After golf, Grace and I had dinner plans with Kara, a friend of Grace’s from work. Rather than go all the way home, we brought our gear and cleaned up in the lovely locker rooms at Stonetree (though the Sugars were also kind enough to invite us to their home). We were ready in no time and headed back to San Francisco. After some deliberation on the type of cuisine and restaurant, we settled on one of our favorites, Luna Park, in the Mission. It was nice to catch up with Kara, who I had only met once at their holiday party last year. We had all enjoyed our meals – big thumbs up on the Mac and Cheese, though Grace astutely pointed out that shells do not count as macaroni.

Friday evening, we went down to Palo Alto to celebrate Patrick’s thesis defense at a BBQ hosted by Alicia. Patrick was one of Grace’s Stanford housemates and Snickers’ best friend at the time (actually, it is well known that Snickers was not nice to Patrick for no good reason other than he’s insane – Snickers, not Patrick). The usual suspects were in attendance, minus Angry Jones (the other housemate) and his family. Mistake #1 – I forgot my camera.

Sunday morning, we drove over the Bay Bridge for Ben and Dora’s baby shower, which was hosted by their good friends Ellen and Manny at their beautiful new home in Oakland. There were many of their family and friends in attendance. It was nice to catch up with several of our Kellogg friends we haven’t seen in a while, as well as friends of the Huangs who we’ve met at various events. I was especially delighted to meet Ryan Hayashi, who is Warren (my old roommate) and Julia’s new son. Grace had met him once before. Although I forgot my camera again (bad habit recently), Ben sent me some incriminating photos. The good news is Grace and I cleaned up on the games, as I beat the field in the baby bottle race and we both picked up prizes in baby gift bingo. Good times.