be on the lookout! karen is a'headed to baltimore in september! i must really love certain people out there since this will be my second time visiting.  yes.  i'm voluntarily going on vacation to baltimore.  twice.  actually, the last time i took an extended vacation over one day was... baltimore. well, baltimore and ny.  so in essence, i've only taken substantial PTO to visit baltimore.  you people better feel loved. ;)
 
since i'm lazy, a pictorial of what i've done the past two saturdays.  enjoy.
 
yesterday, i went up to the city to have a day of fun with the funnest girls in san francisco: marcia, g, and aud.  we ate at the best breakfast place (at 2pm) in north beach.  we waited outside in line for a long time, but it was well worth it:

 
we walked around the area for a little bit and found a new heart for the city:
 
 
we then muni'd on over to some shopping plaza where we looked for bridesmaid shoes and other things for marcia's wedding.  here are the final two choices for shoes.  You vote for which you think would look better with a maroon-colored dress:


unfortunately i don't have pictures for the rest of my day.  but we found great deals at papyrus (75% off sale!) and i discovered i help g&marcia be productive when it comes to shopping for wedding things.  all in all, a wonderful day with some wonderful gals.
 
two saturdays ago, andrea, bob and i went to work to help alice pack up her cube:

 
tomio, oski and alice all drove down for the day, and since it was a saturday, we let oski roam around on our floor:

 
unfortunately he got a little too rambunctious, so we locked him up in a conference room for a while:

 
alice finally finished cleaning out her cube, and said her final farewell to the little square space that she called home for so many years:

 
but before we could leave, andrea discovered the concept of free office supplies.  so she went "shopping":

 
we work on the third floor, so we decided to take the elevator down.  unfortunately, oski is scared of elevators and alice had to drag him into it:

 
since it was so stinking hot in the office (no a/c on saturdays), we hung out in front of our building in the shade to cool off and let oski play:

 
tomio decided that he wanted to play, too.  he found alice's bag of junk she wanted to throw away, and found some great treasures he wanted to keep:

 
oski found some treasure in that bag as well, and found some new play toys (watch him decapitate the duck):
 
 
we then went to a park to eat dinner and let oski play some more.  unfortunately, we didn't take bob up on his offer to go to his aunt's for a bbq. that would have been entertaining. hehe.
 
and that's the end of my pictorial.  i've come to realize i don't really take that many pictures anymore.  i think it's more out of sheer laziness than anything.  but at least i upload my pictures so other people can see them. ahem. bob.
 
one more week of purgatory at work... midnight next sunday can't come soon enough.  one.more.week.