THIS is what you call summery weather for President's day weekend. I wanted to get out and do something out of the ordinary for us in the city (our usual being record stores and Japantown) so I decided to do the take-a-touristy-picture-in-front-of-the-bridge trip. It was the PERFECT weather for doing it.
(Be jealous.)
But half the joy of going to the city is just driving through and looking at all the people and buildings, and this is a blessing but mostly a curse, because ever since then I have been secretly dreaming of being a city girl and moving to the city and being around young people again and doing exciting things and getting out of suburbia and cookie cutter this and that and the usual chain restaurants and boringness. Ennui, ennui!!
So yesterday I went window shopping in Walnut Creek at Urban Outfitters and Free People - I wanted to go to those indie/hipster stores since they were a little out of the ordinary and the most eccentric you get without going through the tunnel to Berkeley. I discovered that Urban isn't really my thing (except they DID have these stars/galaxy shirts that I was secretly in love with), and Free People had the most gorgeous and well-made cream lace long skirt I have ever touched in my life (you had to touch it to get the full experience) and also it is a boutique, which I didn't know beforehand (and I feel all special now because I've learned a lot about boutiques from buying lolita) but in the end I only bought stuff from H&M because let's face it, I spend too much money mail-ordering from Japan to spend much on anything else. But Walnut Creek was very peaceful, and it was a beautiful day out and I even ran down the street for half a block because my parking meter had expired 2 minutes ago and I didn't even find a ticket on my dash! Priceless. This is how I adventure.
