The days Chris were here were fun. I made him "kogi tacos" for when he got here. They were a surprise. They actually didn't turn out too bad. I probably should have just used sesame oil for the dressing, though. I used some wasabi-sesame thing that was good, but also punched you in the face when you ate too quickly. The lesson learned here, of course, is not to eat quickly.
Wednesday, we walked from the Court of Appeals to the Hall of Justice for a brown bag lunch. Normally this would be fine. It's like a mile and a half to two miles. This happened to be the day I wore dressier shoes than usual, though. My feet usually cannot handle dress shoes, so this pretty much killed my feet. Pair that with a 3 mile walk with Chris and Bruce after work and I was pretty much hobbling around everywhere I went Thursday and Friday. Good times. We also went to Chevy's for dinner on Wednesday night. Good times. I love my Chevy's.
Thursday was oral arguments, which was a pretty intersting experience. I'm more excited about Thursday's arguments though. After work on Thursday, I met with Chris for Music in the Park. I went with a couple of the other interns from work. Third Eye Blind was the headliner. Because I used to like Semi Charmed Life or whatever it was called in grade school, I thought this would be a really fun experience and a trip down nostaglia lane. This was like the first time I didn't care that much about the band playing, so we were pretty far back and really didn't need to make the effort to get closer.
It's surprising how many people you end up seeing that you know at these things. Ran into some of Mia's friends and saw people I went to high school with and kids I've watched at day care at various times in my life.
Anyway, the first band was okay. I wasn't a fan when we first got there, but they got better as the show progressed. I kind of liked them towards the end. We waited a while between sets. In between, I entered to win Coldplay tickets and a bike. I don't think I've won either, which makes me sad. We also waited around while one thousand people pushed past us. They were being super obnoxious about it too. People at shows...
Also like everyone around us decided to smoke pot. Normally I would find this mildly irritating, but I was in my suit. As in I wear it to court. As in not a good idea to have it smell like drugs. We tried moving a couple times, but a new group around us would light up. Fun times. Fortunately, only my shirt came out smelling like that stuff. It is now waiting to be washed.
Eventually they started and man was it terrible. Singer could not carry a tune at all. They sounded like some bad local high school band. They screamed a lot too. It was terrible. We left about 30 minutes into the show. I gave them 5 songs to get better and they didn't. Fortunately, they pulled out one of their older songs before we left. After making it out of the mess that is Downtown San Jose during Music in the Park, we stopped by In N Out on the way home for dinner and watched Veronica Mars.
After work on Friday, we initially planned to go to San Francisco for some like ghost/seedy underbelly tour of San Francisco. I don't know it was on Fun and Cheap CD. After sitting through some of the traffic, we decided against it. We had Bruce with us anyway, so we just stopped by Chabba's place and walked Max. Stopped by Fry's and Double D's on the way back and then went home.
Saturday we woke up early and drove to Vallejo for the 3rd Annual Northern California Pirate Festival. It was pretty much as awesome as it sounds, but also terrifying at the same time.
We were supposed to go with Andrew, but he wasn't awake to answer the phone. We even stopped by his house, but no one answered the door, so we eventually just gave up and the three of us just went.
Once we got there, we ran into several other festivals/car shows/whatever before we eventually found the actual festival. Almost everyone there was dressed like a pirate. It made my own pirateness feel very inadequate.
We took some goofy pictures at the entrance before finding something to eat.
We had meat pies for lunch. They were not made by Mrs. Lovett. This is a good thing because I was not in the mood to try human. The place we stood in line for also had scones. The rum cake the booth over actually sounded better, but the line for the meat pies took forever and the other line was just as bad. The scone was super good anyway.
After eating around, we wandered around for a while. There were mostly shops ands games for kids and stuff. Surprisingly, no grog OR rum. This saddened me. They had this roulette-esque game. Instead of spinning a wheel, they let a mouse out and the mouse chose the number everyone bet on. I think they might have done this at the Renaissance Fair I went to way back when.
We found the pirate music stage and there was a little band of pirates singing folk songs. Unsurpringingly, they were significantly better than Third Eye Blind was. I'm not bitter or anything.
Right next to the stage was some axe throwing game. Chris and I were intrigued, so we decided to play. We each got 4 axes to throw. Chris actually hit the target more often than I did, but I was the only one to got it to stick to the target. And on the bullseye. I win.
After that, we waited around to watch a canon show. It seemed like it would be fun. The moment the canons went off, though, Bruce freaked out. He was actually enjoying himself for the most part because he got a lot of attention from pirates and he loves getting attention. This ruined the event for him. We left shortly after and he was happy once we got away from all the pirates. Poor dog. He'll probably have nightmares about pirates for the rest of his life because of that experience.
The drive back was a lot shorter than the drive there. For one, we didn't get stuck in traffic like we did before the toll bridge. We did stop by REI. Chris was getting annoyed that my water bottle leaked everywhere, so he got me a Klean Kanteen. When we were almost home around 4, Andrew called us and told us he just woke up. Not surprising. We invited him to dinner with us though.
We got home and ran back out. Chris wanted to return what he bought at Frys and I wanted Yogurtland. Good combination. Apparently the one near Mitty does not have my Taro yogurt, though. Also, some high school age girl who didn't work there was obnoxiously trying to teach us how to Yogurtland works because we were asking some guy for sample cups. Whatever. Like I don't understand Yogurtland.
We came back. Watched some Veronica Mars while we waited for Andrew. Andrew came and we played frisbee with Bruce. Waited for Uncle Brian who didn't get here until 9:30/10ish. After some deliberating we went to this Ethiopian place that Uncle Brian knew of. I'd always wanted to try Ethiopian food. I was an interesting experience. Uncle Brian ordered a lot of lamb though :-/ not a big fan of lamb.
That's about it for this weekend. Chris left this morning after breakfast. Uncle Brian left a couple of hours later. I chilled out with Bruce for the rest of the day. Back to work tomorrow.
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