Showing posts with label ryan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ryan. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2011

First stop: SF

My friends,

I arrived in San Francisco for the first leg of my trip to a empty house full of thoughtful notes and surprises!

(Page and Ryan are on honeymoon number two to Maui and were kind enough to let me stay at their home until I fly out with Kristin to Europe.)

As soon as I walked in, there was a nice little welcome sign with a lavender chocolate (delish) and a stack of magazines...

an adorable nail kit that Kristin and I will be using tomorrow night...


and a nice reminder that I can borrow some samples from the birchbox Page received a couple weeks ago.


Best of all, Ryan stocked up on toaster strudel for me! My favorite.


I even had some for dessert tonight.

You guys are the best!!

Looking forward to Kristin coming over tomorrow!

xooxoxxoxoxooxoxoxoxo

Sunday, November 7, 2010

top of the mark to ya

Dearest friends,

I can't believe the weekend is over already. Robbie and I had a lovely, short visit to San Francisco to visit Page and Ryan. Although out trip was short, it was just enough time to make me remember just how much I loooove hanging out with those two.

Robbie and I took off on Friday after work and got up to SF by about 8. Page and Ryan showed off their adorable home and we all took a walk to get pizza.

The next morning, we went to the Academy of Sciences, a museum that Page and Ryan have been raving about for the last two years since Ryan moved to SF.


(We had a good, inappropriate laugh at these little guys... We're so immature.)

One of the coolest things about the Academy was its "living roof." It's a self-sustaining habitat that grows on top of the museum. How amazing is that?!



Favorite picture of the trip. Handsome.


The museum was kind of like a zoo too; there were a ton of living animals (including stingrays- my favorite).


GIANT frog. He was so funny to look at. He must've been about 10 inches in height. SO big.


Night at the Museum?! Anyone?! That dinosaur reminds me so much of that movie.


After the museum, a nap and a quick check on Zenyatt and the Michigan game (Robbie was beyond bummed that he missed the most epic game in Michigan's history) we headed to the Top of the Mark, a restaurant at one of the highest points in the city.

Walking the hills in heels. Page is such a trooper.



Being the type of people who make inappropriate jokes about little deer named dikdiks, we continued to greet each other at the restaurant by saying, "top of the mark to ya" in weird, fake irish accents. We would.

Robbie ordered a pink martini. Please check it out in the bottom right corner so he'll be completely embarrassed.


The newlyweds.

Top of the Mark crew ready for some brewskies. We headed to Lefty O'Douls (I think?) for a giant dinner and beers, then caught the Muni back to Ryan and Page's house.

Since Robbie was missing Gin Fizz, a biannual party that his fraternity puts on that involves waking up at 7 a.m., eating a breakfast burrito at Frank's and drinking Gin Fizz, a smoothie made up of sherbert ice cream, bananas, 7-Up, Sunny-D, Gin and ice, until the late afternoon, we decided to celebrate Gin Fizz, San Francisco style.

The boys mixed up the drinks while Page and I set up Cranium.

The events that followed will probably never disclosed to save the four of us from complete embarrassment.

Robbie and I had such a fabulous trip and we both look forward to visiting again.

Sadly, I won't be seeing Page and Ryan until the Schiller-McCarthy tournament (those darn McCarthys would probably call it the McCarthy-Schiller tournament, but us Schillers know the true order of the names).

Until then... top of the mark to ya!

xoxoxoxoxoox

Sunday, October 24, 2010

blogging, how i've missed you

Dearest friends,

Can you believe it? I haven’t blogged since AUGUST! This was for a lot of reasons, one being that I’ve been wanting to redo my blogspot site into a wordpress site. Another reason was because Karen stopped blogging and not seeing her beautiful photos and reading her funny stories made me really depressed (Jules- you know what I’m talking about).

Even though my new site isn’t complete, I at least wanted to get it up and running because I just plain miss blogging and posting pictures.

Here are a few!




Ryan took this one of me a couple weeks ago so I could start making yet another site (nikolschiller.com… it’s definitely NOT finished yet!) for an online portfolio kind of deal. Thanks, Ryan!

Then I took a couple of him:



We used his friend’s camera. It was beautiful and sweet.

More updates later!

xoxo,

Nikol