Palo Alto breakfast, then the city!

It is a beautiful morning in sunny Palo Alto! The rest of our drive yesterday was increasingly more spectacular, by way of views. We kept trying to find scenic vistas (but getting lost, including taking an exit to a town called Meadow Vista, which in actual fact was NOT a vista of a meadow, but a town with a gas station and some cute homes), but finally found this incredible expanse in Sonoma:

The greens were even more vibrant than this in person, it was hard to capture on film and like an idiot I didn't take my nice camera out for it. This is, in fact, NOT Bliss of Windows acclaim, though it certainly looks pretty close, no? Especially considering ours wasn't doctored at all!

The Bliss photo was taken nearby, but apparently we lucked out stumbling across the field that we did, because Bliss now actually looks like this:

So I think we won out.

We arrived at about 7pm last night and settled into Kristine's parents' house, which is AMAZING. Kristine met us there and oriented us to our digs, and then we three went to get sushi at Fuki Sushi. The rolls were FANTASTIC, pretty traditional and super delicious. Sadly I was so excited to catch up with Kristine that I forgot photos, but let me remedy that with breakfast:

We're enjoying eggs of various styles and SOURDOUGH BREAD (ahmagad) at Crepevine.

Next on the agenda is the De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, and Ben & Jerry's in Haite Ashbury.