April 21, 2007

  • I stayed off the bike today and instead went walking around with my friend Nick. We started off walking through the Haight where we saw the most incredible pair of shoes in the Goodwill window. Pity the poor woman who has to try to walk in these, but she'll look fabulous:

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    Then we headed into Golden Gate Park and walked around there for a while. Here's Nick watching a baseball game:

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    And me lounging in the Shakespeare Garden:

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    We headed over to the Music Concourse and Nick frolicked in the fountain Dolce Vita style:

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    Then we headed over to the Rose Garden where we were joined by Nathan, fresh from his haircut. The Glamour!

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    We headed over to Clement Street and stopped by Aroma Tea Shop which has the nicest guy running it and the most expensive tea I've ever seen. Here's Nick considering his choices:

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    We didn't have time to stick around for a cup of the $300 a pound stuff (I kid you not) so Nick managed to score a free tea set to go with his purchases. What a guy! On the street I encountered an outraged Pomeranian who was livid at his unpettedness. I took care of that:

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    Then we walked into Presdio Terrace. It's a private street, but the security guard let us in. What a beautiful neighborhood! Any of the houses there would make a lovely gift for me. Especially this one:

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    I was also finally able to get a good picture of the Synangogue on Arguello street. It's very difficult to photograph because of all the wires on Arguello but from Presidio Terrace - Magnificent!

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    We swlked down Washington through Presidio Heights over to Lyon. The gardens are very beautiful there and these tulips were especially pretty:

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    Then we walked down to the Lyon and Broadway to the Lyon Street streps with an unbelievable view of the Marina:

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    And then over to Fillmore Street to meet Chris Duplantis. There were beautiful flowers on Pacific Street today:

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    We met up with Chris and Sofi and ate lunch at La Mediteranee. Well, they did. The menu doesn't have any options for poor vegan Joseph but I wasn't very hungry anyway. After we went to the Marc Jacobs store and got our picture taken with the big Chicken.

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    It had started to rain so we hitched a ride home with Chris and waited for Jeff to get home from his meeting. When he did, Nick, Jeff and I went back to the park to the De Young Museum to go see the Vivienne Westwood exhibit. Amazing. The construction and detail of her clothes has to be seen to be believed. Jeff thought she was just crazy.

    Here I am lounging after we saw the show

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    And one of Jeff enjoying the art:

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    And here's an interesting piece of Maya art from their permanent collection:

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    I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my training ride won't get cancelled tomorrow because of rain. We're supposed to get quite a bit overnight and I'm hoping it will be done by morning.