I heart San Francisco!

(I may be running out of ways to title these posts with a name of a city or state.  We'll see how creative I can get.)

I've been taking the bus into the city every day this week to get to my internship at the Rainforest Action Network and so far, I have no complaints except that my legs are a bit sore (and even that's getting better!).  Because our house is set back into a valley, in a very beautiful, wooded neighborhood, the bus that runs from Mill Valley into the city is a mile away.  In the morning, the walk is downhill, which is nice, but of course, in the evening, its uphill. Its not very steep, though, so for now, I'm actually enjoying the walk home!

The office I'm in is in the financial district of San Fran, so its in the middle of all of the big buildings and good lunch restaurants, which is a really cool change of pace from the secluded woods-y-ness of home. I get to cross the Golden Gate Bridge every day, and I have to say, with the awesome view of the fog over the bay, its a better view than the capitol building from the metro (not that that view wasn't neat too!).One of the first things I like to do in a new city is check out the shopping (of course!) just in case I ever need something, so it was really great that the other two interns, Lindsay and Rachel, and I decided to do some shopping (all window though, I didn't find anything I needed, although now I'm thinking about a new jacket, its cold sometimes!) on Monday!  They're both from the are, so they were able to show me around quite a bit, which I really appreciated.

Like I said, I haven't found anything to complain about yet, because everyone at RAN is really nice and helpful, and I'm really excited about the outline we have of the projects we'll work on this fall. One is with some Girl Scouts, about getting palm oil out of their cookies, and being a former Girl Scout, I can't wait to start working with them! I've already started a few cool things too, and its good to be keeping busy.

Charles is still in Davis, and although he's enjoying his time there, I know that we're both ready for him to get home.  We've got a lot of work to do on the house that I know we'd both like to start.  Plus, it would be a little sad if I did a wine tasting by myself, so I need my partner back! Good thing he's done on Saturday...