Good times

Hi all,

My lovely sister-in-law and nephew are here visiting. They came in on Saturday and we hung out a bit in the evening. Then yesterday we pretty much just hung out all day playing video games, then in the evening we went to Roxy for dinner. Today was much more eventful. We got up and hate breakfast, then hit the road and drove to Berkeley. Until we got there, we hadn't decided whether to just spend time in Berkeley, going to Telegraph, eating lunch at Slurp, going to Amoeba records, and then maybe seeing the 5th street shops or Dark Carnival books. Those are most of our favorite things to do there. But when we actually got into town, we decided just to BART into San Francisco itself.

Zadie was a riot on the train. She looked around, smiling, and said "How are you today, people?" She's bound to be like a game show host or something. We overshot our stop and had to walk through a seriously sketchy area, but it was less than a mile to Union Square. We went to Kariktur, the Paul Frank store, H&M, Gap Body, Rasputin Records, North Face, Lacoste, and then to King of Thai for lunch. They screwed up my order, but fixed it, and the waitresses loved Zadie.

After we walked around a bit, we went into the Westfield something (it used to be the "San Francisco Shopping Center"). We went into Sanrio, where Zadie got a lipstick and I seriously considered buying a Badtz-Maru bass. Then we went into several other shops, including a stationery store I really liked. Zadie had some Thai coffee at the restaurant, and so she had a complete and total meltdown at the mall. She turned into the Tasmanian Devil, then she just lay on the floor. Auntie ended up cradling her all the way to BART.

All in all it was a lovely day, and we got to use the carpool lane on the way home, whee! Now it's pizza and more video games.