July 7th to 19th I have been spending in San Francisco Bay area. Was here on the business trip working and meeting people at the headquarters of my company. It was a lot of meetings I had to go through, had to meet about 20 different people. Also few colleagues took care of me well and took me for a few nice off work exploration events. Among others:

• Exploring streets of San Francisco and San Francisco museum of modern arts for exhibit of sculptures works by Matisse
  
• A dog walk in recreation park
• Filoli - residence, trees and rose garden
  
• Santana Row cool district and a French restaurant
• The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
  
• Russian Disco event at Avalon club
• Pacific Ocean by Santa Cruz, wharf area with nice Italian restaurant
• Solitude walk and dinner in the restricted recreation area of Pacific Ocean bay area
  

Also I had a chance to visit US friend Dina and her dad in UC Davis.

Here is photo report.