By Jason
I wanted to share some video from my paternity leave. A quick apology – this video looks really long, because it’s actually three videos stitched together. The software for our camera does this by default and I just haven’t had time to monkey with it.
Last weekend Ann, Athena and I drove up to San Francisco to meet up with Tilek and Ralfi from Google Dublin. I hadn’t seen Tilek since last year when we went to Yosemite. We spent the day exploring the city.
Our first stop was The Mission, where we wandered around and grabbed some lunch. It’s an interesting neighborhood, famous for Latin culture and food, colorful murals and interesting hipster shops. We then drove up to Twin Peaks, one of the best places to see the city:
Our next stop was Haight-Ashbury, famous epicenter of the counter-culture movement in the 1960s. Now it’s a rather expensive area with a bunch of hippy shops and tattoo parlors. Athena really enjoyed this part of the trip – the crazy mix of colors was pretty amazing for her. Tilek and Ralfi were pretty impressed walking down the street – each shop is trying to compete with the others in outrageousness.
Finally we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge and stopped at the vista point on the other side.
Athena had an odd reaction to her first experience with wind – she stuck out her tongue and tried to taste it. This was actually her same reaction to rain, so at least she’s consistent.
I can’t help but a few more cute, but unrelated recent photos here at the end:
