Gameday Saturday, SF Sunday
This past Saturday, Melih and Matt came over to Palo Alto. We met at the Stanford driving range, where Melih was to show off the tricks he learned during his golf lessons at Harding Park (what a nice present by Micky). I really needed to brush off the cobwebs a bit too. We spent an hour there, and Matt apparently almost killed me shanking a shot off with a driver. I was just practicing my own swing when I look up and see a horrified expression on both their faces before they burst out laughing. Hehe.
We then headed over to the Old Pro, my go-to sports bar in Palo Alto. It’s the same place that Amit and I went to for March Madness when Donny and Mike were both in town. Nader and I were also there last weekend to watch the NCSU vs Carolina game….at 9am. Yes, they had coffee. The place wasn’t too crowded, and we found a table in front of the soon-to-start Florida vs Alabama game. I love watching football with Melih and Matt — these guys know so much about it and are really passionate about the sport. Matt is from Oklahoma and is an OU alum, and so I was very excited when we later found out that Stanford would be playing Oklahoma in the Sun Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
After eating way too much junk food at the Old Pro, I headed back to the apartment and caught the the tantalizing end of the Texas-Nebraska game. It was madness; 1:44 min away from BCS chaos, and Nebraska then completely self-destructs.
On Sunday, I headed back up to SF (I know, been visiting a lot lately) to drop off an application for an apartment in Noe Valley. I picked up a sandwich at Whole Foods and strolled over to Dolores Park where I hoped to get some sun and reading done. But alas, the weather didn’t cooperate; the sun never broke out from the clouds, and the wind picked up. I killed some time in coffee shops and looked at some DSLR cameras in stores along Market Street. Melih was free so I dropped by their apartment where he and Micky were babysitting little Ben, whom I saw in an adorable monkey outfit at Melih’s halloween party. Later that night, his friend David came over and the four of us had dinner at Kezar’s Pub in Cole Valley (not too far from Zazie, the incredible brunch place that Terrell, Tim, and I went to during the weekend of Outside Lands back in 2008). By this time it was cold and raining, but Melih was kind enough to drop me off near by car down by Dolores Park. Though the weather wasn’t stellar, when you got great friends to laugh and chat with, everything turns out ok.