The Trip

We are back! The trip was a success...whoo hoo!! We planned to fly into Oakland but we got to the airport (no, we didn't check first!) and found that our flight was delayed 2-3 hours. We managed to get on a plane to San Francisco and rent a car and drive to the hotel in Oakland. It actually worked out pretty well. We were super early getting to Berkeley because I, as usual, was overanxious. We decided to go to a wonderful french restaurant we found a year or so ago and pick up some pastries for the staff of TSBC to go with the box of chocolates. It took forever but we were right on time. It is weird how you build something up in your head for so long and it is somewhat anticlimactic when it happens. It was another day at the office for everyone but we were very excited. They brought out the tank and took us in a room so that we could look at the vials (Taylor thought this was pretty cool as the liquid nitrogen vapor comes out of the tank...our own personal music video). For people who aren't in the know I think it is shocking that the vials are so small (especially as they cost so much). They are about an inch high and had a color, number, and ejaculation date on them. We drove them to California Cryobank and had a lovely lunch (bringing them even better chocolates!) with my old co-workers (I can't rave enough about how wonderful they all are) and filled out our paperwork. So the babies (or baby making materials) are now in their new home and are being well taken care of until we need them. We then had to drive back to Berkeley and return the tank. The rest of the weekend was great. We saw some friends...our friends April and Jake are in the process of trying to adopt and we are so excited for them. It was really interesting to discuss some of the parallels between their road to parenthood and ours. We ate a lot of bad for us food and spent some time in the city. We remembered why we love San Francisco and decided that we don't want to rule out the possibility of living there again some day. We are committed to being in Portland for the next four years and we really enjoy our current jobs but you never know! January is a month of doctor's appointments so I will keep you updated.