Everything about it was so beautiful and especially the golf courses. The US Open is at the Pebble Beach golf club this weekend so there were white media tents allover.

We expected it to be warm but it was so windy and cold! Thankfully I found my toque in the car!

Jesse’s mom was named one of Canada’s top 100 most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network. We are so proud of her! This week there was a reception to celebrate her success.  It was amazing to watch her in her element and see the impact she’s having at that school.

A few links from recent press:

• 570News – Laurier’s dean of business one of most powerful women in Canada
• globecampus.ca: Ginny Dybenko: No shelter from the storm in the ivory tower
• Laurier business dean named one of Canada’s most powerful women – TheRecord.com – News
• One of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women – TheRecord.com – Business
• WONDER WOMAN – Dean of Business and Economics Dybenko spent 30 years in the business sector.
• Group lauds Laurier Dean Dybenko
• Creating high-tech entrepreneurs with finance and marketing savvy
• Ginny Dybenko – Wilfrid Laurier University – School of Business & Economics
• New dean of the Laurier school of business and economics brings international focus to her role

Here are a few more reasons why she’s so special to us

Saturday night we were walking around the Mission Bay area after seeing a place and decided to buy some scalped tickets to the Giants (baseball) game – $10 each at AT&T Park.  It is such a great stadium with open air seats and bleachers and a view of the bay.  As expected, the game couldn’t hold our attention for more than 4 innings so we ditched at the 7th inning stretch, but it was definitely worth it.

Sunday night we took a 20 minute bus ride from our place to the other side of the city and a trail on the Pacific Ocean called Land’s End.  We couldn’t help but be amazed at how lucky we were to be living in a city where we could hop on a city bus to enjoy a gorgeous view of the ocean and rocky cliffs.

We can’t wait to have some of you come and visit!

More pictures at ATT Park

This panorama is 3 photos stitched together in Photoshop

They didn’t seem to have any deep-fried crispy sushi here, but we found some we liked as the boats floated past.

The rental car facility had no record of our 30 day reservation and had no available cars so we had to get a van from another rental car place on our own dime.  After searching for a hotel or motel room for about 45 minutes (no vacancies anywhere – it’s tourist season) we headed down to Fisherman’s Wharf and found the least shady available parking space to spend the night in the van.  Definitely a memorable first night in the city.

All is good now though – we’re settled in to our beautiful apartment (we hadn’t been given the super’s cell phone # to wake her last night for the key – see picture) and we will be getting the rental car situation figured out later tonight (apparently the onus was on me to have the car booked through Apple, in my interview trip a rental car had been booked for me by Apple).

Things are looking up!

Jesse and I wound up sleeping in our rental car with Parker down by Fisherman’s Wharf.  It’s now 9:00am and we have not yet been let into our place although we just got a call back from the building manager.  Jesse is over at the gate trying to figure it all out.

We are supposed to meet our Destination Service girl in about an hour. I’m not in the greatest of moods to go see the city and look at apartments.  I kind of look (and probably smell) like a homeless person who’s been sleeping with a dog.  I’ve shed a few tears for missing home and some for pure frustration.  Missing you all.

This past week has been so busy and hectic and today has seemed to have lasted forever already but we are finally waiting for our final flight from Newark, NJ to San Francisco.  I know that all of the stress and hard work will be worth it when we drive into San Francisco along the 101 freeway winding through the moutains into the city and we can finally walk along the hilly streets of our new home.

So that’s what I am thinking about… that, and for some reason I can’t get that incredibly annoying song from Tetris out of my head.

It’s super hot here 92 degrees. We know Parkers nearby but we won’t sill her until we both land in SF.  Hope she gets some water in this heat!

Two hours to go until we fly.  We take off at 6:55pm.

Jesse had to show all his documents, but there was no interview. Now he can just relax.

Apparently, everyone feels the need to remind me that I probably won’t be able to work in the states. How nice of them.