School's Out For... Well, Three Weeks, Anyway.

The last few weeks have been crazy to say the least. For those who don't know, Jen has had some issues with vertigo. She is prone to nausea and motion sickness in general and has been for years, but the last few months have been pretty bad. Her dizzy spells have lasted days, and the last one she had was at work, and her coworkers sat with her until she was well enough to go home.

The bad news of this was, it was affecting her schoolwork. She ended up cutting out her externship prematurely, and not completing the course. This puts a small hiccup in her school plans. Although she will finish her academic courses on time, her externship schedule was pushed back until next year, and so she will be graduating December 2014 instead of in May. On the plus side, she was able to retain the hours that she has earned so far, so she will have a few less to complete when her classes start back up.

It's been a bit of a toll on us, so whenever we have a chance, we try to get out. A few weeks ago, we decided to drive up to San Francisco one Friday and make a day of it. We started out at Industrial Light and Magic, which is a cool little place if you're a Star Wars fan. We only had a few minutes there, but of course we took a ton of photos while we were there. We also got to drive around the Presidio, and the Palace of Fine Arts, before heading over to hunt down a pizza food truck.

Casey's Pizza is a food truck that is around the San Francisco area, and Jeff found when he was following different food trucks on Twitter. While we were in San Francisco, we thought we would give it a try, and it's the BEST! The pizza was super-thin and tasted great, so much that we ended up getting seconds!

We were in San Francisco to go to Union Square. Giada De Laurentiis, one of the Food Network chefs, was there doing a book signing, and Jen was dying to go. So we headed up to Union Square and did a little window shopping before heading into the huge Williams Sonoma. If you've never been to this store, it's four floors of kitchenwares, and we loved browsing in it. The line to meet Giada was huge, and we were smart to get in line an hour before the signing. She was on the top floor, and the line wound around the stairs and around each floor, out the door onto Post Street and around the corner down Stockton. We didn't stick around for too long after we got our books signed, but Jen was told there would be a limit to 400 signatures and only those that had bought her new book would be getting signatures, and there had to be over 1000 people in line.

School's winding down for us both, and we are stumbling over the finish line this term. Between sickness and everything else, we both barely got through this term. On the plus side, we have a few weeks off from school, so we will take a little time to recuperate and relax before we gear up for more school.

Here's hoping for a quiet summer!