Flying Angels and Sneaky Devils

On Sunday I went with a friend to San Francisco for Fleet Week. She enjoys her exercise like me, so we walked down The Embarcadero to Pier 39. Although we got started a bit late (we cleaned her house after a party the night before) we managed to time it almost perfectly and got there about an hour before the Blue Angels performed.

I had seen them perform several years ago, but barely remembered anything of those shows, so I was super psyched to see them this weekend. Basically I was willing to miss every other performer as long as I did not miss the Blue Angels.

It was a fantastic show, with the jets showing off awesome tricks and maneuvers. Surprisingly we managed to snag spots right next to the water, so we had something to look at even when they were flying around other places. The jets were flying so fast that I only managed to catch one good picture of them (while close-up). Since my camera is slow at taking pictures, I usually managed only to get pictures of the blue sky.

Afterwards, we went to get shakes (in my case, just good ole' ice cream) and then headed back to Berkeley for the Maroon 5/One Republic concert. We drove up to the hill to 'watch' it, although it's more like hear it because trees block the view. The pretty colorful lights still could be seen ^.^

We brought along a bottle of wine and the three of us finished about half of it. The concert finished at about 10-10:30 ish, so we decided to go and explore Berkeley. Since one of my friends had never been inside the stadium, we snuck inside and had some fun in the basement portion. The funniest thing was seeing how one of my friends totally couldn't be quiet to save her life.

We did climb some gates to get inside, but when we started hearing some clanging/walking sounds we decided it would be in our best interests to scram. Once we found a way out (not the same way we took in of course), we had another hurdle to deal with. The friend that couldn't be quiet...also was afraid of heights. Unfortunately, the way out required a little fall over a wall with some trash cans to help us climb up the side we were on.

It took a good several minutes to convince her to climb it. Although when she finally DID fall, it was only about a foot...LOL. It was still early after that, so we checked out the rumor of a skate park near Clark Kerr. Surprisingly, it was almost a fully completed park, but it had chains everywhere. There definitely were people who 'used' the skate-park because we found game equipment, like a foosball table and croquet, and a skateboard (without the wheels) that people had used to slide down the walls (it was already scraped up).

It was a lot of fun to climb and run and slide around, but I definitely wasn't dressed for it. I would have taken pictures but I didn't bring along the camera and my phone camera can't take pictures in the dark.