City Day!!

Tim and I went into the city today so that I could check out a bike store. After walking the dog, we rode to the BART station, secured our bikes in a bike locker, and then hopped on the train. We got off at the first stop in the city so that I could roam around the crafts fair and farmers market near the Ferry Building because we all know I love that so much. I found a nifty fused glass bead for a necklace. Then I found some nifty fused glass bead earrings. Then I found some flavored olive oils that looked pretty cool, and I got some basil flavored olive oil. I want to see if I can incorporate it into fresh pasta dough for a little extra flavor. Then we wandered down Market Street for a while and eventually veered off onto a road filled with the sort of people that make you suddenly realize that you're not in the best part of town. It smelled like pee, and I was ever thankful for Tim's companionship as we hurried down to the end of the block to take another road. We walked up and down lots of San Francisco hills, and after a while I realized that I should have looked at the map a little better. So out comes my new handy GPS and it straightens me out in a jiffy. We walked and walked and walked until an ice cream parlor caught my eye! I now had a dilemma. It is treason to walk by an ice cream parlor where they make the ice cream in house and not get any, but it is also a terrible thing to eat ice cream before lunch. I decided that not getting ice cream was the bigger act of treason. Since Timmy didn't want any, I got chocolate orange chip ice cream because Timmy is silly and doesn't like orange flavored chocolate. It was delicious! Note to self: Swensen's Ice Cream at the intersection of Hyde and Union. I still need to try Fenton's Creamery in Oakland, which is the ice cream parlor that the little boy and old man get ice cream from at the end of UP. Anyway, my ice cream obsession aside, we kept walking and eventually arrived at City Cycles, where I asked about titanium bikes, steel bikes, and all other sorts of bike questions. The people in the store were very nice, and I got a bit of good information to think about. After a while, we wandered back to the BART station and stopped for some thai food on the way. When we biked up the hill home, I decided that I wanted to take Navi to Cesar Chavez park and fly a kite again! So as soon as we had gotten home, we were rushing out the door trying to beat the sunset to pick up Pam and go fly the kite! We arrived at the park with Pam in tow right before sunset and I was very excited to see 3 or 4 kites flying in the park. We grabbed the kite, wandered over to the water and...the wind just completely died. We tried to launch the kite anyway hoping that there would be more wind higher up above us, but after Pam and I tried several times to throw the kite while Tim ran down a path with the kite strings...we admitted forfeit. Pam invited us over to her house to have chicken schnitzel and spatzle, so we all trooped back to 805. Tim went to the back of the house to hang out with Vince and some of the visiting prospective students while Pam and I stayed in the front of the house cooking dinner while the dog cleaned the floor of any messes we made. Dinner was really yummy. After dinner, it was 9 pm so we went home, packed up for snowboarding and fell asleep.