What did the astronaut say to his wife? "I need space."

Today, we took advantage of the lovely weather and headed over to Golden Gate Park. As parks go, let's just say its one of the most impressive. As it was a Saturday, there were a lot of people milling about (in a good way), running or walking their dogs. People have the most interesting dogs in Frisco; we met a really nice man with two really cute dogs, they were a lot like Winnie but had darker fur and were apparently some kind of Australian cross, whatever this means! One of them though had two different coloured eyes, just like Winnie! Very strange coincidence...

We decided to hit up the California Academy of Sciences in the park, as we had free entrance to it as part of our city pass. Being a Saturday and all it was pretty busy and there were lots of cute little kids running about everywhere. The museum was still pretty cool though, there were lots of turtles, real and fake, which greatly excited Kitty, and an underground aquarium which was fun! There was also a 'living roof', i.e. the roof was covered in grass and flowers. That was a first for us!

Our favourite bit though was the planetarium where we saw a half an hour film about earthquakes. The guy who was the live narrator was quite the comedian, and entertained us with science related jokes whilst we were waiting for the film to start.

After leaving the museum we wandered around the park for an hour or so. We wanted to check out the Japanese Tea Garden but couldn't be bothered to pay for it. Since I was last here four years ago, they've also started charging entry to the Botanical Gardens, so we bypassed that too and just wandered about.

When we got back to Hellhouse, we were knackered from all our wanderings. Angelo was on his way out to a party, and Jeff was meant to be giving him a lift. Somehow this ended up as all of us in the car and going for an adventure. After dropping Angelo off, Jeff took us on an excellent drive around the city, up to Pacific Heights to check out the huge houses, and down to the Presidio, a former military base which is now a neighbourhood of houses and home to an impressive set of buildings belonging to George Lucas' film company. We stopped and walked through some of George Lucas land and it was really very pleasant, fountains and statues and water features. Great views too.

As we drove on around the bay the views got better and better. Some were of the bridge, some of the bay, and some looked back over the city. It was a beautiful, clear evening so we could see for miles.

Eventually, we made our way back and cooked up a concoction of Italian sausage, green peppers, onions, and some tinned baked beans we had got overly excited about. Topping this off were the gluten free bagels Kitty had found in Safeway. Jeff couldn't quite believe how excited it was possible for someone to get about a bagel, but knowing Kitty had been deprived of bagels for a year I found it perfectly understandable!!

After dinner we were joined by Angelo, who kept telling us we should be over towards the Castro where there was some kind of lesbian parade taking place. Normally this would have massively intrigued us, but having eaten too much we couldn't bring ourselves to move and instead sat with Jeff discussing life, the world and the universe (mostly work and various recent deaths) until the early hours of the morning.