holy pie plates, batman!

The cat gets to go in and out whenever she wants. You're supposed to open the door when she waits there.

 This is from making dough (for pie) lesson of the week. Can you guess who made the Batman?

found downtown

 The bus drops me off at the Embarcadero, and when I have time, I like to walk the rest of the way into Powell. Embarcadero is pretty much the financial district, and there's more excitement at the commercial district at Powell. It's not a bad walk because there's plenty of public spaces and art pieces that keep things visaully interesting, aside from the suit monkeys - but let's face it, business casual in San Francisco would be anyone else's definition of casual.

Berkeley hills

Hats off to Berkeley Hills real estate. Even though it's all on incredibly unstable land and looks like it could all go rolling down at any minute, it sure makes for interesting tresspassing treks.

Our first destination was Indian Rock. And, my genius thinking, figured we still had time, a beautiful day, and the general direction of the Rose Gardens was 'that' way. My midwestern logic has only ever assumed grids. There are no grids. Never underestimate the power of winding roads to throw everything off course. We found it eventually. We tresspassed hiked into someone's backyard a waterfall. We cardboarded down the concrete slide and mingled with the people the slide is actually supposed to be ridden by.
 We also saw/heard chickens and the jasmine. Oh, olfactory bliss, the jasmine.

in the heights

I arrived at 7am to wait in a line that was going to open at 10am. So B and I got a time slot for 4pm. But they did provide entertainment. There waws a street artist creating this as the line snaked around him.

We had some time to kill, but because they just gave people wristbands at the beginning, we didn't have to be in line the whole time. B and I got to zipline across the Embarcadero for free. It was a Canadian tourism company that was doing this. Per usual, the gloomy day got sunnier. Nothing but blue skies.