San Francisco

I was home alone on Wednesday after Benz left for LA and Milu left for Vegas. Came back from work at around 6pm. Din't feel like cooking any thing. Had maggi (maggi has been the backup meal for me most of my adult life - when i've stayed away from home!). Went to the gym. It was 10pm...worked on the computer...i really don't remember what i did, but i finally went to sleep around 1am.
Well woke up at 4:15am! Just changed and left. Had to park the car near the airport before i took the flight to SFO at 6am. This parking costed just $25 for 6days. That was quite a difference from the park n go people who were offering the space for $48!

The flight was okay. They gave me a free headphone to listen to new XM Satellite radio on the plane. No food was served (how could one possible survive hungry by waking up at 4am and not get nething till 12pm)! I picked up a snack at the airport. I was dying to eat!

Hemant mama started off late from Sacremento and was not going to reach SFO before 2:30pm. Pulkit had joined them last night. He had a sudden plan to visit them on Tuesday. So i drove off to Mr. Raghu Bhargava's house in San Hose. Met nani's mami when i reached there...Raghu himself was not home! and neither were his 3 kids Neha, Ritu & Rishi. Well i passed time watching TV.

hmmm...at this point in my story, it seems i will go on and on and will take up atleast 3pages in this sfo story...so i'll cut short!

Hemany mama, mami, utsav, pranav & pulkit reached San Hose around 3pm. Was happy to see them all! Meanwhile we had been working on the menu for the thanksgiving menu. We cooked turkey. Yes! Spent thankgiving the American traditional way! There were Yams (sweet potato), tortilla chips with Hemant mama's chutneys...bread, some veggi stuff for the veggies. Stuffed myself to the brim. And went to sleep around 11pm...afterall i had almost not slept at all for 48 hours!
Woke up at 10am, dressed up and we left for San Francisco downtown. Surprisingly we found free parking space on thanksgiving day! It was unbelievable! although we soon realised that all parking was free due to public holiday :p. Anyways we went to Macy's...din't buy nothing there...clothes seemed good and cheap, but was in no mood for shopping. We went to the Coit Tower. It's probably at the highest point in SFO. The view from the top was great! We had Thai lunch. Drove around the downtown...the streets were soooooo steep! It was amazing (will upload pics). We went to watch golden gate bridge. It looked beautiful. The wind was pretty strong on the little mountains from mwhere we saw and photographed the bridge...most of my pics are shaky!

Anyways, later in the evening we drove back to Davis. It was about a couple of hours drive.
On Saturday, we went hiking, went to the univeristy campus, tried bowlinng but it was all booked :(, played air hockey :). Utsav tried a few of the other games at the entertainment center.
On Sunday we went to visit the Sacremento downtown. It was once known to be full of muggers and gangs and bad people...but now it is very safe and has infact become a tourist attraction.
We saw about a 1000 harley davisons near the Capitol (work place of the governor - Mr. Arnie). It was some kinda meeting festival for all Harley drivers. no bikes with mama, but we did get to do a lot of cycling :p

Overall it was a relaxing vacation. Had good food all the time. Mama likes cooking and making new stuff...and mami is not a bad cook at all either. we played (or we Were Made to) a lot of bonus (a card game) with Utsav! Childish masti with Pranav.

Came back on Tueday morning.