A few days is more like it. We had a three day weekend this past one, and we intended to enjoy it. Friday we drove to San Francisco to see a couple events. But first we had brunch at Hebivore, a vegan restaurant with three bay area locations. When you think vegan you might think “no thanks”, but this place would convince you. The food is really good and totally animal free. Check out the menu on their web site with an open mind. Then we went over to the DeYoung Museum to see the Andy Warhol exhibit. It was excellent, and you have two more weeks to see it before it leaves. We arrived just as a free docent tour was starting, so we got a thorough explanations of his life, his motivations, and his work. Then we walked back through to see some of the items we had skipped and to linger over others. There were some seven or eight rooms (from memory) filled with artwork and other items from different periods in his life and/or focusing on different subjects for his art. Also included were some of his experimental films. There was a lot more to him that that Campbells Soup Can painting! Much more after the jump…

Then we met up with our Santa Cruz pals Larry and Robin and had dinner at the other San Francisco Herbivore location. After that went to a play, Woody Allen’s The Floating Light Bulb. He wrote it back in the 1960s but it has endured. It was a good drama, well performed, with some humor in it too. Then we drove the couple hours back to our own city. It had been a really nice, fun day. But that was about to change. We got home around midnight or a little after, and discovered that my cell phone was missing. We had looked at it to see the time after the play so we only had a couple hours to account for where it could have been. After a thorough search around our car, garage, and house, it was nowhere to be found. So, we decided to go back to San Francisco the next day and look for it. Yes, two more hours driving. Each direction.

So the next morning we dropped one car off for a scheduled servicing and headed back to San Fran in the other car. Would we find the phone or would it be a wild duck chase? First we stopped outside the theater, where our friends car was parked, and checked the street, the gutter, and the sidewalk where we had walked. Nope. Then we drove over to where we were dropped at our car. We checked the gutter, under the cars now parked there, the sidewalk, a pizza place at the general location. And whata ya know? Nope. No phone. Well, that was everywhere we had been except inside the theater. But that wasn’t open yet and we couldn’t tell when anyone would get there except there was a performance that evening. So we potentially had five or six hours to wait. Well, you gotta eat, right? Herbivore was right around the corner so we ate there again, three times in two days (two different locations). And it was good again. That helped.

We decided to go a few places to kill the day and maybe even make it fun. We went to Scrap, where Petra always finds some very cheap, cool art and other supplies and other stuff too. Then we went to a junkyard place where they sold “recycled” just-about-anything. Including art glass, which Petra will use for an art project. We still had some time to kill so we went back to check and see if the theater was open yet. Nope. So we went into a nearby coffee shop, The Coffee Bar, and had a refreshing drink. Then we took a walk and found a couple bookstores and a strange indie-only record store. Really, nothing on a major label! Anyway, then we walked back to the theater and there were finally some people there. They let us look for the phone but again no luck. We had looked everywhere. So we drove the long drive back home. Other than that phone thing, we had a good time.

The next day we went to see a local (Davis, CA) performance of the play Jesus Christ Superstar, which was entertaining, and then Petra’s parents invited us to dinner so we went to Petra’s favorite restaurant (and one of mine) Todo Un Poco. They had a large, eclectic menu and everything I have tried has been either very good or really great. I highly recommend it! But now the weekend was over and still no phone. Guess I will have to file a claim, since I did have insurance on it. I’m still bummed out about it, there was a memory card in it with 350 pictures, only some of which I still have elsewhere. But nothing critical, so it’s not the end of the world. At least we did some fun stuff this weekend!