Time Machine of Lurve...

I hope to all that come here (all 2 or 3 of you) that you've had a wonderful V-Day this week or to the rest of you a kick-ass Thursday.

I am fully aware of the nefarious intentions of the manufactured greeting card "industry" but dammit I love my holidays. Although I am a steadfast believer that one really should show love and appreciation to those who are important in our lives everyday not just once a year. The boyfriend and I have been together happily for almost 7 years but make an effort to celebrate VD in our own way. Flowers, cards and chocolate are rarely bought and given but rather we indulge in a day of fun activities we would both enjoy. 

This year we spent the day together being San Francisco tourists. After having a quick breakfast snack at Starbucks we drove to Pier 39. I convinced the boyfriend to finally visit the temporary location of Musee Mecanique at Pier 45 and be terrified of the gigantic, looming "Laughing Sal" automaton near the entrance. I had not been at the Musee in years and there were some new stereograph machines I had not seen before. But the fact that some machines now demand 50¢ kept us from depleting our laundry money. If any of you are interested on peeping at salacious, turn-of-the-century girlie pics I encourage you to find "Naughty Marietta"; it's totally worth it's 25¢ of old-timey porn. After the Musee, we headed to Pier 33 to the Hornblower Cruises to spend the day on Alcatraz Island. It was apparent that the romantic lure of the decaying island prison was evident as our boat was filled with other couples eager to hear gruesome prison life stories from grizzled old men. There was a lot of walking around since we choose to take the storytelling tour of the outside grounds and the audio walking tour of the prison interior. There is way to much to tell right now but I did managed to get a few good pics of the tours. When we had our fill of prison life we decided to go "make a break for it" to Pier 39 for a late quick lunch before heading home. I was thankful that there was decent calamari and chips for a good price at "Chowders" and Dave was satisfied with chili in a bread bowl at "Boudin".

We spent the rest of the day with our dogs at home avoiding the dinner madness at the restaurants and made a meal for ourselves. Including a deliciously, cute heart-shaped sourdough round (it made a great garlic bread) bought at previously mentioned "Boudin" bakery. 

Besides, VD festivities I wanted to inform you handful of readers that I finally got around to uploading a crap load of pics from the past year. Pictures that I should of blogged about but didn't because of this or that; which explains the title of this particular post. 

The "mouse house" will be on a journey of sorts. A time traveling journey in the next week or so as we go back into mid 2007 and visit events that I meant to share with you in the first place. So sit back and relax gentle reader as we travel... back to the future, dun, dun, ddduuuunnnn! (*snort*).

shuff, shuff, shhuuuffff (the sound of a upside-down rice bowl moving on the ground)

Su