Bay to Breakers 2012

This weekend was amazing for a number of reasons, and to kick the weekend recap off with a bang, let's discuss Bay to Breakers!  This is the kind of race that is perfect for the non-athletic type.  Here's how it works:

1) Dress up in silly costumes with your friends.  My roomie's friends had the idea of dressing up as ducks, and we may have played multiple rounds of Duck Duck Goose amidst all the madness.

2) Start drinking at 7 am.  Feel free to ease into it with mimosas, but shots will be consumed before 8.

3) Make friends with everyone you meet.  Everyone is so friendly, and it's amazing to have magical moments with strangers over their costumes.  Seriously, made a new best friend today just because we were both wearing fanny packs.

4) Take a drink with you for the race.  Preferably in a shatterproof water bottle.  These things are freaking genius!

5) Stop for snacks even if you have to wait in line at the mini mart for 15 minutes.

6) Don't feel pressure to make it more than a mile into the race before you lay in a park... and then decide to call it a day.

7) SKIP EVERYWHERE.

This was one of my favorite San Francisco memories by far.  And the recovery nap felt so good.

Ducks in a row. (Pic stolen from roomie's facebook).

Sunshine-y B2B fun.

Love my roomie.

Quack.

So. much. fun.

Pure madness.

Cute pup! So obsessed.

Bay to Breakers 2012. 

Cheers!

Two of my close friends from college came up to San Francisco this weekend, and we sure made the most of our time together.  It was a gloriously warm day in the city on Saturday, so we laid out a few blocks from my apartment at Fort Mason with my roomie and another SF friend.  After a shenanigan-filled Saturday evening, we had a lazy Sunday; mimosa brunch, The Lucky One, a quick trip to a suddenly chilly beach, and a yummy dinner.

Love these girls.

My Britt Britt.

All of SF came out to play in the sun.

Fun night.

Hoisting Brittany closer to her man.

In spite of freezing temperatures, I did stick my toe in the water.  That's right, just a toe ha.

The Golden Gate Bridge is somewhere back there.

Yum! Definitely going back to Naked Fish.

Sometimes I worry that I will never be as happy as I was in college.  I made the most of my three and a half years at UCLA, and now that all my friends are all spread out, it's harder for us to all get together.  But weekends like this remind me that my friendships with these ladies and the new memories we make together will bring a new kind of post-college happiness I never imagined possible.