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As mentioned, we spent Thanksgiving Day flying to California. We got in just in time for dinner at Paul’s parents house with my immediate family and some of his extended family. All the traditional food and a bit of an nontraditional drink – pomegranate seeds in champagne – made for a great evening.

The next morning Paul, my mom and I went shopping to see what sort of sales we could find. And also just for the entertainment of watching other people go nuts. I found seasons of Friends for $8.99 which was worth the trip.

IMG_3721 Then Paul’s fam and I drove over to San Francisco (it’s about 100 miles from where we live) to wander the city and go to dinner at Gary Danko. This was my first time visiting the restaurant and it was unreal. Below is a peek at our plates:

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After dinner, we rode a cable car to Union Square to see the huge tree.

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And finally, Saturday morning, we wandered the farmer’s market at the ferry building before driving back to Sacramento.

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I need at least three naps to recover from the weekend but today is jam packed. First item on my list is ignoring all the Cyber-Monday sales that keep popping up in my inbox. Second item is working my way through the next 50 items.

I hope you had a lovely weekend. It’s NEARLY December and I am nearly going nuts with all the projects I want to get done. Keep an eye out for my Thanksgiving travel album. Keep an eye out for a shop update. And please be sure to visit the shops of my November sponsors one last time as tomorrow there will be some new faces over there.

Happy Monday. Good-bye Fall. Welcome holiday music.

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9 responses to “thanksgiving weekend wrap-up.”

  1. kitchendoor Avatar

    Love that friendly orange scarf. And so glad you had a good time.

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  2. ashley maureen Avatar

    sounds like a wonderful weekend! love the photos.

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  3. katie Avatar

    Looks like it was a great Thanksgiving. I love the saturday morning farmers market 🙂

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  4. the wife of an artist Avatar

    Yum! Gary Danko! My husband and I went there for our first time about 6 months ago. It was divine! Tell me you had a few samples from the insane cheese cart!!

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  5. Melissa Mann Avatar

    looks like a wonderful trip!!! “friends” dvd’s for 8.99….eek!! good find!

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  6. kristen Avatar
    kristen

    Had so much fun with you guys this weekend! As always, you put together a lovely collection of photos to catalog the trip 🙂
    And I totally agree that the cyber-monday sales are intense this year! I don’t remember them flooding the inboxes quite this much before.

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  7. giuseppina Avatar

    looks like you had a great time! yummy food…beautiful flowers.
    thanks for sharing!

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  8. sinta Avatar

    wow… SF….we went to SF last july (me living in indonesia) and it was fantastic. i luv SF….Elise, really luv your blog, really inspiring…yours are on my 1st bloglist that i read daily..:) please visit mine if you had time

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  9. Jessica O'Brien Avatar

    such a lovely wrap-up and post! i loooooove those flower pictures!

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