everybody loves a parade

This somewhat disappointing picture should give you an idea of how much I could see at the Giant's World Series Parade on Wednesday.  While it may have been awesome waving from a cable car, I was surrounded by a group of angry little league dads yelling at their diabolical sons, "There's nothing to see yet goddammit!" and shoved by drunk people elbowing their way to the front "Aaaay sweetheart, remember me?" By the time the players were rolling by in their cable cars, I couldn't see a thing. Maybe caught a glimpse of Jonathan Sanchez's eyebrows.  Much better pictures here and here and here. Enjoy!

best seats in the house

oh happy day!

Last night the Giants won the World Series for the first time since 1954.  Walking down the streets, high-fiving everyone, it reminded me of being in DC when Obama won the presidency in 2008.  Oh, the collective joy! The exhuberance soon got out of hand however, ie. "SF Giants win World Series after 56 years, riots follow" Mimoun saw some delirious fans, or regular hooligans, light a matress on fire at the corner of 22nd and Mission. We ended the night eating left over halloween chocolates and watching Edgar Renteria's game winning home run over and over and over and over...



photo graciously provided by this random website



SF pumpkins

In anticipation of the Giants winning the world series, lucy, della, and I had an awesome day carving pumpkins. how orange, how festive! It poured non stop in kentfield, so we had a cosy pumpkin seed munching, movie watching kind of a day.

turkey and moo-cows joined in the fun. lucy provided an awesome former award-winning-radio-show-playlist




eek! the Rangers



   

Meanwhile libby went g-d overboard on cuteness...

and it rained, and rained, and rained 

baseball

Mimoun and I rode over to Rosamunde on mission last night to watch the Giants game and eat dinner... at the same time! what fun.  While oggling Brian Wilson's absurd beard, we enjoyed scintillating conversation about the differences between regular season and post season games - characters' mental state, pitching rotation, batting order, etc.  One thing I love about baseball is watching a player's performance actually increase under pressure, like a closing pitcher's last strike outs. Anywaaaay... here's what we ate. It looks good in the pictures, but its a so-so restaurant, heads up.  




Rumor has it he put rogaine on his face...ha! what a nut. photo from here