This past weekend was my last full weekend at home until June.
Saturday morning I headed out around 11AM to stop at BritShoppe.com‘s retail location on 15th street behind Potrero Center. It’s quite the gem, I was just reminiscing the other day about how I missed Lion bars – and they have them! Along with Aero bars, Curly Wurlys, Jaffa cakes. I did indulge a little in these goodies, but I was actually there to pick up some PG Tips and Yorkshire tea and Digestive biscuits to bring to the Ubuntu Developer Summit next week.
From there I headed over to the Partimus computer lab at Creative Arts Charter School for a Partimus board meeting. The meeting went quite well, we knocked off much of our agenda in just over an hour and we were able to be on our way.
On Sunday morning I woke up with some congestion and a sore throat, but music drifted down our street from the annual How Weird Street Faire that has an entrance next to our building. I was out of town last year during the festivities so this was the first time MJ and I could go together.
It was an interesting street faire, typical offerings of street food, a bunch of music stages throughout the streets that were closed and an eclectic mix of street vendors offering everything from jewelry to extravagant hats to full body costumes. I didn’t end up buying anything but it was certainly fun to visit an event that was practically on our doorstep. I then spent about an hour up on the roof deck reading before heading back to our condo and taking a two hour nap thanks to that cold I had been trying all day to ignore I had. The rest of the evening was surrendered to the cold, curled up on the couch watching Bones.
My cold is now mostly gone and this week at work I’m striving to wrap up some major projects as I prepare for a month of traveling weekends!
May 7 – 14 – Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, Hungary
May 21 – 23 – Bat Mitzvah for MJ’s relative in Miami, Florida
May 27 – 30 – Visiting my sister and her husband in Edmonton, Alberta
It should be an interesting month, I’ve never traveled this much in such a short span before. Sunday the 15th is the only weekend day I’ll be at home for the whole day and that’s the same day as Bay to Breakers, which I’m not participating in but is a HUGE event for the whole city. I’ll probably wake up early to catch the beginning of it which starts just a few blocks from our building.
Now back to laundry and the rest of the preparation I need to do before this trip to Budapest, I leave on Saturday morning.
Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 9:58
Yorkshire tea!!!
I’m from Yorkshire, and it’s fab! Oh and the Jaffa cakes too, especially dunked into the tea!