Recent activities

Whew! I've been so busy these past few weeks. In case you hadn't heard, I got a job in DC. Yay, except that it's only part time. Boo. BUT, I've got another lady who wants to find clients for me so cross your fingers that she gets some and gives them to me!! Now, back to what else I've been doing.

Let's see, when I last posted I had just been to Pride. So fun! That next week was super relaxing. I spent it getting things in order for my job, looking up apartments, looking into changing my license, etc. On Thursday, LP came home early from work! I love when he does that. It's always a surprise and he'll just text and say "I'm ready to hang out with, I'm leaving work." Since I'm never doing anything, it's always a wonderful surprise and it always means we'll do something. That Thursday we went to Dolores Park. It's a cute little park that's super close to the house and there are always interesting people. kids, dogs, gays, punks, and bikers there. We are kind of into people watching/listening, so it's a great park to do that in! We grabbed a few beers and headed to the park to lay in the grass and let the sun warm us. I tried to take LP's picture:


It went about like that. He hates when I take his picture (but I secretly do it anyway!). So the next day was Friday and we decided to do something fun to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. What did we decide on? The ZOO!!!!

This Decemeber, the San Francisco Zoo welcomed it's first baby gorilla born there in 10 years! Happy Birthday Baby Gorilla! I was really excited to see it, but LP said it might be bigger than I thought. I was little sad, until we went to the gorilla area!

That little black thing in the middle is the baby! He was so cute! And we got really lucky because his mama had him riding on her back for a while and then put him down so he could explore his home. This meant that we got to see him pick up grass and roll on the ground and see the other gorillas come over and interact with him. It was seriously adorable.

We left the zoo and went on a serach for a margarita. There is a HUGE mexican food industry here and we even live right next to The Mission, which is all hispanic people, but we had yet to find a good marg. Well, we accomplished our mission. In The Mission. Ok, actually it was on Valencia, but this mexican restaurant had some GOOD margs!

The next day (Saturday) we decided to head out the Filmore Jazz Festival. It's pretty famous and was supposed to be fun (and it was free!) so that's what we planned. As soon as we got there, we grabbed a beer and walked a bit. That is where I stumbled onto the coolest, sporadic, electric slide dance off set to Michael Jackson music. That's right. Bunch of people, on a sidewalk, doing the electric slide, listening to Michael Jackson.

This was also next to the booth that was selling a variety of MJ t-shirts, posters and memorabilia. Just in case you wanted it. So, we walked around the festival all day and that night went to LP's roof deck and watched fireworks. It was great and relaxing, which is what we'd been wanting to do.

I've been walking past this place almost every day that's next to the gym I go to and it has the most intriguing sign:
This Tuesday, LP and I decided to check it out. I love oysters and pints and we'd been wanting fish so we tried it. Yum. And cheap. We had a dozen oysters, a big old artichoke with shrimp and crab and 2 beers. It was good food, LP didn't have to cook it and I didn't have to clean up (that's our arrangement- he cooks, I clean) so it was a win-win for everyone!