Victor went out after work on Thursday with the rest of the Mobiata team to celebrate the release of one of their apps they've been working on for a long time. He had a lot of fun and finally figured out that whenever they go out as a team, the bill gets expensed to Expedia. This accounts for all the extravagant dinners and drink outings. He said the bill at this place was over $700, but I guess Expedia covers it. Crazy.
Friday after Vic got off we spent the evening at a bookstore/coffee house/wine bar (reminded me of you, Abbey, but I'm pretty sure yours is probably way cooler) that's just a couple blocks from our temporary housing. We got hot chocolate and ice cream, and I wrote while Victor worked.
Saturday we went shopping at Union Square. This is the area that's in the downtown where all the big chain stores are. We went to the giant, multi-level stores like Forever21, H&M, Gap and, my favorite, Anthropologie. We didn't get anything, but it was fun to look around, and it was my first time actually being in a real Anthro store and that was awesome. Like Pinterest exploded. And Victor actually enjoyed it too because there were a lot of fun coffee table books to look at.
Later that day, we attempted to go to some street festival on Haight Street that we looked up on this website that is pretty self-explanatory - just a website where they list fun and cheap things to do in San Francisco. However, when we got there, it didn't exist. But we still enjoyed walking around the area. Haight Street is very interesting. It's one of the only places in the city that has retained its hippie, artist, burnout, counter-culture that San Francisco was known for before the techie boom.
Sunday morning, we went to Reality church which is the real church that our friend recommended to us and not the place we attempted last week. Reality church meets in a middle school in the Mission District (we're getting really good at the MUNI trains, by the way). It's pretty large. I'm not good at estimating, but I would guess at least 500 people were there. Probably more. We liked the worship, and the sermon was ok. The craziest thing was that when we got up to take communion in this huge auditorium with so many people with all the lights off, we spotted one of Victor's coworkers. So weird! Justin is also a graphic designer for Mobiata, so Victor sees him every day. He found us when the service was over and asked us if we wanted to go out to lunch with him and his girlfriend and some of their friends, and, of course, we said yes.
Justin said he used to go to Epic church for the first couple years that he lived in San Francisco (he's from Bloomington, Indiana), which is the first church we went to a few weeks ago. He started going to Reality because that's where his girlfriend went (and she's from Champaign!). We had a good time talking with him. He's very nice and was giving us all sorts of advice and information about the city and neighborhoods. We all grabbed lunch and took it to Dolores Park, which is one of the more, if not the most, famous parks in the city. For whatever reason, it's the place to be. I think probably because it tends to be warmer in the Mission so people like to go there and get sun. But it's always packed.
After that, we split from Justin and his friends, and Victor and I walked around the Mission for awhile. The Mission is one of the most expensive areas to live in the city right now. Apparently all the hipsters flooded that area, and the rent is out of control. It is pretty cool though. There's a lot of cool bookstores and art stores and so. many. coffee shops.
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| Awesome house in the Mission |
Also, today we found out that the moving company came through for Sunday! They told us last week that they didn't think they could get us movers that soon. Deja vu. But they called Victor a few hours ago, and we have movers so we get to move in on Sunday as planned!
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