Sunday, June 26, 2011

Fun (Amy) Cali Weekend







This is what happens when work gets so crazy busy and get quite stressed: I forget to update my blog. Ugh. So, it's been almost 30 days. But a super fun weekend is bringing it all back...


This weekend my friend Fun Amy (yes, it's very important that I refer to her as Fun Amy- with numerous friends named Amy and Jen, it's critical to provide special code names). After I describe our 36 hours of fun, you will know why I call her FUN.


It was Amy's birthday weekend and she and I arranged a surprise birthday visit to San Fran due to the fact that is was also her brother Tim's 50th birthday and his band, CITY JADE, was scheduled to play at a new club in Gilroy, the Garlic Capital of the World.



We started Friday night with a delicious dinner in the city at FIRST CRUSH. We sat at the bar with a cool bartender and we ordered cocktails- think Kir Royal and French Kiss- a few champagne laden libations and moved on to bread with olive tapenade, garbanzo bean fritters, lobster mac & cheese, flash fried spicy calamari and ending with enough dessert for 5.... chocolate mousse, chocolate chip bread pudding with heath bar ice cream and sour cherry pie with vanilla gelato. Wow. Needless to say, we didn't not finish it all, but we waddled home more than satisfied.



Yesterday was wonderful! Started with pedicures, next up was wine country in Livermore... CONCANNON and MURRIETA'S WELL. So fun! Sipped 8 wines for $5- not joking- at Concannon and 6 more at Murrietta. Walked away with 2 lovely bottles (each under $25) as well as some mouth-watering wine peanut brittle. YUM!



Last, our trek to Gilroy for checking out the little garlic town, some dinner, and ending with Tim's band at 9 Lives Club. They were great! Love me some 80's hair-band-rock! Yes, there was a tiny bit of head banging going on last night.... And I loved when they did a cover of Nick Gilder's fabulous "HOT CHILD IN THE CITY". How awesome it that!?



In bed by 1Am after a fun-filled day with Fun Amy in Northern CA. Yeah!


Could not ask for a better (short) weekend with food, fun, and friends.