God help me. Our precious Vyl turned only 29 on Tuesday. Ryan said a while ago that he’ll have to kill himself when she turns 30 so I guess he still has one more year to live. We celebrated on Tuesday night with some Italian food and wine. The birthday girl also received 3 bouquets of flowers that night. Aw…
Here are the photos.
It was a beautiful day in SF and a perfect day for some beach volleyball.
We watched Olympic gold medalists, including Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, play in our backyard today at the SF stop of the AVP Tour.
It was a lot of fun watching the matches between the top competitors in the sport while sipping Bud Light in the stands.
Bang was inspired and got to test out his mad hops. It’s too bad that he’s 15 years older and more injury prone. With all his hopping around this afternoon, he hobbled home with a slight limp. Good luck with him, Vyl.
Last night we went to The Independent to see our old friend Joel, “The Rockstar”, play in his band. Everest was one of the few bands featured that night and it was fun to watch him rock out. I also got to experiment with my D300’s ISO 2000. I think they came out quite well without the amount graininess that I expected. It was so awesome to be able to take these photos without flash.
Anyway, it was great to be able to watch them in a more intimate venue. He’s going to be playing at the Outside Lands Festival this weekend in GG Park and it’s too bad that I’ll be missing it. We should be on a plane just about the same time they’ll be on stage playing for thousands of people on the lawn.
By the way, I think my poor old ears aren’t very tolerant of loud music anymore.
How sad.
Marie and the rest of the Sumino clan came up to SF for the weekend. It was so fun to spend the day with them and play with Cole just like I used to before moving up here. Marie and Kenji look great and seem to travel rather well with two boys.
Brandon is growing quickly and he’s such an easy-going baby who smiles every time I call him name. I took them to the park across from my house, gave them the 2-second tour of our condo, and we had Dim Sum in the afternoon.
Cole is such a big boy now at 3 years of age and I couldn’t get over home much he talks now. I guess I’m still used to the little 18-month-old that ran around pulling the DVDs off my shelves. He still loves Koa and Koa actually remembered him. Once they got back to our house, Cole chased him around and fed him carrots. I guess a friendship between a boy and dog really does endure the test of time.
Here are a few photos from our afternoon.
On Saturday morning, Jes and I took Koa to Chrissy Field for a Shiba Meet-up. We were supposed to meet a bunch of other Shiba owners and their dogs for a day of romping on the beach but we got there a little late and totally missed them. We walked and walked and couldn’t find them. So, Koa ended up with a really long walk and about 20 minutes of running off-leash on the grassy field and beach. The morning didn’t go quite as planned. Too bad, Dog.
On Saturday evening, Jes and I went out for a nice dinner at Luce. It’s a relatively new restaurant that we found on Open Table and thought we’d give it a try. Have completely no expectations, we were pleasantly surprised with the awesome 5-course tasting dinner that we had. Apparently when you order the 5-course menu, you end up with 11 actual items to try. We had an amuse-bouche, all 5 courses, and a sprinkling of intermezzos, palate cleansers, and even a pre-dessert. What the heck?! It ended up being a 3-hour dinner and we left satisfied and buzzed.
One of my favorites was the foie gras on top of toasted brioche drizzled with a duck consumme. Yum.
Another was the pre-dessert consisting of melon granita, ricotta cream (tasted like coconut milk), and basil oil. Sounds gross but it was sooooo tasty. I seriously felt like I was a judge on Top Chef with surprise after surprise. One of the funniest parts of dinner was the fact that we were puzzled by about 3/4 of the menu items. That’s when Google came in handy. On my crackberry, I looked up things like “escabeche”, “purslane”, “branzini”, and “pintade”. We were so ghetto but it was very educational.
Jes and I went to The Festival of Sail today. The actual village was total crap and it didn’t feel like much of a festival but we got to board a few tall ships, which were pretty interesting.
One of my favorites was the pirate ship. It was built for The Pirates of the Caribbean movie but there’s an actual crew that sails it around the world. Not only did we walk on the deck but they let us explore down below where the galley and sleeping quarters are. Apparently you can take a ride from SF to Hawaii on this ship. Ugh…that makes me sick just thinking of it. I would make a pretty lousy pirate. Yar. Here are some photos.
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