San FranTASTIC

so Jake and I spent this past weekend in San Francisco. 

We took the train in on Friday night to stay with Ted Lescher (Dartmouth '10 and long-jumping legend) who lives in the Castro. Soon after arriving we hitched a ride from another alum Brian Bensch who drove us over to the house of DJ Ruckus, aka Ruslan ('09), who has a great apartment (with some other recent grads) overlooking the city. We spent the rest of the night at a sailor-themed party downtown. Most of the time we were busy (accidentally) scaring people we didn't know off the dance floor with our crazy suave moves.

This is the one picture I took at the party.  That's Jake on the left. 

When we woke up Saturday afternoon, it was light out, so we went to find breakfast (/late lunch) and explore a bit. 

The Castro is an interesting scene to walk around: many restaurants with bad innuendos for names (ie. Twin Peaks, Rock Hard, The Sausage Factory, etc) and plenty of men ready to give you a wink. 

Ted lives near here. 

After a delicious feast of Huevos Rancheros (we all got the same thing), Jake and I took a trolley car downtown for the Fleet Week airshow. We met up with Nikhil Jain ('09), a friend from Ethic's Society at school, in the National Maratime park just in time to see an incredible 40min performance by the Blue Angels.

I could do that. 

After the show, Nikhil brought us to his office near the top of the tallest building in San Francisco which had amazing panoramic views of the city. Jake and I grabbed some Subway for dinner and then walked almost 4miles back to Ted's house because trolley's are the least reliable form of transport since the domestication of animals and we're too cheap (we'll call it frugal) to take a taxi. 

Saturday night we went somewhere (honestly, I have no idea where the taxi took us) and went to a bar where we didn't even have to use the new IDs that add a couple of months to our ages. Then we went to a Google party with some of Ted's co-workers and just sat around a computer googling things with about 40 other people for hours. 

This employee was unfortunately unable to attend. 

Sunday afternoon when we woke, we drove with Ted back to Palo Alto, helped him load a new bed frame (complete with "Sultan Slats") into his car and then played some tennis at Stanford until the lights shut-off. 

Total cost of the weekend: $35/ person

Total happiness: a lot