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Baseball games are fun.

Giants Stadium

Jes and I got some cheap Giants tickets at Costco a couple weeks ago and redeemed them on Friday.  For $24, we got two seats in the bleachers just in front of the Coke bottle slide and sat among the crazy Giants fans.  It was one of those rare SF evenings where the weather was cooperating with blue skie, temps in the high 60’s, and no fog rolling in mid-way through the game.

Sailboats

There were lots of sailboats out on the water practicing their maneuvers and we got a good view of them from the stadium above.

Popcorn

Coors Light

"Juice" box

We ate a Giants dog, nachos with a huge pile of jalepenos, popcorn (with lotsa butter), Coors Light, and white wine.  I also managed to get my “juice boxes” through the front gate, which saved us about 14 extra bucks and allowed us to start the buzz early. They had a bunch of “gourmet” food like clam chowder in a bread bowl, crab legs, tacos from Tres Agaves, Gordon Biersch garlic fries but we just wanted standard baseball food.  Where else am I going get them?!

Randy Johnson

The Giants won 6-4 versus the Texas Rangers and I watched my new favorite player, Travis Ishikawa, hit a home run.  Wooo!!  Randy “The Big Unit” Johnson was also the pitcher that night so I got to see him do his thang up on the mound.  We also sat near this big group of nerds, who were in town for the NASCAR event in Napa this weekend.  They were kind enough to explain what was going on in the game since Jes couldn’t have cared less for the game.  It was all about the Coors Light for him.

Jes and Nina

Anyhoo, it was a fun Friday evening for us and I have a new appreciation for baseball and the Giants.  They’re actually doing well this season so let’s hope they keep it up to help boost the value of my home.  Yay!!!

Here are photos from the game.

WOOOOOOO!!!

Lakers flag

I could practically taste the win this afternoon but I was also afraid that I’d have to return to Pete’s on Tuesday.  We’ve spent the last 4 games at Pete’s drinking pitchers of Coors light and we were in need of a major detox.  At 3 pm, Susie, Victor, and Tinou snagged 4 tables in our usual spot and I showed up around 3:30 and helped make our group look a little bigger.  Tip-off wasn’t until 5:00 so we were a little nervous about the post-Giants game crowd giving us the stink-eye.  Eventually the rest of our group arrived and we were large enough to fill up the space.  There was also a super obnoxious guy across the way yelling “GO FLORIDA!”.  We kept our cool through the first quarter and once we tied up the score, he suddenly shut up.  Ah…peace and quiet.

Back to Back

It was great having everyone together for the game and Jimmy even wore his “Back to Back” shirt.

Number One

I also had my 2000 NBA Champions shirt that I believe has brought us luck.

It’s hard being a Laker fan in SF but it makes every win that much more satisfying.  By the 4th quarter, we had a commanding lead and won the NBA Championship.  We busted out the foam fingers and Lakers flag and had celebratory Kamikaze shots all around as the Bay Area/Anti-Lakers crowd headed out of the bar.

Group Shots

Great job, Lakers.  6th Man was behind you all the way.

Here are the photos from this eventful evening.

Beautiful Weekend

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It finally felt like spring this weekend with blue skies and sunshine everywhere you looked.  Saturday was especially nice so we took Koa to Fort Funston for a romp in the sand.  Before we left, the tide report said that the water would be too high to play on the beach.

explorin'

Fort Funston

So we did a little exploring up top through the tunnels and trees before heading down to the water.  On our first try, we got down halfway and then Koa darted back up the hill as if he saw the water and freaked out.

koa and nina

We finally managed to get down to the water and it was gorgeous!  The water level was also low enough so we got to walk all the way down to the other side.  Koa had a great time and boy was he tired on our way home.

bathtime

Unfortunately for me, he wasn’t tired enough to make bathtime easy for me.  He screamed and scratched until the very end.  I cleaned most of him but his head didn’t really a washin’.  By then I had given up.  I guess baths will never get any easier for us.

Girlie Saturday Fun

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On Saturday morning, I had my very first facial.  It was relaxing, a little hurty, but oh so nice.  She said I was really dehydrated and all I could think was “Duh”.  I knew it all along but it was funny to hear someone tell me that.

Anyhoo…with my newly hydrated and glowing face, I then headed out to the mall to meet up with Michelle who was enjoying a Jack-free day.  We had Thai noodles for lunch and then went to see the movie “UP“.  We sucked it up and went to see it in 3D and it turned out to be a lot of fun.  Their technology must have really improved because the glasses were comfortable and I didn’t get dizzy.  The movie itself was so cute and I managed to shed a few tears along the way.  Pixar and Disney always do a good job with developing really rich characters and bringing in just the right amount of emotion to make it a true adventure.

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Michelle and I were saying that Russell (the boy in the movie) looked like a younger Tob.  However, it pretty much stopped at looks because he was definitely more outgoing and scrappier than Tob.  Dug, the dog, was probably my favorite character.  I loved how they captured the simplicity of a dog’s personality and undying devotion to his master.  He even did the whole rub-the-head-under-the-hand-for-a-head-scratch thing that Koa does all the time.  Anyone still need to see it?  I would go again.

We be clubbin’!

girls

That’s Billy with the bunny ears in the back.

On Friday night, there was a moment when I had to pause and do a double-take.  Jes asked me what he was supposed to wear and I replied, “Club Attire”.   Whu?!  We were actually going out to a club?!  Yes yes…crazy, right?!  Well, it’s true.  Jes and I went out to Element Lounge for drinks and dancing with Ishya, Billy, Ranee, and Jamie.  We were put on the guest list and got to dodge the $10 cover.  Phew!

cowboy

Anyway, it was fun to see the cousins again and I had no idea that Billy had so many dance moves.  I especially like the cowboy dance.  Here’s a photo of it in action.

Thanks to Ranee for planning it.  It was just what I needed after a long and crazy work week.  We left the club around 1:00 am when they started playing Whitney Houston and Jes and I even did the whole “I’m buzzed and need to eat something greasy” thing afterward.  We went to Tommy’s Joynt down the street for a pastrami sammich and potato salad.  Good times.

Butterflies!

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Jes and I went to the CA Academy of Sciences this morning and we were pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn’t as crowded as first time we visited last fall.  We missed the rainforest last time so that was our first stop.  It’s a huge dome that has a special temperature and humidity for all the plants and butterflies.  There were all kinds of butterflies and lots of them!

dome

The dome has natural light that comes in from the circular windows on the rooftop above and a huge pond down below filled with gigantic arowanas and catfish.  At the very bottom there’s a tube that allows you to hang out below the water and the dome, which give you a really cool point of view.

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It was a fun way to spend a Sunday morning and we were home by 1:00 pm to enjoy the rest of the day.