Dream of Californivacation

I’m heading home from a trip to San Francisco for my dear friend Jess’ shower.  I haven’t seen her in far too long, so my other dear friend Cathy and I flew in, and did touristy things in SF (Alcatraz, Pier 39, saw sea lions, farmer’s market etc) before getting to see Jess and her friends and family on Sunday.  I flew in a day early to see some work friends in Santa Clara on Friday.  It was great fun for such a short visit!

The XYZ axis of evil (aka Cathy, Jess and I) at Jess’s shower

As for California, I did love the amount of compost containers everywhere, and the amount of to-go containers that were completely compostable.  Why can’t we have that everywhere?!  I wonder how much that cuts down on trash/pollution… trust me I’ll be researching this.  I also got to use public transit everywhere which was awesome, though I’m completely incompetent with maps and the like.  I managed not to get lost because I got to follow Cathy, a New Yorker and master of public transit, around.

Cathy and I on the boat to Alcatraz. You can see “Karl” the friendly SF fog in the background too.

Based on my weekend getting to experience California green-ness it feels appropriate to show you the give-away I made for our Earth day party.  I gave away a bunch of recycled foaming soap bottles that I jazzed up with a couple tablets of blueland soap.  I intended to give these out as consolation prizes to those who didn’t win any of the purchased prizes, but many people chose them instead of the purchased prizes.  I got all the bottles from the local buy-nothing group, and washed them and removed all the labels.  The cricut design stencil I created myself and I’ve included below.

Love the Earth Reusable Bottles

• Cricut stencil here
• Cricut Permanent Adhesive foil
• foaming soap bottles, cleaned and removed of labels (mine were from dove soap)

1. Customize the cricut stencil to the size and number of stencils desired.
2. Cut your design on adhesive foil using normal cutting tool.
3. Weed design, then attach design to clean, dry soap container.
4. Fill container with 9oz of hot water, drop in foaming tablet

Julius was so pleased with his sourdough turtle that I brought back for him that he said “I am DEFINITELLY moving to California someday”. He previously commented he was going to move there because they had ghost sharks and California rolls.

Patricia also enjoyed her sourdough bear.