No Rice-a-Roni!

Playing catch up again! Hi guys! I tried sending this from SF the other day, with no luck. Sigh... computer glitches! Looking forward to putting up some more stuff from the trip soon, including a fab dinner party, a day in Santa Cruz, and dinner at Tony's in North Beach! :)

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Aug 19,

I had some seriously good karma the other day. I don't know what was up, but the craziest things happened on the way to San Francisco! I was boarding the plane, and I had paid a little extra for more legroom and a window seat for my non-stop flight on JetBlue, when all of a sudden there were two toddlers and a dad in my row, and a toddler in my extra legroom window seat. The Dad explained that I could have my seat, but I'd be babysitting for the next 7 hours, or I could have his seat... A CENTER seat, no extra legroom. GRRRRRRR. I mean, who does that?? and, why spend the extra money on legroom for toddlers??? Not wanting to be a jerk, I took his stupid center seat, which also had a broken tv screen... Awesome.

I got off the plane in SF, used the restroom, and was walking towards baggage claim when a woman ran after me with my purse!! I had left it in the restroom! Was it a reward for giving up my window seat?

A little while later I was on BART heading downtown, and the woman who had been seated next to me had just exited the train when I saw her purse on the seat next to me! I sprang up and tossed it to her just as the doors were closing! She called out, "Oh my goodness, that would have been a disaster!!"

Crazy turn of events, right?

So, I'm in SF, and the good karma is still with me. I'm having a great time visiting friends and my sister, and also getting a good amount of practicing done while my sister's at work. It's great wandering around her neighborhood on Union Street in Cow Hollow. Up her hill... and down.

Yesterday I ventured over to Oakland on MUNI and BART to have lunch with my old Oberlin roommate in Oakland!

We had sandwiches at Farley's East, a fab little cafe at Broadway and Grand. It was so great to sit outside and catch up! She had a huge veggie sandwich with yummy cheese and avocado, and I tried the Sandwich du Jour, a BLT with basil aioli pressed as a panini. Both were served with lemony salads.

We had a great time roaming around for a while afterwards, too. It was pretty.

I headed back to SF and wandered around Union Sq for a bit. I'll admit it... I bought a pair of "jeggings". Yup. Leggings that look like jeans. $15 at Old Navy, and I'm on vacay- why not?

I practiced for a couple hours until my sister got home tired and hungry. We decided on Pho delivery for dinner from Aux delices in her neighborhood, Cow Hollow. We both ordered the regular Chicken Pho, and a side order of dumplings.

Vietnamese dumplings are so different from what we expected... They were wrapped something like a huge clear rice noodle. Pretty tasty but weird-lookin'!

Nothing is more comforting than a huge bowl of chicken soup, though...

We ate in bed and caught up on Real Housewives of D.C. It's finally starting to pick up, too! More drama, please! :)