I had a fantastic 3-day weekend.  As part of our stay-cation, we visited de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on Sunday.  They have a special exhibition called “Birth of Impressionism” featuring paintings by Monet, Renoir, and Degas.  They were paintings borrowed from the famous Musee d’Orsay in Paris so it was as if Paris had visited me this weekend. In September they’ll be continuing it with works by Cezanne and Van Gogh so we got an individual membership, which will cover both visits at a discount.  Anyone wanna go to the Legion of Honor/Palace of Fine Arts with me?  I can get into that museum and bring a guest with me for free!

We also went up to the top of the tower of the museum (9 floors above the park) for a spectacular 360-degree view of the park and the city.

We were blessed with some really nice weather and got to take a nice stroll in the park to see the turtles in the pond people swing dancing out by the bridge.

Afterward, we stopped at San Tung for lunch and got some tasty tasty spicy crispy chicken wings and dumplings.  Yum.

On Monday, I got in a 3-mile run and came home to a spam and eggs breakfast.  We spent the rest of the day lounging around at home watching all the episodes of a short-lived sci-fi show called “Firefly”, made some lasagna for us to eat this week, and managed to get in spurts of cleaning.

For dinner, we grilled some chicken wings and corn out in the pool area.  The Masayas even joined us.  With the house clean, the laundry done and folded, and lunch packed for tomorrow, I feel ready to go to work for my 4-day work week.  Having a vacation at home is not bad.