Now I know where flies go to die

So after staying up until 4:00 the night before, we woke up around 12:00 and went to breakfast with Anna, Mariana, and Shraz (I have no idea how to spell his name, ha!).   I love Maudies and I hope this won't discourage anyone from going there, but we got a table next to the window and there were like 50 dead flies - and some others trying to escape.  It was gross...but I still ate my delicious food b/c there were no flies in it - I promise!   Then we got to the airport and found out Mark's flight was delayed several hours...and that there was a direct flight to Oakland that had seats.  The irony is we bought a ticket for Mark in case he couldn't get back to San Jose non-reving b/c he had to be back at work.  As it turns out, his flight was later cancelled.  Ha!  So we got on the Oakland flight - I was seated in the middle which I don't usually mind except I ended up between 2 married older people.  The wife kept yelling at the husband OVER ME.  Pleasant!

Below: San Franciso's artistic way of stopping skateboarders.  So cute!

Above: Bay Bridge

Since we ended up in Oakland, we took the train into the city and had dinner with David and Tim (love those guys!) and walked around a bit before they dropped us off at the Caltrain station, then took the Caltrain back to San Jose to get the car at the airport.  On the train I was subjected to listen to awful conversation from teenagers, one of which said: "If this train, like, didn't make so many stops, we'd get there like so much faster." - DUH.  Also their friends across from us made out the entire time.    When we finally got to the tram stop that would take us to the car (yep...another mode of transportation!), I had a kind of awesome moment.  So you know when you have an idea of what a book character should look like?  This is before they ruin it by making a movie out of it...anyway, I *saw* a character I've been following for a little while now.  It was amazing - almost to a "t" what I pictured this guy to look like.  Crazy!  Too bad I didn't get a picture. 

Bonus picture: I uploaded the pic of the asian guy from my phone - however, it doesn't capture the true essence.