My BFF took a "because I feel like it" day off yesterday, and we had lunch in downtown Palo Alto on University Avenue. For those of you not familiar with the Bay Area, the University related to this street is Stanford. I always enunciate with my smuggest voice, Staaaan-fooord. Yes, the famous Stanford where Chelsea Clinton, Reese Witherspoon (for a brief moment) and Tiger Woods (ditto Reese) attended.
Near University Avenue is also Sand Hill Road, which if you ever start your own tech company and need venture capital money, is the place where all the BIG VCs have offices. The offices on SH Road control more mullah than the GNP of many countries. So basically, everyone who hangs out on University is ginormously rich, the kid of someone ginormously rich, the wife/girlfriend of someone ginormously rich, or the next co-founders of a future ginormously rich start-up like Yahoo and Google.
Don't get me wrong, although I snark at the ginormously rich people at times, I really do love 'em cause I hope to be ginormously rich one day myself. It's the capitalistic American dream, and Silicon Valley is one of the meccas of that dream. I figure the longer I hang out where the ginormously rich hang out all that mojo will seep into my being. For now, we pretend like we are already there.
We ate lunch at a sushi restaurant and then took a stroll down the Ave in order to gaze, oogle, and of course, burn some calories. It was gorgeous today, about 70 degrees with gorgeous Russell Crowe blue (eyes) sky. The thing about University avenue I do like is that although you know almost everyone there is loaded, most people "look" like everyday folks. The richies here tend to dress down more than up say like in LA, NY, or Miami. The reason for this is that Silicon Valley is flooded with geeks, and geeks are not fashionable AT ALL. Smart when it comes to all that tech stuff, but completely illiterate when it comes to fashion. If you do see a stylish geek, his wife/girlfriend is dressing him or he is gay. For the most part, the female geeks do better on their own because, let's face it, women are always born with more style genes than guys.
Anyway, we ended up chatting at a new dessert place that was absolutely scrumptous. ALL the desserts in the glass casings looked like little pieces of art. The place is called Satura Cakes and it was simply divine. If you are in the area or are coming to visit the Bay Area this summer, you must absolutely check this place out. MUST! I had a slice of the Caramelized Banana tart, and my mouth was in heaven. Gurl, living large sure is yummy!
