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This is better late than never, eh? I know it has been a week since I returned but last week was hellish and I am just catching up on things. So here we shall have an accounting of my vacation with the delightful and lovely

khylea who is so very organized that she kept notes on our activities that I am going to share with you and edit as I see fit...

First off...here is what we did, in casual note form...day by day.

You should note that these were taken by

khylea with small edits from me. Mine are in parentheses.

Sat aug 25

arrived 1030 am took a nap (waited around while she slept)

toured downtown berkeley and a bit of the U (showed her a bit of my daily routine and the Uni)

smokehouse for dinner (only the best! O.o a local dive but the burgers are AWESOME)

sun aug 26

bagels with salmon and cream cheese (soooo yummety...we loves this)

neighborhoods in sf

castro (gay capital USA and we met hilarious people there! the pet store and the bunny people!)

noe valley (toney neighborhood with victorians)

mission (latin neighnorhood with lots of good mexican food and second hand stores...did a drive through there)

pacific heights (drive through and this is where all the large mansions and historic apartment buildings are)

lombard street (the curvy street)

pizza at zachary’s (deep dish chicago style with california ingredients...mmm)

Monday aug 27

cold pizza for breakfast (we so classeh O.o)

alcatraz (really cool headset tour and you take a ferry out to it)

pier 39 (shopping and the cool part is the sea lions that are there)

fisherman’s wharf (touristy and shopping on the bay)

chinatown (best shopping ever...things are cheap and interesting)

dinner at some little hole in the wall chinese restaurant (mmmm..you can walk in ANYWHERE in chinatown and it is great)

Tuesday aug 28

chinese leftovers for breakfast (I got none)

Went up in the campinile at berkeley (there is an elevator thank god. very good view of the Uni and Berkeley and the bay)

lunch at jane’s café (café milano)- had a hot turkey sammich and side salad (Jane had the salad)

went to oddball and the avant card (my fave shops that are right across from my building)

BART and Muni to AT and T park for giants game (very fun and the park is bootiful)

Ate a sausage, fresh squeezed lemonade and cotton candy (I had sausage and pepsi)

Wed aug 29

breakfast at mcdonalds (egg mcmuffin for me and she had a pancake thing)

drove down to santa cruz (not too long 1.5 hours)

toured downtown (this was leveled in the quake of 89 and rebuilt completely)

back to the motel for sandwiches and chips for lunch (thrifty peoples that we are)

toured the boardwalk and the wharf (they did not have the deep fried twinkies! *wails*)

had a soft pretzel (me had soft serve ice cream)

walked in the surf (very nice)

dinner at an indian place (royal taj) had chicken curry (we both had chicken tikka masala)

thurs aug 30

muffins for breakfast (i selflessly gave her my muffin but had three cups of hotel coffee and got NO buzz)

drove to monterey

walked cannery row (of steinbeck fame)

monterey aquarium (saw otters, penguins and jelly fish---way cool)

lunch of sandwiches and chips (again---thrifty peoples that we are)

drove down to carmel-driving tour (perty, scenic...la la la)

driving tour along the coast to big sur (again...la la la beautiful)

back to carmel-went on the beach (nice break from the road)

ate at the monterey fish house (look like a divey fish place but it was a gourmet restaurant---she had the bouillibaise and I had the pork chops)

Friday aug 31st

slept late (cannot remember if I did)

went to oakland farmers market (on 9th street, got parking and the deals were great!)

had a snack there and bought some produce (peaches and grapes)

went to aaa to replace the cal map that got lost and the cal tour book

indian food and fish house leftovers for dinner

oakland a’s game-had a sausage, drink, and a popcorn (yep yep)

came out on the wrong side of the stadium and had a hike to find the car (not fun...)

sat Sept 1

drove to golden gate park (and brilliant me planned it so that we missed all the holiday traffic...we left early and got back early...*preen*)

visited the arboretum and the japanese tea garden (In all my years here I had not seen the arboretum...it had been under construction for a long time...very cool)

sandwiches and chips for lunchetto (saving money!)

went to the viewpoint for the golden gate bridge

was completely fogged in-no view (aww but I think it looks cool in the fog!)

stopped at good vibrations on the way back (:P)

rest at home (we needed some rest)

berkeley thai house for dinner-had shrimp rolls for appetizer, beef and broccoli and cashew chicken (and again...it was a football day and we managed to beat the crowds--*preen*)

stopped at the pervy porn store on the way up (and man was that weird...it fronts as a comic book store...tres bizarro)

sun sept 2

drove out to the point reyes lighthouse (long and windy drive *pets khylea*)

walked around there a bit (gorgeous scenery)

walked down to the lighthouse....a half mile walk to the head of the steps and then 300 STEEP steps down to it. ow. (steps were a killer, A KILLER)

came back to a beach on the bay side. Sunbathed and relaxed there for a bit

had fondue for dinner at "fondue fred’s" (yummety...and so so filling)

mon sept 3

bagels with cream cheese and salmon for breakfast (worth repeating)

went to see stardust movie (really good! I love fantasy movies Robert Deniro was hilarious)

california pizza kitchen for lunch-I had jambalaya (I had the chicken masala and had lots of leftovers)

jane got cupcakes at the bakery there (the spendy onezzz)

came back and made devilled eggs (really easy and so yummy)

drove up to the hills for a view of the city at sunset (a free view that is so beautiful from the Lawrence Hall of Science)

played a game of LOTR trivial pursuit-jane won. Thhbbbbttt (does the victory dance)

ate a couple poptarts (me too)

And then she left the next day...*balls eyes out*

So that was the travelogue of the vacation. I have some pictures to go with it which I will post behind a cut here in some kind of order (or so I hope).

*Not dial up friendly*

1. Noe Valley: