Sunday, 2 February 2003

Oops

Oh gosh, it's been over a week since my last post. Where did all the time go? Last weekend our friend Chad came to visit from LA. He stayed until Tuesday night and we had lots of fun. Saturday was Game Day (boardgames) with 12 people where I got to meet new friendly gamer people which was cool. Sunday was the other Game Day (American Football). We watched to game but it was rather boring so we talked and drank beer most of the time, mostly missing the few good scenes in the game.

On Monday Chad, Michi and me drove to Monterey with Pooh, her sister and two of her sisters friends where we visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Aquarium is very cool but a little overpriced for my taste ($18 per person). I got a couple of cool pictures though which I will make available online soon. In the evening we had sushi (yummy, and it's so cheap here) and then went to a jazz club with a live band. Normally I'm not necessarily a jazz fan but played live in that club it was very good.

Tuesday was a great day so we met up with Pooh and her friends again and walked across the Golden Gate Bridge (all the way accross and all the way back). In the evening we went to a great Thai place that Pooh had found and later to an Irish pub and then to a Tiki bar where we had a bunch of good cocktails. Naturally we were all quite drunk after that (I was almost drunk enough to let people persuade me to dance). Later we went on top of Pooh's roof from where you have a gorgeous view over San Francisco and the GG Bridge. Chad left later that evening. It was great meeting Chad and I hope we'll get to spend some more time with him soon.

The rest of the week was spent by going to the Japanese Tea Garden (which is great, but unfortunately there was no water in most of the ponds because they were cleaning them) and Chinatown. Chinatown was nicely decorated for the Chinese new year. I especially liked Stockton St. where the Chinese people shop and you can find almost no tourists. It felt like a completely different world: all the signs were in Chinese, the sidewalk was crowded with Chinese people, and the stores sold funny vegetables and super fresh fish and seafood. I wanna go back there with somebody who speaks Chinese so they can tell me what all the signs mean and translate the menu in the restaurants for me.

  Posted by Edda at 02:22 CET