Ok, so apologies are in order. I’m so sorry that this post is so late; it’s been one of those weekends! I will start at the beginning, and I won’t leave anything out. Er… I’ll try not to! In fact, I’m even going to make this into two separate posts so it doesn’t get too overwhelming with the amount of pictures.
So let’s start where we left off: Friday night.
KC and I did make it to Fenton’s after dinner that night. We decided it was most economical to share a GIGANTIC dish of ice cream (3 HUGE scoops):
The flavors we chose were Butterfinger, Coffee Cookie Dream, and Chocolate Mint. YUM! I ate about half of the Butterfinger scoop, had a couple bites of the Coffee and I was spent. We didn’t quite finish…
We got the rest to go, and it’s still sitting in our freezer.
Ok, so Saturday. Saturday started like any other day. Cheerios with a banana for breakfast:
I topped this off with a double shot from the Nespresso over ice:
After the caffeine I was ready and raring to go. I grabbed KC and decided we should take a walk down Telegraph. We wandered through the shops, and ended up at La Calaca Loca where we each had a taco (since it was lunch time by this point):
I had the chicken taco, which was good, but the chicken was a little tough. Not as impressive as the last time I was there. Maybe it was just an off day.
After our small lunch, we wandered back down Telegraph. We spent some time at The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, which I affectionately call “The Junk Store.” KC bought some CDs for 25¢ (the selection at the store was quite interesting). After killing time there, we headed down the street to Remedy Coffee which opened fairly recently.
The cafe has a cool vibe, and my coffee and KC’s espresso were both good.
After (the extra) caffeine, it was time to meet up with Dan and Suzie, who were picking us up to take us to Golden Gate Park for April’s birthday BBQ.
It was a beautiful day at the park.
Unfortunately, amidst all the birthday fun I wasn’t able to take pictures of everything I ate. I had a turkey burger…
Plus some of the munchies that were out (veggies and dip, chips and salsa, and 2! chocolate chip cookies):
All in all, we had a great time playing kickball and celebrating April’s 20-something year. Nothing quite like a beautiful Saturday with good friends, right?
We gave the birthday girl a lift:
Once it started to get dark (and cold!) we headed to Durdy Nelly’s so the fun could continue. I took some pictures there, but it was so dark none of them really turned out! There was drinking (more done by others than myself) and dancing (even though I don’t think it’s really a dancing bar…?) Fun fun fun. After finishing up there, KC wanted to head to Trad’r Sam’s to meet up with a friend. There may have been a late-night stop at Taco Bell/KFC (to which I kept singing, “I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the Taco Bell. I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”) We were not at Pizza Hut; but anyway, if you don’t know that song, I feel bad for you. (No, I don’t.) By the way, I have this strange fascination with annoying repetitive songs… That Baskin Robbin’s commerical has been repeated endlessly in this apartment because I heard it and thought it was hilarious. (Ice cream and cake and cake…)
Back to the point: Trad’r Sam’s serves these ridiculously huge tropical drinks — I didn’t partake, seeing as I was driving, but KC ordered a scorpion, which apparently means “Make me a drink the size of my head. And make sure it’s pink.” KC didn’t finish his…bowl. Thank goodness — I think it would have ended badly for both of us if he had!
We finally decided to head home around midnight. Once we got back to Oakland, we were all beat! KC and I went straight to bed and Suzie crashed on the couch (after I made some pizza toast for everyone in an effort to lessen hangovers in the morning).
Sorry there was no update about this! I was in no shape to be blogging that late. I think if I had attempted to put something together it would have gone something like this: “I ate today. I’m tired. Goodnight.” Not exactly quality material…yes?