Saturday, November 26, 2005
Breakfast with Nate and Chris: yogurt, banana, cereal, raisins. We drove to Golden Gate Park and stopped at the windmill and Queen Wilhelmina's garden to take some photos. We had lunch at Beach Chalet (415-386-8439, 1000 Great Highway). Nate had the spinach salad. Chris had a burger and fries. I had a crab louis salad. Fries for the table. Stopped at the beach so that Chris could take a picture of a shopping cart that had errantly ended up in the middle of the sand. Drove through Golden Gate Park to Noe Valley where we walked around the shops on 24th. Drove to Hayes Valley to see the new Octavia development and the GLBT Center. Drove through the Haight to the Castro. Stopped in at Peet's for coffee. Ran in to Tony Q at Bearbucks, chatted with him for a few minutes. Drove to Berkeley and showed Chris and Nate the 4th Street shopping district. Visited Jen C at her place in El Cerrito. I haven't seen her in years, and we hadn't been in touch lately. She moved to the Bay Area about 3 years ago and is now working as a city planner for the city of El Cerrito. She took us to dinner at Picante, a popular Mexican restaurant. We chatted for hours catching up on each others' lives.