Hey you want to go for a walk?

My second big week/end in SF started on Wednesday. Kurt and I met at the airport as he was coming back from Dallas. I worked two days at the office which went well, people talked to me! I went out for lunch with a guy who has the possibility to be my new boss, if all goes well. His name is Dean and he could not be more polar opposite from Bob, my current boss. He is super low key, very process oriented, lower energy and does not believe in bothering his people past 5 pm. Would be totally weird for me but I think would help me grow my procedural skills. Plus it would get me out to SF quicker. Lots of details to work through both from a Salesforce stand point and a condo/moving standpoint. With all to discuss in that regards we headed out to get a glass of wine. There is a really cute wine bar just a block away, stopped in and got some California wines and a little cheese place (please note happy cows still come from WI not CA). Friday night we went out with our good friend Joe to a German restaurant (tally 2 German restaurants in as many visits), it was cute and decent food. And then went to a ridiculous bar that looked like something out of pirates of the carribean but on the outside was just a boring plain building. Saturday we set out in the late morning for a visit to Golden Gate Park which we decided we would walk to and give ourselves a chance to see some other neighborhoods. We walked about 6 miles to the park through Pacific Heights (which we have already been to and liked), a quick farmers market, a trip through Haight Ashbury (my inner hippie was very happy), then picked up some lunch for our picnic. Golden Gate Park is over 1,000 acres, 3 miles by .5 mile, created in the 1800s, very similar to Central Park. Inside there are beautiful gardens, lakes, large trees, sports fields, including equestrian fields and windmills! I think you could spend weeks in there and always see something new. We ended up having a nice little picnic in the rose garden and enjoyed watching SF people in their natural environment (our own personal zoo!). In typical San Francisco style it was both hot and cold and windy and not depending on how many steps forward you took! We walked the entire length of the park, climbing to the top of Strawberry Hill which we will all do when you come to town! So if you are keeping track of the mileage we are at 9 miles. Well we decided to walk down the beach and enjoy the being by an ocean, a really cool space with lots of people out having campfires and picnics (all bundled in their finest winter coats). We wandered through Outer Richmond and checked out an open house - not a good fit for us - I think the kitchen had the same refrigerator (using term loosely) that I had in my college dorm room but the place had a really cute backyard and was a house! Gives us a little hope we won't be living in the smallest apt on the face on the planet. So after our wandering we decided to head home since it was about 4pm. Well we decided to walk back! There were moments of debate about a cab home. My legs hurt (oh I was wearing Tom's not real running shoes). BUT we persevered and walked the entire way home! It really wasn't that bad, I think we felt pretty proud of ourselves and both were really excited to see what the Up Band had to tell us about how far we walked! Up said we walked 40,000 steps and just shy of 20 miles! I told Kurt we should have just gone half way back so we could say we walked a marathon. Needless to say we ordered some food and I was sound asleep by 9. HA. Today we took a cab (re-read how far we walked yesterday) to go to an event called http://offthegridsf.com well we prematurely got out of the cab. We accidentally got out by the America's Cup which meant we had to proceed to walk to and through Crissy Field which is a large beach (not really a sunning beach) that is under the Golden Gate bridge, has beautiful views and filled with lots of exercisers and sports. We ended up having to walk about 3+ miles to get to where the food truck picnic actually was. Probably the last thing either of us wanted to do but we did find a really cool area by the Presidio that is filled with beautiful big trees and a paved trail. You don't feel like you are in the city at all. Very serene. The food truck, farmers market was neat. They had a ton of food and drink vendors. Lots of people came with blankets and coolers and games. We had a couple of items (I had tacos - fish and pork) and Kurt had a Crab BLT. All were good. It was a fun little Sunday event. I could definitely see us getting some friends and spending part of the day in the park hanging out. Tonight we have Kurt's first hockey game with a new team. Then we are both back to the airport tomorrow for flights to Chicago and Newport Beach! Will keep you posted on the move! Love, Kim