Thursday, July 31, 2008

friend weekend fun plus skeeball!

Last weekend I had some peeps come to visit! First it was Charleen who arrived Wed. night, Tom on Friday afternoon and Glenn Friday night.

So, now for the fun stuff we did! We'll kick it off with Golden Gate Park, where Tom, Charleen and I wandered around for a bit, taking in the sites.
Here's a Chihuly piece outside the DeYoung Museum Here's a 'Portal of the Past' which was basically an old facade from the top of Nob Hill marking the entryway to the railroad tycoon A.N. Towne's mansion. I guess this was all that was left after the 1906 earthquake. It was a little disappointing since, from the map, it appeared that there were 'portals' not just one, and also that the only one that was there would be encased in an ugly fence undergoing 'restoration' that was due to be completed in July 2008...but it didn't quite look like they were doing much of anything. On the upside, we saw this guy and we went home and looked it up (try 'red face duck' in google) and found out it was Muscovy Duck. So on the way back to the car, we decided to check out the log cabin listed on the map. Turns out its an administrative building of sorts ta-da!
I was pretty amused, it's not like they were lying to us, it was just hard to tell what exactly you were going to get when you visited these 'sites' on the map. On the way to the Sutro Baths we stopped by one of the windmills too bad we weren't able to go inside!
Then it was time for the Sutro Baths. I've been here a number of times already, and I love it every time. The link I posted actually has old footage from 1897 of people using the slide. It's really incredible. Now all we have are the ruins to run around and play on. look! waves! wee!
Later on we stopped by this graffiti alley down off Valencia St. It's always changing, so I love to go there every couple of months to see if there's anything new. Now, for this next one, there's a pile of poo down in the corner, I didn't feel like peering at it to determine what made it, but I will say it was quite unpleasant Jeremy and I actually saw this one being made a couple months ago, the artist had stencils of each section and would match it up then spray it, then do the next section, etc...

The next morning we got up early and, with Glenn who joined us the night before, we went to Muir Woods for some hiking. I swear, every time I go there I hike the same trail, but I always think it's a new trail. Ah well. It was fairly easy, and even though it's named Ocean View, we didn't go to the top to where the supposed view probably is. Even still, it was really nice, and fun for the whole family! Uh oh! Char tried her legs at some good old fashioned tree climbing Since the hike didn't take as long as we planned for, we ended up taking our lunches down to the Chrissy Field area and eating while basking in some sunshine and the view of the bridge Later on we tried hitting up the North Beach Jazz Festival but we slightly disappointed in what we heard, although their get-ups were cool So we grabbed some thai at King Cha-Cha's and went back to the mission to see The Breakfast Club in Mission Dolores Park mmmmm...captain crunch and pixie stick sandwich! we had a decent view, but couldn't hear much of what was going on. But we did get to holler at the people to 'sit down in the front' as they stopped to lolly-gaggle and whatnot.

So it was a great weekend, I loved having Tom, Char and Glenn in town!

Oh...and before I forget, I started a BrewSKEEball league (that's right - brewskees and skeeball) with Jeremy, Heather, Perry, Reid and Trina (with Mari and Rose as alternate-alternates!). Technically we are only supposed to be 3 to a team with 3 alternates, but we are, uh, taking turns and it seems to work lovely. Last weekend Rose subbed in for us, which we were very grateful to have her on our team. Go Rose! Hit those hundos Jeremy! oops, I mean...
Pure concentration (serious face)

Plus, if that wasn't enough, we hit up my coworker Reid's band Innaway's show at 12 Galaxies which is a cool venue due to its all around balcony. We were pretty dead tired, but the fog machine and rocking and rolling kept us alive.

Oh, and Tom has his own blog up as well documenting his trip if you just can't get enough!

4 comments:

J-fella to C-Killa said...

Wow. That video on the baths is spectacular. I can't believe how many people go down that thing so quickly. real fun.

Anonymous said...

Wtf? How did I miss this blog? Sorry man, guess it's going around... ;)

You guys crammed a lot in! Glad you had fun. :) Oh, and it is awesome that you started your own BrewSKEEball team. Skeeball is the best.

xo
Raea

c-snizzle said...

J - That slide video is great! I'm glad you watched it, I was pretty amazed when I watched it. I wonder if the playback speed was messed up or something.

Hey Raea! Ya, it was super fun having everyone around. Skeeball rules :)

Akkire said...

dude, it WAS tom tom. I just wasn't sure if it was another Tom or not. wow, friend packed week-end. i can't WAIT to see you and meet Jeremy sooooooon.

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