I come to think of it...they have the ocean, beautiful green rolling hills, the red woods, the city,...so glad to know we'll be back in that area again! In fact, we hope to play to a show at Cafe du Nord in October, a great acoustic venue that is just down the street from where Analisa and Natalie live! So get your ticket to San Fran and get ready for my favorite acoustic duo to enter the stage! :)
That night we headed down to the Wharf for dinner...and then over to North Beach for some gelato! We sat in a park to eat our gelato and began to reminisce about when we sang in gospel choir together in college...a guy sitting on a bench across from us heard us and came over and decided to sing with us for a while...he lead us in a bunch of "repeat after me" songs...we had soo much fun. It was one of those things that we could've never planned, yet it was just a perfect way to spend our night.
Back at their apartment, we got into some heated rounds of mario brothers on nintendo (the original nintendo that is)...Ryan would've been so proud of me... :)
We made a stop at the Madonna Inn to confirm that it is truly the guadiest looking place for fine dining...unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it, but as you enter the dining room area there is a large porceline doll hanging/ swinging from the ceiling...a little frightening to say the least...
We stopped in Monterey for a delicious seafood dinner!
Then, we finally arrived in San Francisco! It was so nice to be in a city again...it actually really made me miss Boston A LOT! I just miss having the cute little flower shop below our apartment and the good breakfast place down the street...everything always being within walking distance...but then again, I do love that the sun shines 350 days/ year in Tucson! :)
Analisa and I went for a run on Tuesday morning across the Golden Gate bridge...both she and Natalie are training for a half marathon right now (go ladies go!)... :)
Then we hiked around Muir Woods...a beautiful red woods forest...a definite gem for the bay area!
The bay area really has it all now that I come to think of it...they have the ocean, beautiful green rolling hills, the red woods, the city,...so glad to know we'll be back in that area again! In fact, we hope to play to a show at Cafe du Nord in October, a great acoustic venue that is just down the street from where Analisa and Natalie live! So get your ticket to San Fran and get ready for my favorite acoustic duo to enter the stage! :)
That night we headed down to the Wharf for dinner...and then over to North Beach for some gelato! We sat in a park to eat our gelato and began to reminisce about when we sang in gospel choir together in college...a guy sitting on a bench across from us heard us and came over and decided to sing with us for a while...he lead us in a bunch of "repeat after me" songs...we had soo much fun. It was one of those things that we could've never planned, yet it was just a perfect way to spend our night.
Back at their apartment, we got into some heated rounds of mario brothers on nintendo (the original nintendo that is)...Ryan would've been so proud of me... :)
L.A.
We spent all of Saturday afternoon in the studio doing pre-production work with the producer and other musicians for their next cd.
Two of my friends from college drove down from San Francisco for the show that night, so I spent the evening with them walking along the beach and then going out for dinner.
The show was at Hotel Cafe, a cool venue, however a little noisy due to it being a bar. Ryan had a lot of friends from Berklee there, plus our friend Claire from Boston surprised us by showing up since she was in L.A., my friend Justin from City Year came, as well as Analisa and Natalie from San Francisco.
Two of my friends from college drove down from San Francisco for the show that night, so I spent the evening with them walking along the beach and then going out for dinner.
The show was at Hotel Cafe, a cool venue, however a little noisy due to it being a bar. Ryan had a lot of friends from Berklee there, plus our friend Claire from Boston surprised us by showing up since she was in L.A., my friend Justin from City Year came, as well as Analisa and Natalie from San Francisco.
San Diego!
So, last week I wrote a really long post that included our travels to San Diego, LA, back to San Diego, and San Francisco...and then my internet connection quit and I lost it all! I was a little upset, so I took it out on the blog and refused to post for a while...but the time for forgiveness has come and I'm ready to post again....this time however I'm going to post one city at a time... :)
2 Fridays ago, Ryan, Cameron, and I packed up the rah-sah-savvy (the Rav4) and drove to San Diego. On the way, we stopped in Dateland, AZ to check out the date shakes, date bars, date dates....and get gas. I kept begging Ryan for a quarter so that I could ride the helicopter, but he insisted that it wasn't up to any sort of safety code...
