berkeley, again

when i woke up on tuesday, i still felt a tad bit groggy, but mostly all better. i was pretty psyched to actually get out and do stuff since i had been such a lameass the day before. the first order of business was getting some food, and for that, we headed to pancake circus, the diveyest restaurant ever. i had the veggie benedict; english muffin, scrambled eggs, avocado, tomato and onion, all smothered in this insanely buttery hollandaise.
after breakfast, we decided to go back towards berkeley and hit up the meditation center that we skipped out on the night before. the drive there was pretty freaking amazing. we drove through sonoma to marin county, which is super pretty, and ended up at spirit rock which is even prettier. we weren't allowed past the gates because there was a silent retreat going on, but we climbed the beautiful hills instead and looked down at the whole thing from way up high. it was very hobbit-esque. check it out.



















after we departed the shire, we headed back to berkeley for some dinner with my uncle. we ate at this thai place cha-am , which i must say, serves some seriously boombangin thai. i ordered a simple dish of shrimp and scallops with veggies, garlic-chili sauce and brown rice, but it was perfectly done and i didn't stop eating it until i was uncomfortably full.
my uncle invited us back to his place for some pastries, tea and desert wine. i convinced him to give me this test to find out whether i'm "androgynous" (he's a psychologist). basically, the idea is that a someone who is healthy and balnced has equal high amounts of masculine and feminine qualities. i scored abnormally high on both the masculine and feminine parts. so basically, i'm a genius, but i've kind of had a hunch about that for a while...

love always