Friend Thanksgiving

We got together this last weekend to have a Thanksgiving dinner with our friends.  It was important to spend this quality time together since we are all going separate ways for the holidays but most of the time we are each other's family.

Lex making the gravy

Nick & Dave

Lola

Jack

The Shout House

Rich & Lois

Will & Monik

Ben & Lara

Joe & Jessica

The Girls

Angela & I

Tyson & Angela

San Francisco

We decided to do a fun little weekend trip to San Francisco.  It is a pretty amazing city full of culture and art.  We stayed at a little retro hotel in Union Square and used the public transportation to discover the city.

Beautiful sunset on the way back from the Golden Gate Bridge

A view of downtown San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge

What a patriotic picture!!

The beautiful Golden Gate Bridge

This was along the path to the bridge

Here is a random pigeon in the restaurant we decided to try that is supposedly "San Francisco's best pizza place"

  Of course we had to make a pitstop here and have some amazing icecream

Fisherman's Wharf

Alcatraz

Riding the street car

Entrance to Chinatown

Little Italy

Here is one of San Diego's coolest places...

Authentic Italian food and cool little markets

Momma Mac & I

Chris & Kenzie's SoCal Vacation

Nick's lil sis and her husband decided to take a little vacay and come visit...

Chris & McKenzie

with the beautiful Pacific Ocean 

We went for a ride around Coronado on some beach cruisers.

They could be twins!!

She's a star

Bros for life

Joining the heart...both wore this necklace through the deployment.

Dan & Nick with their best camera face

Spanish dancers