Heat wave on the foggy bay

It's been a while and I wanted to make sure that the title encompassed the most important thing that happened in San Francisco / my life over the last few weeks....temperatures were at 90 degrees!!! Word on the street had it that temperatures were record breaking in the Bay Area.  Why am I making such a stink about the weather when it's summer, you may ask?  WELL, it seemed as though I finally got my wish for temperatures above 65 in this city and it was intense!


Besides it being "hotter than Hades" in the 'Frisco, Sandy & Edgar Snyder came to town.  As one usually does when her parents arrive, I brought out the red carpets and made my bed in honor of their arrival.  Luckily, the sun basically did not stop shining for the entirety of their stay.  When my parents got to town last Saturday, I was excited to show them my 'hood and they were pleased that I could see the Golden Gate Bridge (and the people getting drunk on another rooftop next door) at 2pm.  Like most tourists, they were anxious to walk along the water and insisted on taking the long route (1.5 hours walking) back from my apartment to their hotel.  The remainder of our weekend was spent ferrying to Sausalito, eating delicious food, reuniting in North Beach with my SF family: Aunt Faye Faye, Steph, Owen, and Faramarz.

Sandy & Edgar after we enjoyed our lunch on the rocks

As the week began, I enticed my parents' palettes with delicacies from the Google café.  My mom was particularly pleased with the pureed soup and the vast selection of goodies in the salad bar.  My father, on the other hand, was quite overwhelmed by the deliciousness of Google's hot cookies.  They both left the office with ideas for how they can bring composting to Pittsburgh and look forward to starting a compost pile in our backyard in Sq. Hill.  [jokes]

Beyond Google SF, my parents made the mecca to the Gooooooogleplex down in Mountain View where the temperature was (no joke) 105 degrees.  Since they were worried that the Google campus would be more than they could handle, they also brought my dad's best childhood friend, Steve Jacobs, with them to share in the fun.  Needless to say, as most people are, my parents & Steve were thoroughly impressed with the amount of activity and lack of work that appeared to be going on around Google.  I mean, it was after all close to 5p and the sand volleyball games & individual swimming lessons were picking up.  My mom was pleased to see that the Google gym was packed and my father enjoyed stealing M&M's from the micro kitchens and also making himself frozen yogurt.

Compared to the earlier part of our week, the latter was relatively calm.  I took Wednesday off to spend the day gallivanting through the streets of SF with my mom.  My father fell in love with the Cal Train and found his way to Stanford to golf.  There was more eating and a lot of working for me on Thursday and Friday.  Luckily, since the heat was becoming too much for this freezing city to handle, temperatures went back down to normal by Thursday and all was cold again in the Bay Area.

I've spent the remainder of this weekend taking in the city...I biked to the Castro yesterday, hung out with Cohan & Sink in the Mission last night, and spent today brunching with my friend Tricia from PSU and reading the Times & sleeping in Fort Mason park.  

A picture from this afternoon in Fort Mason...love the "Retro Camera" app for Android, BTW..

For all my mid-western bump-a-licious readers, I'm in MI from Aug 31-Sept 5.  I'll be in 412 homewood (aka Pittsburgh) from Sept 6-11th.