Rachel's Visit

I love it when old friends come to visit! It's like part of me has been forgotten, and then suddenly comes back to life while they're around. Rachel and I have been friends since middle school. We used to tell people we were the same but different. I'm still not really sure what that means but I think we were trying to tell people we were happy to have a friend we shared so much with, but we also had differences and that was OK. I'm lucky that she has business trips in this area because I never seem to make it over to Boston.
Rachel almost always has her camera out so I hardly ever take pictures while she's visiting. So I'm using all her pictures for this post. She took a LOT of pictures and I can't help but share a LOT of them with you.







We did other stuff besides playing with Will. In fact, I think I planned so much stuff we were all exhausted by the time Rachel left for her conference.
First I took her for a quick walk up to "the dish". We just walked up the first hill of this nearby trail to get an amazing view across the bay, the Santa Clara valley, and the small mountain range between us and the ocean.
I can't believe how green everything is right now. It was a wonderful way to start the day.

Later we met up with another friend of mine and went out for Crepes. Yumm! We went to Crepes Cafe in Menlo Park and I still dream about the caramelized apple crepe. The apples were swimming in butter and I think Julia Childs would have approved.We also went to the Stanford Cantor Arts Center.

My favorite was the Asian art section. Will can say Buddha now. Ashley and Rachel held Will a lot during our trip which was so nice for me. My arms are getting a little too buff lately.
And Rachel came to church with us on Sunday and graciously helped entertain and comfort the little kids in nursery. I think Will really appreciated having someone he knew in there.
We had tons of fun in a short amount of time, and she just told me she might be out here again in April. I'll try to make any future visits more low-key, I promise.