A week in San Francisco

People in New England emigrate to Florida in freezing winter. It makes sense for Texas folks to escape to California coast or New England in hot summer, even just for a week, which we did this year.

Last time I came to SF was January 2007, thanks to dad's conference trip. Now I felt like coming back to see my old friend.

We stayed a condo in San Francisco city, right next to MOMA. The condo was rented by auntie for a month at a special deal. We just took a free ride. It is said regular rent is $3000 per month plus $250 for a tiny parking slot. That is one of the reasons that most of people live in this condo drive BMW 3 series, Merceds CLS/CLK, Porche, and unknown tiny fancy sports car, that are easy to park. I am not kidding. The imbalance of housing price and housing size really make we Texan scratch our heads.

Rental car cost twice much as other cities. People told us sometimes cars were rented out in summer. Forget about price and you should feel luck to get one.

Parking is prohibitive, but we were lucky to get one free. What a luck!

A whole food store is one block away, recommended by people living here. It becomes our grocery store as our mindset are san-fancied, a new word we had to create.

Then it was our start of exciting SF adventure.

Day one:

...

I will let Tony to tell exciting part this time. Please see his blog for coming stories.

Then we were back to Austin. So in a day, we experienced 72F at noon in SFO and 95F at 11:00PM in AUS. But we did appreciate more our spacious streets and housing. In a way feel like a little chicken breaking out of egg shell.

Ray's Baby skill

Tony likes talking and whenever Ray talks, Tony always talks twice much back, though 90% of what he says is not understandable.
Ray knows how to deal with baby talking. Here it comes:

Tony:"aadyuo, jljhljladyfi, adkoqlk, oqakln, qimc, eojojljlagg, bla bla bla ....."
Ray kept his head down, working his stuff and replied:"OK."
Then Tony goes:" kqiuq, aipqhe, dfhloq, gqkjka, ejhkja, bla bla bla ...."
Ray:"Yes, you are right."
Then Tony was satisfied and kept quiet.

Mom is a genius

Mom picks Ray up from school at 2:30PM everyday. Then it is gonna be almost 4 hours she has to deal with two boys herself alone. It is a tough job as one of them is very needy. It is even tougher when it comes dinner cooking time. Cooking dinner and dealing with Tony and Ray at the same time sounds like a mission impossible.
We bought a book named 'How to cut' yesterday. This book taught kids how to make things with scissors. I was so into it and it became my favorite activity. Then it came to mom's cooking time. She came up with a creative idea to let me help her trim sweet bean clean with my scissors. I loved this job and did a wonderful job. You could bet on it as this job took me almost an hour to get it done. We all loved eating beans cleaned by me at dinner.