a southbay weekend
I don’t spend much time in the south bay anymore… after spending most of my life growing up there but when friends come home and visit or parents need help with their computers, then there’s not way out of heading home. Steve was in town all weekend for a wedding so we did our usual business: Sushi Maru (which moved to Milpitas - how sad), bowling, donuts, tennis, in-n-out, golf and jamba juice.
Sushi Maru has sadly moved from their Sunnyvale location to way out in Milpitas where you can’t escape the faint stench of treated water and marshland. For anyone who says differently about Milpitas, it’s only because they’ve gotten used to the stench. And for anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, take the 237 to 880 interchange on a summer afternoon with your windows down. Mmmmmm… watch out for that urge to vomit. =) Luckily, the sushi at Maru was still good.
So bowling in Cupertino has always been associated with Homestead Lanes on the edge of Cupertino and Sunnyvale where the carpeting, seating, balls have all been kept in their original vintage condition since … the 1970s it seems. Now with the Vallco Fashion Park coming out of its incredibly long hibernation with the new AMC Cupertino Theaters, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they had turned to the old Tilt arcade into a 21 and over only bowling alley - Strike Cupertino. I have to admit that I was pretty impressed and didn’t expect the friendly staff, the relatively cheap prices, the enormous bar or the DJ in the back. If only this was all around when I was still living in Cupertino. After a couple hours of sucking it hard (I blame it on the balls that have the finger holes too close that weren’t spin friendly), we hit up Donut Wheel for absolutely the best glazed donuts in the world (I’m not exagerating) - freshly cooked up, warm, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside… oh baby… my mouth waters just thinking about it.
Steve and I played tennis the next day in the scorching sun, cooled off at In-n-out, tee’ed up for golf on Sunday and finished it all off with some afternoon Jamba Juice at the Oaks. On top of all of that, I finished reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman which is a really good book. Highly recommended. I was super sore on Monday but it was all in good fun - I would say, a perfect summer weekend in the suburbs. Haha.
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