We had a blast! (see the photos!)

Thursday night after we came back here to drop off our stuff, immediately I grabbed a pen & paper to make a list of all the things we wanted to do so I was sure we were maximizing every minute of our short weekend together! And boy, did we!

Haylie mentioned that she wanted to go to Sanrio & Chinatown – and looking at the rest of our weekend, I was like – OK, let’s go now!! So we headed downtown and hit the SF Center (Sanrio is now on the bottom floor there, instead of their huge flagship store), Sephora (one of Haylie’s favorite stores!), Urban Outfitters, Apple store, and then finally to Chinatown. We were going to go to an IMAX at the Metreon, but by the time we’d wandered around and done a little shopping, it was too late to try to fit in dinner & then the movie – so we mosied around some more & then went & had a late dinner at the yummy Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack. delish!! Hit the spot, cuz we were hungry!

Friday I worked, but Haylie was delighted to just hang in her PJ’s on the computer at my place.. and she had some sites to work on, too. The girl is a photoshoppin, html’in, ftp’in girl just like her older sis! :)

Around 6 we got ready & went to Blowfish Sushi! They play anime and loud music & I thought Haylie would dig seeing such a funky restaurant. She’s not an anime fan – and neither of us really liked the music – but the sushi was good! :)

We made it over to the Brain Wash cafe just in time to see our friends & chat w/ Jem & Jasmyn before they went on. Tanya, Misty, Ted & Darren were there – which was great for Haylie to meet all my friends! It was really cool to see my girl Jem sing & play! I had no idea she had so many skillz – she was playing the keyboards & singing, and then her acoustic guitar and singing. It was wonderful to see her & Jasmyn play all the songs they’ve been working on for the last month or so!

Jem has a really sweet, soft voice and I wanted to yell “More Vocals!” but I was afraid she’d say back to me (since I was just a few feet away) “Then it won’t be soft!” :) Overall I was so happy to be there watching and supporting my favorite Jemmy Jem. I even wore my 2 JEM pins in celebration. I’m the pres of her fan club!

So after that Haylie & I were like “What should we do?” Go rent Napolean Dynamite! Yesssss! And the video store even had ice cream there – saved us a trip! woohoo! So we came home, and like the geek that I am while we watched the movie I organized a bunch of CD’s that needed to be placed into the A-Z’s. Awesome, because I’d been meaning to do that for months!!

Saturday we got up & went to breakfast at my favorite: Boogaloos! Cam & Jenna came to meet us, but were a bit late due to some unforseen chaos Cam incurred… but we at least got to see them on the way out! Cam is a sweetie (and a spaz) and gave Haylie a big hug & swung her around and Haylie loved it :) I was glad she at least got to meet them! We would have stayed to chat, but we had to rush over to our 11am class!

Haylie & I planned on taking a Silkscreening class at the Mission Cultural Center – and it was awesome!!! It was a 4 hour ordeal and our teacher was so nice & the facility is great! We had SOOO much fun & I can’t wait to go back there & do more silkscreening!!

After we were done w/ that we were ready to come home for our scheduled “chill time”. But Haylie was on a creative roll! So after checking email & such, she was like “Did you say you had paints? Cuz I really want to paint these roses out your window.” And so I went & grabbed my paints & we set up Haylie a little painting station & she painted the beautiful pink roses that are blooming out my window. It came out great too!! She gave it to me (yay!) so I’ll have to take a pic or scan it – it really came out amazing. She’s so talented!!

While she was painting, I watched this documentary I’ve had on Netflix for awhile and was so happy to finally have time to watch it! It was on Robert Rauchenburg – who’s one of my favorite artists & I have been wanting to see this for a long time. It was really quite timely too – because he’s one of the foremost artists to use silkscreening in his work to the magnitude that he has. Truly amazing! I learned a lot about him and it was nice to relax a bit.

Saturday night we had dinner with Lyne at the Ethiopian restaurant on Valencia. I love Ethiopian myself and Haylie was a sport to try it! But unfortunately neither of the girls enjoyed it, which was a bummer. I guess Lyne didn’t like the eating with your hands part – and Haylie’s not a fan of anything with spice… and I think it was just too different for her to get into. Oh well! Now I can’t wait to go with someone who enjoys it as much as me. It’s like going to sushi w/ someone who doesn’t eat fish! jeeshk! :) But I was happy Lyne got to join us for a bit.

Haylie & I then headed over to the Youth Speaks’ Brave New Voices event at Nob Hill Masonic. We got there around 7:15 – but I think by the time we waited in the super long will call line it had to have been 8:15 by the time we were actually seated. But it was cool! Youth ages 13-19 were competing in 5 different teams. There were 4 rounds, and we heard scores at the end of each ‘performance’. It was really fun to hear which ones Haylie liked and overall to see the crowd of about 3000 people be so supportive and excited for these talented youth! I loved it!

We were going to go to Cafe du Nord to see Loquat afterwards, but we didn’t get out of there till about 11:30, so the responsible (and admittedly tired) big sister decided we should probably go home instead, so we did. We both had had a long day & I was glad we decided to come home and get the good rest we needed!

Sunday morning we got around & headed out to Matt’s for a DELICIOUS pancake breakfast! He even made us bacon & sausage too – and we had fresh strawberries & bananas cut up for our pancakes. It was sooo yummmy!!! Matt’s the best cook and it was so great to see him and his cutie kitty, Donovan.

So then, to squeeze every little last minute of fun out of our trip before she had to go, we headed to the beach for a few quick pics of the Pacific! And then cruised through the Haight all the way downtown for a quick 20 minute stop off at the Paul Frank store :) Seriously we could have not squeezed in one more thing! We left straight from there to the airport & shipped lil’ Haylie off, back to Steamboat.

Thanks for coming to visit, sis!! I love yoU!!! xoxoxooxox