Ferry Farmers Market

Ira excited to go...



The view...


This city is amazing... Parking far away just means you get to take in more of it... We love it here.


Can you believe I only took one picture?!
All the food was delicious! And relatively cheap...


We tossed some pennies in a fountain...


This bag is 100% compostable! Love. We got it from the grape stand... It's full of organic grapes- $5!!!! We got a late start and didn't make it to the market until noon- the guy was packing up for the day and gave us waaaaay more than we paid for!



We got pickles, plums, peaches, collard greens, arugula, heirloom tomatoes....
Doesn't this bunch scream "make babaganoush!"


Iras new fab snack- figs!
She said she's "in love with figs!"
"obsessed with figs"
Her words.
Her picture;)


We also hand felted some wool reusable coffee cup/hot cocoa cup sleeves...even jared got in on the felting... Then said, "we need a washboard..."
It is tiring and time consuming...


Still trying to get the sizes right... True to my nature, I'm not using a pattern. I'm sure there are a bunch out there. But I apparently like to learn things the long hard way.

Friday

We made iced tea...





We bought a new tea in huge packages just for ice tea... Ira held up the bag and said, "it's sooo..... Pretty!"
It was...





Liv draws...





Ira paints...











So liv paints too ;)





This is a unisaur...





I loved this one...





Balancing butterfly...











A craft that proved too much for the littles... Will try again in a few months...











Park after dark :)
We walked to dinner at chipotle, grabbed some hot chocolate to go and walked to the park...





Was a gorgeous night....





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Random bits...

The past two days have been a whirlwind...
I dropped a glass of water on my phone and it had to sit in a jar of rice overnight so I am low on pictures...

There was paintings, drawing and coloring....

We read sleeping beauty from our new book....
It's a thick book- each story is nice and long, but with great illustrations... Keeps their interest longer :)


Ira built the two broken zhu zhu pets a ramp- she felt sad for them that they couldn't race anymore with their broken wheels :(





She has a ton of dolls, but prefers to dress her cats. This girl loves cats.


Fairyland got attacked by baby emers...


And relocated to the Cretaceous period....


Ira said, "I'm using this tiger as a sabertooth tiger... She is protecting her baby...." hello kitty is the sabertooth tigers baby. :)





Liv served me lunch...








Must be time to replace that bun! Looks like the finish is chipped... I didn't web realize it had a finish.

Liv and her bucket...
She is obsessed with buckets and sandcastles...






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Tuesday...

after that long weekend, today really felt like a monday! i will probably be off all week now.

Ira set up a table with bracelets for sale- just like down in the city yesterday....





We painted, with watercolor paints, crayons and pencils...


Ira has been into blending colors and creating actual scenes.. Its fun to watch her art progress...


she mostly puts the sky way at the top and the grass way at the bottom- leaving a huge space in the middle- today was the first time that she filled in the whole landscape. so cool. I love how she put branches in teh tree and roots into the water. She said this is one of the trees lining the lagoon.






charlie rose had a special on Henri Matisse that we watched today... It was a little more than what liv cares to watch, but they showed enough paintings to keep her somewhat interested.

liv brought me a stack to read... 2-3 is the best age for eric carle books.

whenever we get to this page she says, "look! macaroni and cheese penguin!"


emers likes the books too.


i swear I am not paid by mariposa- and I certainly do not get anything for free from them!!! lol

But let me tell you how delicious these crostini were! you would NOT know they were gluten free.

Mariposa is in oakland- must go find them and hug them.

we topped them with olives and cheese....



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Labor Day

We decided to do some exploring downtown... We parked by the ferry terminal, knowing we would end the day with a ferry ride.

It was hot in the city! We wore tshirts and sunscreen and loved every second of the warmth.... But I have to admit- the sun got a little too intense at some points...

First stop- City Lights....
I think it fair to say that this was a very special, highly anticipated moment in both mine and jareds lives.




The poetry room...
I felt like we were in church. I was nervous to let the kids play- or rock in the chair.



Liv and I sat and stared out this window... She was counting laundry items and birds...I was trying to picture it all those years ago...imagine the scenes that window has seen.








The childrens section was in the basement... I think our home collection is larger.... But not richer- there selection was fantastic! Very hard to find titles, special editions, etc etc... Spent quite a bit of time down there. They strategically placed the feminist literature in the same small area. :)


This is the door...




















This is the only picture I took in Chinatown- it was insane with busloads of tourists.... We kept stopping in doorways to stay out of their way.... Thought it appropriate to snap a pic!


The pyramid...


Ira held the baby and walked almost the whole 3+miles....


Ferry terminal...
Mariposa- home of delicious and magical gluten free foods.
We need to get the frozen pizza next time...


Boccalone for Jared....


Ira saved a worm from it's death...


Ferry to Sausalito....





Sausalito...


The return trip was CROWDED- we had front row seats and it was beautiful...


Embarcadero center-








Liv painted the night away while we made dinner...


During our before bedtime walk liv fell asleep holding her net... She would. Not. Let. Go.


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