San Francisco, vacation days 1 and 2

I wanted to let everyone know what we've been doing in San Francisco. Yesterday was the last day of Java One, which left John and I free to do whatever we wanted. We spent the afternoon visiting the Modern Museum of Art and then headed to our new (slightly less lavish) hotel. The hotel is right on Union Square, which is basically a huge shopping district. We checked in and then went to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner. After dinner, we walked around the area and found a nice coffeeshop to relax in for a bit. Then we headed to the hotel for the night. This morning we ate breakfast in a small cafe right in the middle of Union Square, then did some shopping and left the city to go into Oakland. John had placed an order at Sweet Maria's (www.sweetmarias.com) for some green coffee beans, so we took the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to West Oakland and walked around until we found the place. The owner, Tom, showed us around the warehouse and packed us off with John's 8 pounds of coffee... hopefully the folks at the airport won't take us in for questioning! Afterwards we called a cab and went to IKEA, then called another cab (and waited an hour for it to show up, getting sunburned in the interim) and headed into Berkeley to visit a friend. We spent the day with him, saw the UC Berkeley campus and Telegraph Road (think Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, only more weird). We had Asian noodles from Slurp and authentic Italian gelato, then got back on the BART and came back into the city. Sorry to those whom we didn't call, but by the time we got back to the room, it was 11:30 pm in Kansas. Hope everyone is doing well, and we'll talk to you soon.