Did you even know that you can take a candle-lit evening gondola ride around Lake Merritt? You absolutely can and it's absolutely heavenly.
Today Erin, Kristin, Ellen, Jordan and I partook of the festivities of the Lake Merritt Radio Regatta. The event was put on by Oaklandish, so the place was rank with hipsters, but in the best way. It should be known that I have always been a fan of the hipster. Even of the track bike riding and skateboard trick performing persuasion. Needless to say, there was eye candy galore. If you stripped them of their hipster dress up clothes, most of these kids would probably not be that attractive, but that is the beauty of hipsterdom - the democracy of it all. Well, part of the beauty. I love fawning over their outfits and puzzling out how to sew all of these exciting wardrobe choices.
In any case, our 2:30 gondola appointment did not disappoint. The morning's cold dreariness cleared up just as the regatta was starting. We even got the masked Italian gondolier who sang us a song in Italian and told us about Shakespeare and the history of Venezia. And it was free. The entire thing was a massive free fest. There was free food, free booze, free gondola rides, and free pontoon tours, and we partook of all of them.
They even had a little four square tournament going on. It was incredible to watch grown men easily in their forties (although the average age was probably early-mid twenties) play serious sports with eight year old girls - and losing! That little girl in pink was good! Boys are funny like that. It almost doesn't matter what sport it is, if there is competition to be had, they are utterly absorbed.
Finally, we topped things off by a short visit to Erin/Kristin/Ellen's apt, which I hadn't seen, and we planned our first art night for this Friday. Yay for getting out and doing stuff! I'm looking forward to doing a little alteration and maybe recycling some of this massive stack of free tee-shirts into something wearable.
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