Day 34-36: July 5th

Jing Chen writes:

It was the Fourth of July weekend. We were originally planning to sail down to Santa Cruz and spend the weekends there. Unfortunately the plan fell through and we were here in San Francisco ><

Tim kindly invited us to a party at Treasure Island. We grilled and chatted with many different people. Pin and I went on a floating mattress looking thing and paddled around the water. It was fun :)

We went to the Golden Gate Park the next day and enjoyed the music by the Golden Gate Band. The park was gorgeous and I am definitely going back. I really want to visit de Young Museum as well as the Academy of Science (Third Wednesday of the month is the free day!). Only if the wind was not so strong and the sun was not so shy, it would be even better.

This Monday, Corinna kindly offered us free sailing lessons! She is a friend of Lorraine’s and a very experienced sailing instructor. She even has the captains’ license. The weather was not suitable for us to go out, so we had a crash course on sailing and learnt a 2 day course in 1+ hour. Though that was A LOT of information, it really got me excited about sailing. Later on, we went to a boat docked at the harbor to identify some of the parts we learnt in class. Corinna also shared with us some of her interesting sailing stories. I can’t wait to get into the water now!