A day in SF with the Fam
July 20, 2008
Dad and Melissa were up in San Francisco this weekend for a surprise birthday thing for their friends from England. And, after that was all finished, the lot of us got together.
So what’d we do?
- Savannah and I dressed up in the matching tie-dye shirts we bought yesterday on Telegraph! (I LOVE me some tie-dye)
- Listened to everyone complain about how cold it was
- We met at their hotel and then got some breakfast/brunch at Café Andrée at Hotel Rex (which is located up by Union Square). [Oh this brings up a quirky side comment! So I love pancakes. Berry. Chocolate. Berry and Chocolate - if it’s sweet and can be put in a pancake (especially whole wheat pancakes) then whip ‘em on up and hand ‘em on over! But there’s one little itsy bitsy requirement. If these pancakes are going to need maple syrup then it absolutely HAS to be real maple syrup (read: NOT that corn syrup crap). Some people say they can’t taste a 
difference… but what that really tells me is that someone took hot coals to these poor fools tongues and burnt out all the really important taste buds. I cannot stand fake maple syrup. It destroys the deliciousness that is the pancake. So of course I have to make sure they have the real stuff (or else I have to order something else). Thankfully, after I had an extended conversation with the waiter (who then spoke to the chef) (where all this was accompanied by head-shakings and laughs of disbelief from the family) we discovered that they had the real stuff. Yay!]
- Took the BART to my house (Dad and Melissa hadn’t seen it yet)
- Got off the BART
- For the FIRST TIME EVER I went the wrong way on Mission after getting off the BART (went South instead of North)
- Recovered
- Endured about three hours of being told I had to move out of the area
- Showed them yesterday’s blog post
- Endured more comments about how I live in the ghetto… and how, really, I’m moving
- Took the BART back to the Powell/Mall stop
- listened to more complaints about how cold it is
- told them they were all crazy - that this weather is perfect!
- Got some food
- After food Dad and Melissa had to go to SFO
- Said “goodbye!”
- At which point Savannah and I decided we needed to continue hanging out
- Where the first thing we needed to do was get some delicious cookies to share
- We then decided to get our eyebrows waxed at the Benefit brow bar in Macy’s
- Did that
- Looked awesome
- Shopped around some more (I want an ipod… though my last one got stolen [about two years ago] and ever since I’ve been disinclined to buy another]
- Got more chocolate
- Took a video about said chocolate
- walked around some more and got Savannah some good smelling hair goo
- parted ways on BART
So all in all a good Sunday. And now I must get to bed because I have a 5:45AM wakeup call (because I’m riding to work)
For more pictures, go here
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My favorite part of that video is at 6 seconds when you guys echo each others cheers whilst wearing matching tie die shirts. I recommend repeat that second over and over for a good laugh. “Yay, Yay!”
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