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There was a fleet show in San Francisco on Oct6-7 as part of the Fleet week. The navy's blue-angels were the highlight of the day and judging by the huge huge huge crowd gathered, I must say the most awaited too. And boy! Were they good!!

One of my friend remarked: "They risk their lives for our entertainment". How true. One split-second hesitation/miscalculation and..I don't even wanna get to what would happen. It is scary.

Well, on a lighter note, we walked past Ghirardelli again ;-) But couldn't stop by coz of the long long queue! Had some amazing cup-cakes though, from a shop famous exclusively for them.

We went to take the SFO tour ride but..yep..the queue again!

So we went to get pictures of the crooked street :-) and to reach the street, we walked 4 blocks uphill!!! gosh.. what roads..It was a miracle that I didn't faint out of exhaustion!!! [I am def going to start going to the gym regularly again :-D]

And oh..there were a few firsts-for-me that day! [Yep, that's right, revealing only a little, which does make people curious. 2 of my friends do that to me and god, do I get irritated!!!!!! Its pay-back time!!!]

Here are some pictures of the air show and the crooked street and some flowers again! :-) Enjoy!!!!!



Topsy-turvy! The red-bull in action



Love is in the air!



Whooosh!!


Split up


The blue-angels in action


All together


The crooked street from the top


Wonder how they drive out there!


Road-kill???? :-)


Sea-lions at Pier-39!!


Pleasant ain't it??

Something's Fishy!

That's as much 'creative' writing I am able to squeeze in these days...[the title of the post I mean]
Sheesh! I really do love writing. Which does remind me of how my friend still loves telling other friends/colleagues the incredibly fascinating tale of
"how-vinutha-used-to-write-the-english-exam-paper -for-a-full-3 hours [and oh she took extra sheets too!!!]"

Allow me to justify here! Who could resist the "Explain in no more than 10[or was it 20? or was there a limit even??] your perspective on Subashini's life in the story "Subashini"?" or "Write a brief summary on King Lear and was he justified in his treatment of his 3 daughters?" Not me..i loved them!!!

And I must say, getting top scores in language subjects always made me happy! How exactly the teacher even deciphered my hand-writing..hmm...That's a topic I wont elaborate on [at least for now!]

A little retrospect on the subject matter at hand, and hey..I came up with the following 3 laws [which holds true for my alarmingly diminishing write-ups on the blog] and oh!! Remember..you heard them here first!!! ;-) ]:
1. When you feel like writing..just do. If that moment passes..well..you are pretty much left with a blank notepad/word doc and well that's pretty blank ain't it!

2. The more you postpone writing about that silly incident you saw today, that awesome trek you had, that hilarious movie you saw, the unexpected turns in life, the moments of sadness..ok...ok..i stop...but you get the point! Now, where was I?? oh yes... the more time you postpone it, the more averse you become to capture it in words.
[This law may very well be misunderstood to sound like a corollary to Law no 1. But no it isn't]

3. If you start posting pictures, you always have something to post. So you end up writing less.
Justification to Law no 3: Apparently, a picture is worth a thousand words!!!

Hmm..strayed away hopelessly from the title didn't I?
So a combination of all the above-stated laws results in this picture account of a recent trip to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco!!! [ now you get the title?!??!??]

Self-explanatory

We took a ferry ride, which has this very informative audio tour. Seriously.

Some creative name for a red and white fleet isn't it?

This was how the weather was. Cloudy and drizzling at times too.

:-) Loved the composition of this one!

Peeping Tom??

My friend's very cute and well-behaved niece.

The ferry-ride comprises of a tour of few places of SFO and the golden gate bridge had to be one of them.

This is THE ROCK! ALCATRAZ. The audio tour at this point had some sinister music with a detailed account of a particular breakout from this prison. The 3 who escaped were never found!

And to end this, as usual, some random shots.



You can find lots of these birds everywhere. As much as I like them, it was quite annoying to see them flying all over the place.


p.s: If you are still wondering, What happened to Vinutha's usual writing style? Did she actually write this post? Let's just say she is hugely "inspired" by the immensely enjoyable accounts of a fellow-blogger she chanced upon today!
And like everything else, this will pass too!

Assorted!

View from above the clouds

Its a nice timepass to just stare outside the window in a plane..some parts reminded me of narada/demigods/gods descending to earth in movies :-)

Park in Santa-Clara

I call this the last ray of light!! ---- for the simple reason that it was taken during sunset!


Ghirardelli chocolate shop in SFO. The dark choc fudge sauce they give is just mind-blowing!
The shop has a display of the the machines used in the process of making fine chocolate from cocoa-beans. Here are a few of them..













And to end this assorted post, here are some macro shots of flowers! I can almost hear a few ppl saying "here we go again...we expected nothing less!!!"