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I love crepes. Dessert crepes with plenty of ice cream. My all-time favorite has to be Belly Good Cafe & Crepes in J-Town. Sooooo good! I'm a regular customer, sad to say, so they like to make little designs on the crepes if they're not to busy. Try and tell me this isn't friggin' adorable!

I even posted a request on Facebook, asking for good crepe places in San Francisco, and spent a day sampling. They were all okay, but nothing beats Belly Good, in my opinion.

On that note, Jeff's friend, Eric started a cafe of his own. Could you imagine my euphoria when I found out that they would be selling crepes!? Of course, Jeff and I dropped by on occasion and helped out with what little we could. I did a lot of painting -proud smirk-. I painted the bathroom door (Jeff finished off the hard parts, though), the banister at the entrance, and the numbers above the door. Wooo! Team work! Jeff brought in a stream of friends to help patronize the grand opening. It was great, especially since the grand opening happened to fall on one of the hottest days we've had in a while. So much fun, I'm tellin' ya!

Here's a video of me trying an experimental crepe. I went into the kitchen and basically said that they could throw whatever they wanted into the crepe and I'd eat it.

I ended up with a bunch of fruit... includeing watermelon with vanilla ice cream.
Interesting and good.

A bunch of people showed up, which was perfect. In fact, even when they weren't open yet and we were just cleaning, painting, and setting things up, people were peaking in to see what was going on. I wish I had a video of them putting up the steel signs at the front of the building, but I was eating another crepe and couldn't spare a hand.

Here are a few shots of the inside:

Eric invested a lot of time, money, and effort into his cafe and I'm really hoping that it does well. I'm already seeing very positive feedback on Yelp (oh yes, I Yelp.) And he's a really outgoing guy. He'd invite in random, curious, pedestrians to take a look around during the renovations and he's always asking for the customers' opinions. That's good business right there.

Plus, the crepes are BOMB. I'm still a bigger fan of Belly Good, but it's so far away... lol.

Kidnapping Is Great Fun!

Yesterday, Jeff and I decided to give the girls a break from the indoors and take them to J-Town. I've been working most Saturdays and haven't been able to take them anywhere. :( So, after Jeff got off work, we headed out.

We had crepes, took the girls to Sanrio, had garlic fries, bought them little presents... the whole sha-bang! We even hit the Purikura booths. Is that right? They're basically picture booths on acid trips... which makes them that much more fun! Should I be mentioning small children and acid in the same entry? Anyway!

^This one is Jeff's favorite.^

Here's a video of Jeff and Nikki decorating the pictures:



Mariel got bored waiting, so I let her loose on the props.

When she came out of the booth, Nikki wanted a piece of the action:

They had fun, which was all I wanted. Plus, they were completely worn out by the time we headed home. lol. They were knocked out in the back seat.

After we dropped off Mariel and Nikki, Jeff and I drove off again. This time, we met up some friends at Century Daly City to wath Watchmen. It was pretty good. Possibly too much glowing, blue penis, but whatever. The plot was solid. I might get the DVD. My favorite line was definitley when Rorschach said, "I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me." So badass. I loved it.

That was my Saturday. Today was spent indoors for the most part, aside from grocery shopping and a quick round at the mall. Jeff had homework to do, so he was on the computer most of the day. Luckily, he got most of it done. Such a good boy. Haha.

Hope everybody enjoyed their weekend!