Old Missouri! Fair Missouri!

Curt and I attended a University of Missouri alum get-together Saturday. It was the first alumni function we have attended. We have checked out the Bay Cats and they are a bunch of old farts.

The get-together was at this great place called Vino Venue. It is a wine tasting place where you pour your own tastes. You buy a "debit card" and insert into the station, the spouts light up and you pick the one you want. The amount is deducted from your card. It was very cool.
They provided some great appetizers, too. So wine and yummy appetizers. I was a happy person. And all ages were there. People in their 20s, 30s and a tad older. But really no old farts.
We decided to drive to the city. Getting to the dang toll booth took forever. Once you get passed the toll booth it is easy to drive over the bridge to get to the city. We were sitting there for at least a half an hour inching along. So we finally got onto the bridge. ... I was a little worried about parking. We found many parking spots nearby easily. But they all seemed to be 30-minute meters. And it was just after 4 and the meters run until 6. So we would have to pump the meter too many times. We drove around a little more. Found a 1-hour meter--that was much more doable. We stuck a quarter in and 5 minutes showed up. We were like, wha???? We looked at the pricing on the meter. A quarter for 5 minutes!! That is insane!!!! But parking in a garage would have been much more. So luckily we keep lots of quarters in the car for laundry. So we loaded up. And Curt went back once to feed the meter.
We met some great people at the function. Sounds like this group is pretty active. So I am sure we will be attending more outings with them. At the event they had a Missouri pamphlet. Supposedly Missouri invented "Homecoming." Some dude told alumni to "come home" for some big game years and years ago. And it has stuck. I am still skeptical about whether that school really invented it. You can't believe everything you read in print.
Afterward we headed to North Beach for dinner. Drove around looking for a parking spot. We finally found a lot and parked there. Then we still had to walk a bit. And of course I was wearing new shoes--what better way to break in a pair of shoes than walking around San Francisco? We had a good dinner at a nice restaurant. We had to sit outside--but it was covered by a tent and heat was pumped in. So that worked for me. The restaurant even had a little cat running around. Poor thing was missing its tail. The little kitty even came up to me for a pat.
Meow!