weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

yay! my designated driver has left!

and the weather turned better around noon. so not too bad at all
went to the SFMOMA (very nice) and after to chinatown. i did the Lonely Plannet walk, and it seemed like that was just me for a change ;)

anyway, i ended up at the fortune cookie factory, where they make you pay for making pictures. to make up for that i bought a big bag of cookies too. i wonder what mr fortune cookie has under it's dough for me. for lunch i had pad thai or however you spell it (yours was better Heidi) at some park full of chinese people. i've never felt so white in my life. for some reason or other there were 2 'elders' (van die gezellige mormonen jongens die de boel willen bekeren) in a park full of chinese men. how odd. i walked on and on and on and on, up a hill and down a hill and back up a hill until i got to a really big hill called Telegraph Hill. so i climbed it, as i had nothing else to do in particular, and i wasn't planning to come back. i took the elevator all the way to the top of the tower on top of the hill, from which i could see very far. very far indeed, but no good pictures as there was smudgy glass between me and the view. oh well, wasn't too bad. after climbing all the way down i went in the direction of the Financial District (oh how tedious) where i paid the Wells Fargo people a visit. they had a little informative display on the pony thing and something to do with wagons and highway men. there was also a camera crew. it was fun to make silly pictures on the balcony with a flashlight (hehehehehe). i soon got bored of the not so exciting sky scrapers s i made my way back to the hostel to rest my feet and more particular, my knees who don't seem to like the amount of (hill)walking i'm doing these days. all in all i had a good time, got round to clear my camera and buy some pizza slices. tomorrow is really Berkeley time. nothing else is planned and i've got the supershuttle people picking me up on sunday morning at the ungodsly hour of 6 in the AM to get to the airport. i hope it is quite a drive, since it's 3 hrs before my flight leaves.

all that is another adventure, so you'll hear about that another time.

grtz, judith

ps. sorry to miss you here Kalki, why not fly back by way of Dallas so you can come to the meeting? jk, but it would've been fun.......