What I’m Loving Wednesday

* It’s Wednesday 

* Looking forward to a weekend of not going to work

* Podcasts

* Shutterfly sending me emails reminding me of my memories and seeing how much our kids have changed

* Book recommendations from Young Miss

* Green and flowering trees and plants

* Armchair traveling with friends’ posts and texts

What are you loving this week?

Travel Linkup-The Presidio

I am going to post to a linkup hosted by:

California Globetrotter

TravelNotesandBeyond

Toddlers on Tour

Two Traveling Texans

TravelLatte

(Please go check out their blogs and the other blogs that are linked up!)

I am also linking up with Veravise

 

Today I am going to shar our San Francisco stop in The Presidio.

 The Golden Gate Bridge is in the Presidio area, as well a national cemetery, the former military base and several other things.

Our main stops were for the Walt Disney Family Museum and to walk around the base.

 

 

The Mr. playing with an Animatronic parrot.

We walked around the former Presidio Officers' Club. There is a small history museum inside and large "reading rooms".

 

We made a quick stop by the LucasFilm offices. There is A LOT of Star Wars related items in the lobby, it's worth a stop!

Book Review-Izzy As Is

By Tracie Bannister (click on the link for a little get to know you)

Rating: 5 stars
Genre: Chick Lit

Publisher’s Synopsis:
The party is over for bikini model Izzy Alvarez. For six years she’s made a good living by flaunting her God-given assets on runways and in front of cameras, but now as she approaches the big 3-0, the bodacious Latina is shocked to learn she’s aged out of the profession that’s kept her in mojitos, mani/pedis, and designer thongs. What’s a girl with a taste for the finer things in life and no marketable skills to do?

Getting a regular job is too boring to even consider, so Izzy decides to follow in the footsteps of her newly-engaged frenemy and become a trophy wife. Although she’s desperate and too broke to get a chipped nail fixed, Izzy still has standards for her future husband, which means no uggos, no vertically-challenged guys, and no geezers who need to pop a blue pill to perform in the bedroom. Enlisting the aid of her computer whiz nephew and her closest pals, Izzy goes on the prowl for a rich, marriage-minded man, encountering likely candidates in a lot of unlikely places.

The high life she’s dreamed of may be within reach when Izzy meets a charming, successful man who’s not only hotter than a steamy summer night in Miami, but ready to settle down. Now all Izzy has to do is make sure her loud, crazy Cuban family doesn’t scare off el hombre perfecto—oh, yeah, and squelch those pesky, romantic feelings she keeps having for the sweet, cash-strapped guy she's known forever.

Will Izzy’s hunger for money win out, or will her fiery heart demand to be heard?

My thoughts:
I love Izzy! She is the sassy lady I want to be. She says and does what’s on her mind. I laughed a lot while I was reading this. This is a fun, sassational book. You should run and get a copy right now!

Oh, and pop in and say hi to Tracie!

What I’M Loving Wednesday

Taking some inspiration from my wonderful friend, Rachel, I am finally posting to my blog.

Happy Wednesday! I hope life has been good to you for the past couple of months. It’s been busy here but it’s good.

Some things I am loving this week:

*It’s Wednesday!

*I had last weekend off - NO WORK!

*The weather is finally spring like.

*I took two awesome photo classes last weekend.

*Sweet emails over the past couple of months from some blog readers making sure I am ok. You are all the best!

*Our family is working on starting a travel blog (I will keep you updated on this progress)

*Baseball is in full swing and the Cubs had a good April.

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and rest of the week.

Cheers!