We made it to San Diego in good time and met up with some of Ryan's friends from Berklee and had dinner before the show. The show was at a coffee shop/listening room called Lestat's...very cool place....and the owners liked Ryan and Cameron a lot and already want to have them back for another show.
That night we slept over at Ryan's cousin's house and had fun chatting with her and her husband for awhile. They got married last summer as well, and even though we've gotten to see them a few times over the past year, we haven't really had the chance before to sit down and talk b/c it was always at a wedding or similar type event....so having quality time with them was really nice.
On Sunday we drove back to San Diego so that we could attend a memorial service for one of my patient's from Boston Children's Hospital that had cancer and died in April. It was a beautiful memorial service on Pacific Beach next to the pier. For almost 2 hours people (friends, family, high school teachers, etc) stood up and shared thoughts and memories about her...it really was a testimony of what an incredible person she was to so many people. Ryan said it even made him feel like he knew her. After people were done sharing, the surfers did a traditional paddle out in honor of her since she was a surfer as well. Then they had a reception at Kono's (a famous breakfast place in San Diego that she had told Ryan and I we HAD to go to on our honeymoon.)
As we were leaving the beach area, we had to stop and ask for directions...little did I know when entering the little shop that looked like a jewelry/candle type store to me that it was really a "medicinal marijuana" shop...I probably stuttered a bit in asking directions once I realized what was going on around me, and then immediately tried to act all cool like it was normal :) ...but nonetheless, they gave us great directions!
And, of course we couldn't be in California without going to In-N-Out...so we stopped in to have a snack with Cameron, Julia and her boyfriend Bryce (friends from Tucson that just relocated to San Diego.) (Bryce is taking the picture)
2 Fridays ago, Ryan, Cameron, and I packed up the rah-sah-savvy (the Rav4) and drove to San Diego. On the way, we stopped in Dateland, AZ to check out the date shakes, date bars, date dates....and get gas. I kept begging Ryan for a quarter so that I could ride the helicopter, but he insisted that it wasn't up to any sort of safety code...
We made it to San Diego in good time and met up with some of Ryan's friends from Berklee and had dinner before the show. The show was at a coffee shop/listening room called Lestat's...very cool place....and the owners liked Ryan and Cameron a lot and already want to have them back for another show.
That night we slept over at Ryan's cousin's house and had fun chatting with her and her husband for awhile. They got married last summer as well, and even though we've gotten to see them a few times over the past year, we haven't really had the chance before to sit down and talk b/c it was always at a wedding or similar type event....so having quality time with them was really nice.
On Sunday we drove back to San Diego so that we could attend a memorial service for one of my patient's from Boston Children's Hospital that had cancer and died in April. It was a beautiful memorial service on Pacific Beach next to the pier. For almost 2 hours people (friends, family, high school teachers, etc) stood up and shared thoughts and memories about her...it really was a testimony of what an incredible person she was to so many people. Ryan said it even made him feel like he knew her. After people were done sharing, the surfers did a traditional paddle out in honor of her since she was a surfer as well. Then they had a reception at Kono's (a famous breakfast place in San Diego that she had told Ryan and I we HAD to go to on our honeymoon.)
As we were leaving the beach area, we had to stop and ask for directions...little did I know when entering the little shop that looked like a jewelry/candle type store to me that it was really a "medicinal marijuana" shop...I probably stuttered a bit in asking directions once I realized what was going on around me, and then immediately tried to act all cool like it was normal :) ...but nonetheless, they gave us great directions!
And, of course we couldn't be in California without going to In-N-Out...so we stopped in to have a snack with Cameron, Julia and her boyfriend Bryce (friends from Tucson that just relocated to San Diego.) (Bryce is taking the picture)
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