San Francisco Does Not Suck!
This past weekend, a friend of mine from UW, Michael, joined my roommate, Bhavya, and I in San Francisco. Saturday, we took a bus ride and a hike up to Twin Peaks and then ended up going to Coit Tower, both times to take in the sights. We ended our day with dinner in North Beach at a restaurant called Volare that I had been to last fall with a bunch of people when I was in the Bay Area, picked up some hipster attire at a store nearby, and had some pastries from an Italian bakery.
Ike's Place sandwiches were the meal of the day on Sunday (delicious!), devoured while hanging around in Mission Dolores Park. Following that, we made our way to a thrift shop and then to Mission Minis for some cupcakes!
Pictures of our adventure and my conversion to a hipster are after the break; even a video!
Two busy, but fun two weeks (and TWiT!)
I've been less involved with my own personal projects and Unbounds work these past few weeks since they've been pretty eventful with other stuff.
Two weekends ago, I was in LA with my roommate Craig, my work colleague Mitchell, and his buddy Mike. Basically spent the weekend doing the usual touristy stuff. We visited LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Santa Monica. We did a lot of stuff in such a small amount of time, but it was definitely a lot of fun and totally worth it.
The week after this, I received some Tropo swag for my last blog post - thanks guys!
Last weekend, my parents were in town. They did the touristy stuff on their own for a few days while I worked. We drove around the Bay together, took some great shots, and even went up and then down Lombard Street (which was both terrifying and a lot of fun at the same time).
This weekend, in particular, was pretty busy. Friday night, I was lucky enough to get a ticket to watch Harry Potter 7: Part 1. It was an awesome movie and I can't wait for Part 2! Yesterday, I took a drive down to the Gilroy Premium Outlets for some shopping and then met up with my buddy Adam and his roommate Tarek for an awesome Korean BBQ dinner at Ohgane (highly recommended!). Today, I was an audience member on episode 275 of TWiT. Joey Robert and I booked seats for this show back in September not knowing who would be on, so we were pretty excited when we found out Kevin Rose was going to be a guest on the show. Leo Laporte and the gang were awesome, and his staff were very hospitable. I thought it was pretty cool to be introduced on the show and then take pictures with both Leo and Kevin. Thanks guys for an amazing time!
I'll probably be coding a bit more this week and next, up until my trip to Las Vegas, so I'll probably come up with something a bit more interesting to blog about by then. In any case, check out some pictures of these past two weeks after the break!
A Day of Touring, Making Dinner & Dessert, and Smoking from a Hookah
Yesterday, I made my way into San Francisco to meet up with a bunch of Waterloo co-ops from Los Angeles who were in town for the weekend. We spent the day doing some touristy stuff: visited Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Park, the Castro district, the Painted Ladies, etc. It was pretty fun, but the walking tired us all out by the end of it and then we went our own ways.
The Painted Ladies & I
Later on in the day, I made my way to my buddy Adam's place without really knowing what we were going to do. When I got there, we were all pretty hungry and decided that it would be best to go grab some food. We passed by a grocery store around the corner and ended up making some really tasty tacos for dinner and struggled (a bit) to make a strawberry cheesecake for dessert. We were a little worried with this recipe when it called for mixing warm condensed milk with the cream cheese (since it would melt), but overall I think it came out pretty well when it was finally done.