The Eating Weekend

Not to say, there's no food where i live,  there's just not the food in the same quality and quantity here in the mountains as in the bay area.  yes, bay area folks...you are spoiled ROTTEN!  with that said...this is an eating weekend with lots of walking around.

hitting up the local eats in the inner sunset, heading out to the ferry building farmers market (which i have now dubbed the eating market), we had a good time walking around downtown and golden gate park.  of course we had to to the california academy of sciences to check out the denizens and the newish exhibit....all about earthquakes and australia and madagascar.  of course, when one brings up the land down under, images of kangaroos pop up.  unfortunately, they didn't have any of those on display, they did have ostrich chicks.  i guess there really no way of escaping.  the roos may just hop away and become the new deer of the bay area.

sunday = vino day....the mission of the day....pick up wine we bought last year...and to get some more wine for next year.  dry creek valley is my favorite place in the area.  a must go place for some peace, eating, and lounging.  so, with things to do and getaways this close...i better not catch any of you bay area folks complaining that there is no food and nothing to do....get out and find it!

ps...sara!!!  you better come with us next year!!!!

the chicks...

lemondrop....he's a big arse yellow snake that lives in an enclosure in the gift shop

preston's lilac trees!

lunch

yum!

the Weekend Getaway

yes, i'm bored, so i'll reminisce on the bay area weekend a couple of weekends ago....


starting by this....

Dry creek Vinyeard

Sara and Kaichi at Ferrari-Curano

then there were the gardens at the Ferrari-Curano Vineyard (which in my opinion was the best part of the place.

the nez of a bronzed pig on the grounds

bridges in the garden

then ....Preston Vineyard and Organic Farm.....by far i think my favorite place in the all of Dry Creek Valley....too bad i didn't take more photos....blah!

preston vineyards

Then Sunday...a rare beautiful weekend in SF....

along the embarcadero on a beautiful sunday morning....

I miss the bay area.....

in the fall light

in the fall light
Originally uploaded by vypeng

another trip to the bay area. this one was a little spontaneous, given that i really didn't decide that i was going to go down until friday afternoon. Ed headed for Santa Cruz to surf/hang/say good-bye to a friend who is moving away from the coast and headed to Madison for a teaching position. i got to hang with Kaichi. :D well, actually i sort of just showed up. good thing she was pretty much for anything (ie. no plans made) that weekend. i didn't really have any plans expect to see if she wanted to go to wine country on sunday. Good thing the weather was excellent in the bay area. Saturday was spent wandering around SF, first to the ferry building for the farmers market, then to the park, and then to beach. an excellent dinner was made with some of the booty that we got from the market.

sunday, was a day of many things to do. First, i had a greasy breakfast with big J and cynthia. it was good seeing them and hanging out, even if it's for a short while. :D then, the vino day began. jakob (kaichi's friend of a friend who is now our friend) joined us cuz he's never been. on his road trip, he never got a chance to go up to wine country. so, now was his chance.


booze, this way

he was definitely stoked on getting some good wines (lives in china = no good wines). i was stoked on getting awesome wine from one of my favorite regions of wine country.


winter vines

overall, i had a surprisingly fun weekend. good to see old friends and meet new ones. :D