San Francisco: Day Two

[mik3cap]

A short day, seeing as how I slept for about eleven hours. I really needed the sleep!

I farted around the apartment for a while, got dressed, then walked around Alamo Square taking pictures of the "painted ladies" (the Victorian houses around the neighborhood that are painted in traditional bright colors). Next took the train back over to Berkeley and had dinner with Rhette at the (in)famous wicked hippie-ass vegan Cafe Gratitude. I like the food there, but it's way too easy to spend far too much money. I split a spring roll, and had miso soup and what was basically a "bibim bap" bowl of Asian greens and veggies. We proceeded back to my apartment to enjoy baked greats from Citizen Cake - sadly, they only had two varieties of cupcake by the time I got there... serves me right for not going first thing in the day!

Today Rhette and I are going to Napa to put booze and foods in our mouths, and we've got dinner reservations at the Culinary Institute of America's restaurant. HOW AWESOME IS THAT. The answer you're looking for is "very".

The rest of the week is pretty much planned out - Sunday is beer and board games with George & co., and the WWDC takes up most of my days. I'll have a half day on Friday and all day Saturday to do stuff, and I think I want to hit the cartoon museum and the Asian art museum before leaving; Asian art has a brand new exhibit opening Friday called "Lords of the Samurai" so I definitely want to check that out.

Comments

[methanopyrus.livejournal.com]

You said Cafe Gratitude can get too expensive, and you live in NY!
See, this is a problem I found in the bay area, when I moved there from NYC. I was used to the really interesting food still being in my college student price range in NYC, and I could choose dinner or lunch in my price range, but in the Bay Area, I could not figure out cheap and interesting dinner out unless I wanted a burrito.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

New York has simply got nothing on San Francisco. There are way, way more weirdos here!! And the homeless people are SO AGGRO. I've also lived in New York for nearly three years... and never once did I see human feces on the street, but tonight I saw it at the bus stop on McAllister at the Civic Center.

[methanopyrus.livejournal.com]

oh god. yeah, the crapping in the downtown streets is really a shock. new york has done more, as far as I can tell, to house homeless. the homeless in SF get free money and health care, but thousands can't get housing, add that to the fact that methamphetamine is extremely popular on this coast.