(birth)day of fun!

Kelly and Nick came to visit for my birthday! After a lovely dinner at Jupiter on Sunday night, we hit the Cal campus for a tour.

In the reading room at Doe Library.

Kelly and Mark sharing a moment.

I took Monday off, so we got to sleep in for a while before heading down to Oakland to bail Tak out of work for sushi (#1!) and sightseeing.

We visited the Oaksterdam mural across the street from his office.

And the Kaiser roof garden (which was new to me).

Tak on the roof garden bridge.

Next up was the Oakland cathedral. It's pretty spectacular.

The mausoleum

We did our best to show up the Seattle coffee scene by taking them to Blue Bottle in Jack London.

It's' all the rage with the hip kids.

We had big plans to see some redwoods in Redwood Regional Park, but there were fewer than we anticipated.

But I did learn about fish ladders!

We navigated our way through the Berkeley hills (and the Cav survived!) in the hopes of getting a GGB shot for Kelly and Nick's holiday card. You could sort of see it (not in this picture, though).

Our holiday card?

Kelly and Nick's deep, pensive shot.

Finally, it was off to T-Rex to meet many of my favorite folks for a scrumptious birthday dinner. Mmm mmm.