Week 27.5: April 2

The day after the PIC flew home, I went to Forest Hills to perform for an old people music club. It was at a very fancy house with a $30 000 fireplace (really? That seems insane, maybe I remembered it wrong....) which was giving off a very strong smoke smell and prompted the host to call the fire department, who showed up in the middle of Intro and Rondo Capriccioso and clumped through the ranks of old fancy rich people and proclaimed that nothing was wrong with the fireplace (but the host poured a lot of water on it just to be sure). This is the most interesting thing I have ever had happen at such a gig.

After the socializing/eating/gushing from old-person music connoisseurs, I set off to explore Golden Gate Heights. It's really a lot of fun up there. The streets are twisty and they double back on themselves and there are hidden staircases all over the place. Not a single sidewalk block is flat. I saw quite a few kids around. Imagine growing up in a neighbourhood like that. You twine round and round and every so often you crest a hill and poke your head above the tangle and then you can see the whole world.

That green strip on the left is Golden Gate Park

I CAN SEE THE WHOLE WORLD!!! (GGB in the distance)

Twin Peaks straight ahead

I found seven caches out of the eight I hunted, hauled myself ALL OVER the whole neighbourhood, and when it started to get dark and I wanted to come home, realized I didn't know how to get back to the train station. After bumbling around for a while and coming to terms with the fact that I was legitimately lost, I saw the no.6 bus drive by, and remembered that I've seen the 6 passing in front of our house, so if I got on, it would take me there. So get on I did, and get home safe I did.

Path to the cache

Endless ocean

This rock is made from fossilized silica shells. It was formed on the Pacific Ocean floor and moved here via continental drift.

I liked this alcove very much

House for sale, anyone want to move here?

FAIL (saw this out the bus window)

Went to the edge of GGP to get a multi I solved mostly via armchair (hehe). On my way I went past the oldest running bike shop in SF.

HA!

On Saturday I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and the Presidio. The lagoon is really a beautiful place. If you're ever in SF but tight on time, I highly recommend a visit to the Palace.

Palace and lagoon

Swans live here.

Another bird but I don't know what....

Someone's balloons got away.

Does this look like a fake rock to you??

I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah....

Towards the end of my trip, I was walking along the paved path and heard squawking from above. I looked up, and there on a treetop was a parrot! I have always known that SF is home to two or three flocks of feral parrots, and I've heard them squawking before, but this was my first sighting of a Real Wild Parrot of San Francisco. I was terribly excited over this.

YAYYYY!!!!!!

Sunday I went to Noe Valley again, grabbed a multi and some frozen yogurt (the kind where you pay by the ounce. And they had hot fudge sauce 8D). But I forgot to take interesting pictures so I will just give you this picture of a pink-and-purple flower.

- Antisocial Violinist