How the weekend went...

Thursday:
Basically on Thursday I hung out in Palo Alto all day. I went to this mall near Stanford which reminded me of the mall in San Diego in that it was all outside and the sun was outstanding. Very nice.

Walking around Downtown Palo Alto was also outstanding. I found that I really enjoyed the entire area. If I were to live in the Valley, that is probably where I'd live. University Avenue reminds me of Georgetown or Park Ave in Rochester. It just seemed like a very pedestrian friendly place to be. The little shops were great and the only major/familiar/non-local companies were Walgreens and Borders.

After I picked up Kathy from the Airport we had dinner with Cory at The Creamery. We tried to meet up with Sonya but it didn't happen.

Friday we went out in San Francisco. We got breakfast at a little deli on Mission Ave. Walked around South Beach for awhile, got a twitter shirt, checked out AT&T park, and had lunch in South Park. Later we went over the Golden Gate and checked out Muir Woods (Redwoods are awesome) and went to Mt Tamalpais (best view EVER).

Saturday we went to Scharffen Berger lol and had a tour of some high end chocolates and their factory. We went to the UC Berkeley Arboretum which was sweet, had Lunch at Jupiter per recommendation by Illian from Bulgaria/Google/first-trip.

Back to SF to see the Coit Tower, Crissy Fields, and a walk across the Golden Gate, Golden Gate Park and an outstanding dinner with a view at the Cliff House (highly recommended).

Sunday we went to Golden Gate park again and saw the Haight Festival which was sweet, another arboretum and a whole bunch of Gorilla's doing the Thriller dance, no joke. Hilarious.

Wrapped up with a trip to Half Moon Bay which was outstanding and another trip to Stanford to see the campus.

It sucks to be [on the way] back. :(