Days 1 & 2

Hello framily!
We've created this temporary space to keep you updated on the first few weeks of our move as efficiently as possible. Without further ado:

We woke up bright and early on Saturday morning to get to the airport in Des Moines for our 9:45am flight. We said goodbye to my parents and boarded our teeny airplane to Denver where we were seated next to twin babies which also happened the last time we flew to Denver. Neither time was a bad experience. I just found it interesting.
Over Denver, we waved to Skabbey and then went straight to our next flight to San Francisco. Fun fact: Victor and I sit in the very back of the plane 4 out of every 5 flights we take.

Once we landed in SF, we got our bags and took the airtrain to the car rental place where I guarded our bags from the hundreds of angry people trying to get cars and Victor waited in line for 40 minutes. We got our car (which the company had reserved and paid for until our car gets shipped to us) and drove to our temporary housing by Bay Bridge.

Rental Car

Our housing is fine. It's one of those large complexes with a gym and a pool and a parking garage. It looks kind of like a resort. It's comfortable, and we have everything we need, but it's definitely not somewhere I'd want to live permanently. Our room faces the pool, which is almost always filled with bros, and since we need to keep our windows open for airflow, it can get pretty obnoxious.

By the time we got to our place, picked up our keys and found our parking spot, it was about 3pm our time. We unpacked and relaxed for a little bit before venturing out for some food. We decided on a nearby place called Super Duper Burgers, and it was, in fact, super duper. It's pretty much like a Meatheads except everything is free range and organic and compostable.

We walked along The Embarcadero for awhile before going back and going to bed.

Sunday morning we went to Epic Church. When we were researching churches about a month or so ago, this is one that we'd looked at because it's a plant of Francis Chan's church in Southern California, and it ended up being just a few blocks from where we're staying. It was in the basement of some office building, and it was fine. I wouldn't go as far as epic, but we got free mugs.
After church, we ventured to Safeway because all we had to eat were the Slim Jims Mom sent with us. The Safeway is about 3/4 of a mile from us so we emptied our backpacks and walked there. It was pretty difficult deciding what to get because we had nothing but could only buy what we could carry. Also, we knew things would be more expensive here, but we definitely had sticker shock. Even with the savings from our new Safeway club member card, it was still $60 for our very basic groceries that we could carry in two backpacks and two plastic sacks (that thankfully we remembered to bring with us because you have to pay for bags here).

After getting groceries, we decided to drive around some different neighborhoods to get a feel for where we might want to live. We ventured across the bay to Berkeley and Oakland North. Both were nice, more residential and Midwest. We came back into SF and drove to Cole Valley/Twin Peaks area, and I fell in love with SF for the first time. This area is so incredibly beautiful. You can see the entire city and the bay and the mountains, and the fog is rolling across the top of the hills all the time. It doesn't feel at all like anywhere in the United States. We walked around this area for quite awhile.

We came home around 6, made dinner, watched Mrs. Doubtfire and went to bed.

Days 1 & 2=moderate success

Also, Victor on his first day of work this morning!