Four Eyes

I'm wearing my new pair of glasses as I sit here typing this. One of the things I learned in optometry school is that it's not a good idea to wear contact lenses for 18 hours a day, which I've been doing for, oh I dunno, 10 years now! I've always felt like I look horrible in glasses and I hate how wearing them doesn't feel nearly as natural as contact lenses, but I found a pair I'm pretty happy with. Now it's just a matter of switching into them when I get home to give my eyes a break.

Speaking of giving my eyes a break...

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The other night Andy and I were browsing through recipes on foodgawker.com and I came across these beauties! They're called "Sin"amon Morning Muffins. I haven't gotten a chance to try making them yet, but they look absolutely delicious. Mmmm!

Recipe - Cowboy Cookies

I've got a couple new posts up my sleeve, but while I work on those I thought I'd share one of my favorite recipes. If you've never had cowboy cookies you are truly missing out! I found this recipe online a few years ago. My grandma makes them slightly different and hers are delicious as well, but I don't know what I did with her recipe so I just follow the one below.

Vacation, Day 7

Thursday May 6^th

We spent our afternoon driving back to San Francisco, with a little detour through Berkeley along the way. We drove up a very steep hill hoping to see some of the best homes. The houses that we saw had great views, but most were very close together and minimal parking meant that many cars had to park along the already narrow streets, sometimes parking on both sides and only leaving enough room for one car to pass. Our impression was that it's a charming, but a crowded and overly expensive place to live.

On our way back into San Francisco we drove across Bay Bridge. At one point the road was 10 lanes wide (all in the same direction). After checking into our hotel we walked to Miette, an adorable French themed candy shop (although their sweets come from many different countries), where we picked up a number of tasty treats, including macarons, chocolates, caramels, and salty licorice. The store was so cute that I actually busted out the camera...

Those sardines are really chocolates! Adorable!


Mast Brothers Chocolate - had to buy one of those! Apparently the flavor Andy bought was salty.


These cute cookies matched the wallpaper (see below).




Graham cracker, Gingersnap, and Chocolate Wafer cookies.


Pastel colored malt balls.


Macarons, gumballs, jellybeans, and more!

Unfortunately I didn't get a photo, but Andy also got some chocolates that looked like little pebbles. It's a really good thing that I don't like chocolate because everything looked so good I'm sure I would have wanted to try one of everything!

In keeping with the French theme we walked around the corner to The Crepe House where we had crepes for dessert. After being on the go for so long we decided to take it easy and spend the rest of the night in, resting our tired feet and enjoying a movie.