Has it really been 1 week!?

Greetings from sunny San Fran! It's "early" Saturday morning and I wanted to write this yesterday but it didn't happen. Yesterday was our 1 week in SF anniversary! It was also a lot of other things, including:

• The end of Benoit's first week at Yelp
• The day we drained our savings
• The day we signed our lease!!!
• The day I went to happy hour at Yelp and met Benoit's coworkers and saw his desk and the founder/CEO, Jeremy
• The day it was sunny and warm after being rainy and cool for 2 days.

Benoit has completed his first (short) week at Yelp, and he's really liking it. He "pushed" a bug fix to the live website on his second day which is uncommon, but he's very modest about it. He works with 6 others on the i18n (shorthand for internationalization) team and has organized his first meeting for Monday. Everyone that I met is very nice, the office is beautiful, and as we all know the product is great! 

The other big news from yesterday is that we signed a lease on a studio apartment in SOMA! Hooray! Also hence why we drained our savings! It's ok though, don't worry Mom, we're fine! We'll be living here, and while it's not perfect (not in a neighborhood, not very close to green space) we felt the positives outweighed the negatives. We also got lucky and had someone fighting for us to get approved, so we jumped on it. We're so excited to finally have our own space again!!! And if we hate it, we'll figure something out! :) We move in next week on the 2nd!

This weekend we might do some more exploring, find a farmers market, see some sights, and relax. Highlights of the past week included: seeing Natraj on Saturday, brunch on Monday at Brenda's with Joe, Anami, and Travis, delicious dinner at Saha's on Wednesday with Polina and Tom, and being able to cook again! :) We've done a lot of walking, purchased Clipper cards (Charlie card) and have taken the bus, but haven't taken the car out of the garage once! 

It's been a whirlwind week and sorry we didn't take any photos. Next week should be quieter once everything for the move is scheduled and organized. We hope everyone survived the cold snap in Boston!

ps - go niners!! :)