SF Wrapped up

I'm just wrapping up my time at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Fransisco today- I had a few more photos to share, along with my highs and lows.  

Highlights: the Farmer's Market at Fort Mason Pier- such pretty salad, amazing fresh squeezed orange juice and peaches! 
Lowlights: the mad rush to attempt to get the work 7 blocks to the post office in time for us to leave for our flight, (no taxi's wanting to pick us up with our boxes, me running with a hotel dolly with 2 of the largest boxes to the post office, being late for our shuttle etc. etc.) and then finding out at the airport that our flight was 2 hours delayed.  Definitely the hardest part of this adventure was not being able to ship anything from or to the actual venue. 

Travel Bug

 Balloons over Gerome by John Rawlinson on Flickr

My traveling days have been put aside these past few years and I had slowly let the ol' passport expire.  Having 2 small children, trying to make a go of it as a ceramic artist, and not having a lot of extra traveling money has meant all of my trips over the past 5 years have been within Canada.  Finally, after royally procrastinating all summer long, I got down to the Passport office to get the kids and I passports and we got them in the mail this past thursday.  Just holding my passport in my hands did it for me.  All of a sudden the Mediterranean was calling me.  I was drooling over photos of Hot Air ballooning in Turkey and I can't stop reading Hither and Thither's latest Travelogue about Sardinia.  And invariably I'm dreaming about where we can go with our kids in tow.   Certainly a lot more challenging and expensive.  And going on a trip with all of Dean's family this spring to Disneyland is not going to cut it for me...