Oh, that every weekend was 3 days long!

So this has been pretty much the best Labor Day weekend in recent memory, if not ever : ) On Friday, Mer's sister Abigail came up to hang out with us and we decided to try the "Best of Palo Alto" Thai restaurant: Thaiphoon. It was definitely deserving of the title, probably better than Brown Sugar Cafe in Boston. Although my seafood noodle dish only came w/ 2 shrimp & 1 mussel, everything else was fantastic. For dessert... Mr. Bean's Holiday, so hilarious! Bean still is the most embarrassing character, super-unlucky yet always somehow pulling through & never getting the credit he deserves.

Saturday morning we got up & met up w/ Gloria and & drove through San Francisco, picked up Natalie @ USF & her bf, went over the Golden Gate Bridge, and up to the Point Reyes National Seashore... simply breathtaking! Love it when I can go out & actually see the things I've studied in the classroom (aka the Tomales Bay, formed by the shifting of the plates along the San Andreas Fault).

We spent Sunday with our "married friends" Jon & Kristin, had some great custom burgers at The Counter, experimented with some new bowling games (ask me about speed bowling at some point), and Abigail made some delicious tacos & guacamole with ingredients straight from a Mexican market. I also got some QT with Gloria... so fun to have family nearby!