Another long day in SF

It is very late, but I am waiting for more photos to upload and I want to update you on my day. Earlier this week some plans were set in motion to meet up with some of my fellow Brown graduate students in San Francisco. Some couldn't make it but I was able to meet up with my friend Mayank at about 5:00. Since I was planning to meet up with him and possibly some other friends from school I headed over to SF late this morning because there were a couple things I wanted to do and see and also, my roommate, Andrew, wanted to go with me to scout out some good spots for photography. Anyway, we got over to the city and I wanted to find the main Old Navy downtown which is the largest Old Navy store in the world. It ended up that they were having some awesome sales and so I got a couple different pairs of shorts, a couple polos and another pair of flip-flops.

After we were done at Old Navy we headed north through the city. I showed him some of the cool places I found last weekend and we had a lot of fun casually hiking around the town seeing the sites. We ended up down by the water and got to eat lunch at an In N' Out burger!! I love that place, and I should have got a picture. After we ate it was about time for me to meet up with Mayank so I started walking south and Andrew decided to do some more scouting. Mayank wasn't quite done with the lunch he had scheduled with a friend so I hung out at Barnes and Noble for a while. Fun and relaxing.

Once we tracked each other down, I found out he hadn't been to the waterfront at all so we went down there and strolled around Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. After we decided we were sick of the crowds I thought it would be fun to climb up Telegraph hill to the old Coit tower since it was the one major hill in SF I hadn't been to the top of. We didn't pay to go up the tower but still got a great view of the bay and the city. We then wandered some more and took some goofy pictures on the steep hills.

One of our other friends from Brown, Korhan, called and wanted to meet up with us too, so we headed back South through downtown to meet up with him. He ended up getting a little lost in the crazy traffic, so Mayank and I wandered through the Virgin Megastore while we waited and I was amazed at their massive CD, DVD, TV on DVD and video game collections. Korhan finally got to the area and parked just in time for us to say hi and for me to head back to the transit station to head back over to the East Bay. So, I got to talk with him for a short bit of time about his new job (He just finished his Master's degree and is now working in the southern bay area).

I had to head back to Emeryville cause the last bus from the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station to my apartment left at 9:30 and I really didn't want to walk through that part of the city after dark.

Feel free to check out the pictures in the album on the right, or on my Facebook page. Lots more pictures of the bay, Alcatraz, and downtown. But, I really tried to get more pictures with people in them.

Now tomorrow, I am headed to church with some people that work at Pixar that are related to one of our friends in RI. I haven't met them yet, but they seem very nice and I'm looking forward to going to their church that looks very good. I will report further on that tomorrow. Here's the church's webpage if you want to check it out. http://www.cornerstone-sf.org

Hope you have a great Father's Day.