A Cupertino Carol
2012.04.20 in personal
After having not seen each other for almost a year, Carol came out to Cupertino for a whole week! I took the week off, and we had pretty much the busiest, most amazing week ever together. I'll write about some of the things in more detail later, but here's a linkified extremely-brief summary: (there are a few pages of pictures on Flickr, as always)
Friday, 2012.04.13- Work for a few hours
- Run over to SFO
- Find a wild roaming Carol
- BART/Caltrain/VTA back to Cupertino, pausing at some Indian place on Murphy for food
- Hang out at home, nap to the sounds of Robin Williams playing a woman
- Walk to Avis; fail to acquire a car
- VTA to SJC, acquire a car; yay, Enterprise
- Try to drive to the bay, get caught up in Shoreline Amphitheater traffic
- Return to Cupertino, chill
- Dinner at Rok with Ryan and Julia
- All four return to Cupertino, watch Game of Thrones S01E01
- Breakfast! Bacon and (for Carol) eggs and stuff
- Drive to SF, leave the car near Fisherman's Wharf
- Lunch at The Codmother
- Walk up to Coit Tower
- Walk back down the other side, then back up the Embarcadero
- Sunset cruise on the AdventureCat2
- Train at the Fillmore
- Return to Cupertino, crash
- Return to SF
- Attempt to go to the Exploratorium; fail (they were closed)
- Attempt to go to the California Academy of Sciences; fail (we got there 20 minutes before closing)
- Lunch from a food truck around the music concourse
- Wander through Golden Gate park
- Drive across the bridge, wander Sausalito, watch the sunset
- Dinner in Sausalito at Poggio
- Return to Cupertino, crash
- Lunch at Jalisco (to get Carol some horchata)
- Drive down 101 to Monterey
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Wander Monterey
- Dinner at Old Fisherman's Grotto (everything still smells like crab)
- Drinks and entertaining music at the Mucky Duck
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi at Osio
- Crash at the Colton Inn
- Wander Monterey, eventually finding breakfast and a printer
- Depart Monterey, drive up 1 towards SF
- Stop at a few places along the way, including Santa Cruz and Pigeon Point
- Gotye at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, right up front (basically 2012-reincarnated-Peter-Gabriel)
- Return to Cupertino
- Head up to Napa!
- Visit some wineries, taste some wine (V. Sattui, Beringer, St. Clement); Carol bought a lot of California wine
- Dinner at Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc, in Yountville
- Wander Yountville
- Return to Cupertino
- Trek to Saratoga
- Lunch at Masu; a variety of sushi
- Find Tom, drive to Millbrae, BART to SF, find Meb
- Dinner at Millenium
- Spamalot at the Orpheum
- Wander SF
- Return to Cupertino
- Early morning Whole Foods adventure for maple syrup
- Pancakes!
- Return the rental car to SJC
- Wander San Jose
- Bubble tea!
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
- Dinner at Firehouse No. 1
- Visit the SJMADE fair
- Return to Cupertino
- Bye, Carol!