Lincoln Park

Today there was a storm warning for the heaviest rainfall this year, what that translated to was just one day of medium but constant rain! We used this as an excuse to walk around lake merrit get completely soaked and then eat Chinese soup and a lot of beer. We walked through Chinatown which is actually much cooler than San Franciscos Chinatown with the only residents being Chinese and visited a restaurant that only had Chinese written outside! They had a great lunch special with loads of dishes so we each got a large bowl of soup full of noodles and dumplings. It was way too much food for us so put us in a bit of a coma. Then we walked a few blocks to the district full of breweries - there are at least 20 cool craft beer brewers in oakland alone with lots of cool different beers, we went to a few of those and started to get quite tipsy so tried curing ourselves with some deep fried pickles.

After the deep fried pickle madness we met up with Evi and Hugo in a very cool lakeside restaurant that looked pretty fancy. Luckily it was happy hour so we got gourmet burgers, beer and oysters for almost the same price as we spent at fast food places! To recover from the fanciness we then went to a super dark dive bar and drank American whisky and meszcal Seamus thought it still wasn't as good as Scottish whisky :D but he is a snob

Then we went home and Seamus's stomach had given up after the brutal onslaught of coffee, foods and alcohol so spent most of the night being violently sick. He was better in the morning thoughRead more