I don't think I left anything in San Francisco
Trip report!
So. Friday I got up at ungodly:30 o'clock and flew to Oakland. Rented a car, drove to Addendum. Detour to see tiny, tiny foster kittens, then out to dinner with (let's see if I can get all this) madmanatw, leora, darch, eirias, beth_leonard, jon_leonard, Vynce, and Ruth. Awesome to see so many friends. I then attempted to continue being social until I was more or less completely incoherent from having been up for 23 hours.
Next day I was introduced to Race For The Galaxy, a nifty board/card game, by Madman, Darch, and Darch's friend, all of whom I soundly beat. It was fun! :) Then drove down to Palo Alto, where my brother was graduating from a Master's program at Stanford, to meet him and my parents. We went to a reception at the swank President's house (which totally has clover in the exquisitely manicured lawn, I noted) and then to a delicious Swiss fondue restaurant where we were joined by several other aunts/uncles/cousins/etc. Also fun! Oh, and on the way there we stopped for an unusually clear view of the bay, the Golden Gate, and Alcatraz, since the weather was inexplicably sunny.
Sunday was the actual Stanford graduation ceremonies which took up most of the day. Hung out with Tom's roommates a bit, then went out to a nice Italian place where I got some purse-shaped pasta stuffed with mascarpone and pear in a cream sauce that was quite yummy. Then I caught a red-eye back through Atlanta (managed to sleep some, though of course not very comfortably) and went right in to work this morning (eh, it was closer than home). *Yawn*
So. Friday I got up at ungodly:30 o'clock and flew to Oakland. Rented a car, drove to Addendum. Detour to see tiny, tiny foster kittens, then out to dinner with (let's see if I can get all this) madmanatw, leora, darch, eirias, beth_leonard, jon_leonard, Vynce, and Ruth. Awesome to see so many friends. I then attempted to continue being social until I was more or less completely incoherent from having been up for 23 hours.
Next day I was introduced to Race For The Galaxy, a nifty board/card game, by Madman, Darch, and Darch's friend, all of whom I soundly beat. It was fun! :) Then drove down to Palo Alto, where my brother was graduating from a Master's program at Stanford, to meet him and my parents. We went to a reception at the swank President's house (which totally has clover in the exquisitely manicured lawn, I noted) and then to a delicious Swiss fondue restaurant where we were joined by several other aunts/uncles/cousins/etc. Also fun! Oh, and on the way there we stopped for an unusually clear view of the bay, the Golden Gate, and Alcatraz, since the weather was inexplicably sunny.
Sunday was the actual Stanford graduation ceremonies which took up most of the day. Hung out with Tom's roommates a bit, then went out to a nice Italian place where I got some purse-shaped pasta stuffed with mascarpone and pear in a cream sauce that was quite yummy. Then I caught a red-eye back through Atlanta (managed to sleep some, though of course not very comfortably) and went right in to work this morning (eh, it was closer than home). *Yawn*