Public Health????

Whenever I tell people that my major is Public Health the usual response is "whats that?" We recently watched this video in one of my classes and I think it does a really good job describing public Health. Enjoy.

Happy Birthday x3!

This weekend we went up to my Aunts house for a birthday party for my Uncle Ted, Grandma and Dan. They all have September birthdays so we get together and celebrate them all at once. It was tons of fun! Dan got spoiled big time! His actual birthday was yesterday so we had our friends some over for some birthday pie. Happy Birthday!
I Love You!!!

Seeing Red Again

My brothers and I all happened to wear red to a family birthday party.

Labor Day Weekend

Hey. Things have been so busy with school and family in town that I haven't had time to post pictures from our labor day camping trip. Dan and I went camping one night during labor day weekend with my family up on Mt. Lemon. It was lots of fun! We ate yummy food, went hiking, slept in a massive storm in a leaky tent, and enjoyed cool weather for a change.
Here are some pics.

I made our tin foil dinners before we left the house.

They turned out sooo good.
Why is it that food tastes so much better while camping?

On the way up the mountain Jack sat on my lap and stuck his head as far out of the window as he could without falling out.

Roasting Marshmallows. One of my favorite things about camping.

Jack liked the Marshmallows too.

Josh in the bear box.

I think this is a super cute picture of Josh. We were walking through clouds on the top of the mountain.

The kids at the top of the mountain.

And the family at the top, minus Dan.

The Last San Francisco Post......I Promise

On our last day of tourist action we went to Alamo Square. It's a park with some really cute Victorian style houses across street. You might recognize them from the opening credits of Full House. That honestly the only reason why I wanted to go and see them. Its crazy to think that people actually live there. I think it would be annoying to look out your window constantly seeing people taking pictures on you door step. After that we went to Fort Point to get a good view of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was really cool to be right underneath the bridge. It looked huge. The weather was beautiful for most of the trip but out at the beach near the bridge it was soooooo windy and freezing. We hung out on the beach for a while. It was so relaxing. I wish I could have gone swimming, but the water was ice cold! So that pretty much sums up our vacation. It was so much fun. I am so grateful that we had the opportunity to take time off and be together for a few days.

Alamo Square.

There were some silly European girls who kept posing on the stairs of this house, so we decided to mimic them. :)

This is on the roof of Fort Point looking down inside it. You can tell how windy and cold it was by my beautiful hair.


This is one of the cannons that they never had to use.


I love this picture. It totally looks like we just photo shopped ourselves in. We are really there I promise.

This is on the beach looking back at the Golden Gate Bridge.


My dream house is in the background overlooking the ocean.

Our footprints in the sand.

This little, or should I say HUGE Caterpillar was waiting for us by our front door when we got home.

San Franciso (day 2)

Its the weekend!! And it's a long one too. I'm so excited. So that means that I have time to post more pictures from our vacation. So the second day of our trip we went back out to downtown San Francisco to see the things we missed the first day. Especially because I didn't want to leave without song to the Top of the Mark (my grandpas favorite place in SF). Since we didn't go down towards fisherman's wharf there weren't as many tourists, which we enjoyed. We went to a really cool market place that had some cool shops and over looked the bay bridge. The bay bridge is crazy long and it's double-decker. Pretty cool looking. While we were waiting for Top of the Mark to open we went to Grace Cathedral. It was very beautiful and had gorgeous stained glass on the inside. Then it was off to Top of the Mark for lunch. Top of the Mark is a restaurant at the top of the Mark Hopkins hotel. It was one of my Grandpa Tidwells favorite places to go have a drink, so in his memory I had a Shirley Temple (cherry sprite). It was the most expensive lunch I think we have ever had but the amazing 360 degree view of the city made it worth it. After that we went to China Town. It was like a Chinese Mexico and I wasn't too impressed. I guess my expectations were set to high. That evening we went with our friend Todd, who we were staying with, to Google for a tour and dinner. It was a very cool and interesting place. I bet it would be pretty fun to work there.

In front of the Bay Bridge.

I had to get the classic tourist pic on the cable car.

Grace Cathedral

Our view from Top of the Mark. Isn't it beautiful?

My Shirley Temple. Yummy.

China Town!

This pic is in front of gate at China Town. The lady who took our pic didnt do a very good job getting it in the background. Oh well.

San Francisco (day 1)

We had such a blast on our trip to San Francisco. I wish it could have been longer! We spent 3 days seeing the sites of the BIG city. The first day we took BART, the subway, to downtown San Francisco. Dan said it reminded him of riding the subway in Hungary except it was a lot cleaner in Hungary. When we got downtown we stood in a crazy long line to purchase tickes to ride the cable car further into the city. While in line a nice old man and his wife approached us and give us their passes that they weren't able to use anymore. We thought that was great cause it saved us money and time because we didn't have to wait in the line anymore. The cable car was lots of fun, It's crazy how those things can go up and down such steep hills. The cable car dropped us off at the top of Lombard Street. The craziest most windy street ever. After the hike down Lombard Street we went to Ghirardelli Square. We had the BEST hot fudge sunday. Sooooo yummy! After filling our tummies with yummy chocolate we walked along Fisherman's Warf. It was almost like being in Mexico with all of the little shops along the street. Along the way we bought some super cool sunglasses. We walked down several piers to check out the view of the ocean. Our favorite was Pier 39 because of the seals. They were so funny to listen and watch. Here are the pictures from our first day. There will be more pictures to come, as soon as school settles down a bit.

My first ride on a subway.




Here we are on the Cable Car.


At the top of Lombard Street...


...And at the bottom.




YUMMY!!!


Striking a pose with our SWEET new sunglasses!


HAHA! I laughed every time I saw this sign. It's pretty sad that I have the same sense of humor as my 9 year-old brother.


A view of Alcatraz from a pier.


Check out all those seals.




We were trying to get the view of the city in the background. It didn't work out so well.