So.. I haven’t posted in awhile.. but to sum up the last few weeks I have
Gone to 1 horse race and lost $18 but got a free t-shirt! “Run” 1 crazy “race” called bay-to-breakers in which 50,000 people throw tortillas, dress up in crazy costumes, build floats (usually having to do with carrying a kegger), and drink heavily
Rolled down 2 hills in a park (this park in fact..)
Eaten burritos 3 times in Delores Park (see Left) and gone to 3 awesome concerts (Mason Jennings, Manu Chao, and Afrodesiac–a brass band with African influence)
Gone to at least 4 of the 578 taquerías within 4 blocks of my apartment. (A taquería is pretty much kicks the shit out of all other Mexican restaurants.. and its fast food style.)
Attended 5 different different events in 1 day.. namely the Mission Carnival parade and festival, an awesome designer fair in Hayes Valley, Opera in the Park, and drank 5 drinks at local bars in the mission.. (does that count?)
So thats about it for the last few weeks.. =) I’m lookin’ forward to my parents coming in a few weeks!
Brendan’s parents and grandma are here for his graduation, so we have been touring.. getting up at the crack of dawn to get a head start on what is a loooong day of crazy adventures. This morning we all piled into the Charger they rented to trek through Marin county (the lush hills that are on the northern end of the bay). We started by crossing the Golden Gate bridge and heading up the hills near the ocean. We went up and down more hills than I could count, visited a scale model of the hydrology of the San Francisco Bay (2 football fields in area), took in a Frank Lloyd Wright civic center and post office in San Rafael, walked Muir Woods, and caught some of the best views I have ever seen. We ended up in Fairfax going out to dinner with some of Brendan’s wacky relatives that none of them had ever met. All in all a good day.
I made it to San Fran! I got here yesterday. Brendan met Preston and I at the airport with a stupid little mini cooper. For those of you who have never been in a mini cooper.. it has no trunk and about enough room for 4 relatively small dwarfs, so it was perfect for all of our 15 bags of crap plus the 3 of us. The only way to fit bags in was to put the top down and hold on, but it was well worth watching Preston hold the bags down in the back seat while we drove with the top down on the freeway in 50 degree weather.
Somehow we got home with all our luggage, but the best was yet to come.. I went inside to see our stupidifyingly awesome apartment. It is well worth the exorbitant rent that we are paying. We have a stainless steel kitchen (which I might add is 4 times larger than my old Minneapolis kitchen), a tea room, and a sweet living room with a plasma screen TV. As if that isn’t enough, we have a backyard with a porch that looks out onto one of the oldest churches in San Francisco. The boys even chopped through the backyard (which previously resembled an equatorial jungle) and found a table, 4 chairs, a path through the “garden”, and a grill.
Gone to 1 horse race and lost $18 but got a free t-shirt! “Run” 1 crazy “race” called bay-to-breakers in which 50,000 people throw tortillas, dress up in crazy costumes, build floats (usually having to do with carrying a kegger), and drink heavily