The Perrys: September 2013

Last Thursday was Jeff's birthday. Although we took a lot of photos, they are in the middle of being uploaded, so look to the side for a more updated slideshow soon!

Because Jeff's birthday was in the middle of the week and it wasn't a "big" birthday (one that ends in a 0 or 5), we decided to have an easy day.

If you don't know, one of Jeff's favorite things to do is go to San Francisco. Despite both of us having grown up in the bay area, there's always a LOT to do, even for us locals! So the first stop we made was to the Ferry Building. There was a farmer's market going on, so we wandered through that, as well as eat our lunch there at Gott's. It's a diner-style burger place that we went to for Jeff's birthday a few years back, but because he was under the weather, he couldn't eat and enjoy the food, but this time we made up for it. We had a great lunch of burgers, fries and shakes. YUM!

After that we decided to walk down to Pier 15. This is where they moved the Exploratorium (click here for their website) originally located in Golden Gate Park. The Exploratorium is an awesome museum with a lot of hands-on exhibits. We went a lot in elementary school and one of the most unforgettable exhibits was the dissection of a cow's eye, but there are also weird motion experiments, things with magnets and more. Although it's been a long time since either one of us have been, the new site actually felt bigger than what we remembered during our youth. One of the funniest games was a fishing game. The object was to catch fish by texting, and make sure that you caught enough fish to survive, but allow enough in the water to maintain sustainability. At first we just stood there and then we figured we could walk around the museum and still text the program, thus making our high score (the time we were alive) even higher. We actually have a pass we got from Groupon, so we can go back again!

The fishing game we "won". I think our record ended up being about 90 minutes!

On the way home, we stopped off at Palo Alto to pick up one of our favorite pizzas, Patxi's. It's a deep-dish pizza place right off of University that has a huge variety for everyone, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. Originally we had considered going out to eat there, ubt because it was warm and we were getting tired, we opted to pick up a pizza and take it home instead. That worked out because Jeff got to open a few nice presents: A Halo charger in his signature bright green from my folks, and 2 sets of tickets from me: One for the Star Wars exhibit at the Tech Museum, and another set of tickets to go see John Williams and Steven Spielberg at the San Francisco Symphony. The tickets for the symphony are for next Monday, and the exhibit is open-ended, so we will have to plan that day out.

In other news, Jen's "staycation" is over. She enjoyed having the week to relax and unwind without having to worry about work, and tomorrow she's going back to the trenches. On the plus side, a good bit of the house was cleaned while she was home and we ate more at home (except for Jeff's birthday of course!)

Also, the Perry Farm is continuing to provide us with more goodies. Today we were able to pick more squash and cucumbers (and FYI: The Spanish and Tagalog word for cucumber is "Pepino"!). They are actually quite large, and very fresh and fragrant. When we picked the first cucumbers and cut them up, the smell carried throughout the house. Pretty impressive for something that's mostly water!