A little time out

Charles and I headed out for a quick 24 hours way from the kids to celebrate our 13 year anniversary. I guess that it was unlucky number 13 because on the actually day I was sick with strep throat, Brigham was still laid out on the couch from his injury and that night I had been asked to teach a class on "Simplified Entertaining". ( Too bad that I was a day late in finding this lady's blog. She is my new favorite person. I spent way too much time dissecting her 10 commandments of entertaining. Plus she loves to can. Kindred spirits I tell you. That is a whole other post.) Not much of an anniversary. Oh well.
My brother let us use some of his rewards points to stay at the Berkeley Marina. It was great. It was right on the marina and we could just walk out and go see all of the cool boats. Some were old, some were fancy, some were majestic. We stopped in at this little greasy spoon to share some fish and chips. It is always one of those things that I think sounds good and then I get it and wonder why I did. This one was pretty good though. I guess that it was not too much of a greasy spoon since they did have a wonderful fruit stand inside and they did not have milkshakes. What did you expect, we were in Berkeley!

This is Charles and I on a chocolate factory tour. Lame shot I know but this is the only one that I took. I promise that is Charles in the picture with me. We tested different grades of chocolate and it is official: I am definitely a MILK CHOCOLATE girl. The dark stuff just dries my mouth out and gets it all chalky.


It had been so foggy when we got there that it was not until the next morning that we that we could see the Golden Gate bridge from our hotel. There was no one out on the docks to ask for a picture so her I am - all by my lonely self!



We enjoyed Chicago style pizza that night at the recommendation of Brent and Amber. A really fun little place in Berkeley called Zachary's pizza. They are in Oakland and San Ramon too. I was a little unsure about Chicago style pizza , in fact I almost chickened out at the register but I am glad that I didn't, it was super. We also stopped by Omega Salvage. Fun place to look around. Charles was not too amused with the place. He thought that their slogan should be, " We sell used stuff for way more than you can buy it for new" Some of the items there were unique but ALOT of it was stuff that you honestly buy anywhere. I guess that is the fun of it to find the treasure hiding away.
All in all it was a much needed 24 hours away. And we certainly enjoyed the hotel's free amazing ( I think the best that I have ever had but not quite worth $10.99 for 6 to take home - the kids would not have appreciated them properly) chocolate chip cookies.